Functions

The National Television Council shall ensure the correct operation of television services and for that purpose, it shall oversee and control the content of their broadcasting in accordance with the rules in this law.

Correct operation of these services shall be understood to be the ongoing respect, through programming, for the nation’s moral and cultural values, the dignity of individuals, protection of the family, pluralism, democracy, peace, environmental protection and the spiritual and intellectual education of children and youths within such framework of values.

The Constitution and the law surrender the mission of ensuring the correct operation of television services to the National Television Council through the oversight and control of the content of their broadcasts;

Article 12(l) of the law imposes upon the National Television Council the obligation to dictate general rules to effectively prevent the broadcasting of programs with excessive violence, cruelty, pornography or participation of children or adolescents in acts in violation of morality or good custom;

Article 33 of the law authorizes the National Television Council to sanction infringements of the law and rules dictated by the Council in the exercise of its attributions; and Article 40-bis of the law offers television viewers a recourse to participate in the task of ensuring the correct operation of televised broadcasts through reporting to the National Television Council.