Brinsley Dresden

1 month ago | mondaq.com | Rebecca Moore |Brinsley Dresden |Alex Meloy |Helen Hart

From 1 October 2025, any ads for "less healthy" foodswill be banned from TV before 9pm and there will be a complete banonline. The Communications Act 2003 (as amended by the Health andCare Act 2022) sets out that the restrictions will apply to advertsfor "identifiable" less healthy food or drink products. "Identifiable" means if persons in the UK couldreasonably be expected to be able to identify an advert as beingfor a less healthy product(s).

1 month ago | lewissilkin.com | Rebecca Moore |Brinsley Dresden |Alex Meloy |Helen Hart

From 1 October 2025, any ads for "less healthy" foods will be banned from TV before 9pm and there will be a complete ban online.  The Communications Act 2003 (as amended by the Health and Care Act 2022) sets out that the restrictions will apply to adverts for "identifiable" less healthy food or drink products. "Identifiable" means if persons in the UK could reasonably be expected to be able to identify an advert as being for a less healthy product(s).

Nov 11, 2024 | mondaq.com | Brinsley Dresden

Ofcom renews co-regulatory arrangements with ASA Ofcom has officially renewed its co-regulatory arrangement with the Advertising Standards Authority. This means that the ASA will continue to oversee the day-to-day regulation of broadcast, on-demand programme services and video-sharing platform advertising until October 2034.

Aug 9, 2024 | lexology.com | Geraint Lloyd-Taylor |Brinsley Dresden |Helen Hart

In 2022 the CMA began reviewing consumer protection in the UK green heating and insulation sector. It focused on products such as heat pumps; home solar; insulation; biomass boilers and hydrogen-ready boilers. The CMA identified concerns that some businesses were making misleading claims about products and some were engaging in greenwashing. It also had concerns about limited transparency of price information.

Jul 9, 2024 | lexology.com | Brinsley Dresden |Geraint Lloyd-Taylor

Welcome to the latest edition of our Ads & Brands Law Digest, covering legal and regulatory developments from the last few weeks relevant to advertising, marketing and brand-owning businesses. As usual, for each item we provide a succinct summary accompanied by a link to the full text of the relevant official source or our own report.