Introduction to the PCC

1. The PCC stands for Press complaints comission
2. It was charged solely with the administraion of the code, because of the Editorial case of practice the PCC has no powers to impose the penalties. It administers the system of self regulation for the press, deals with complaints framed within terms of the ECP (editorial case of practice) about the editorial content of newspapers, magazines and the conduct of their journalists.
3. All members of the press have a duty to maintain the highest professional standards. The Code, which includes the public interest exceptions below, sets the benchmark for those ethical standards, protecting both the rights of the individual and the public's right to know.

List of codes of practice:
-Accuracy
-Opportunity to reply
-Privacy
-Harassment
-Intrusion into grief or shock
-Children
-Children in sex cases
-Hospitals
-Reporting of Crime
-Clandestine devices and subterfuge
-Victims of sexual assault
-Discrimination
-Financial journalism
-Confidential sources
-Witness payments in criminal trials
-Payment to criminals