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PEGI ratings enforcement expected to begin before Christmas

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PEGI ratings and the new labels are expected to be enforced before Christmas rolls around in the UK.

ELSPA chairman Andy Payne has said that the Video Standards Council will legally be able to start classifying games after the UK Government returns from recess, which runs from July - October 12.

"There's a whole load of things that will need to happen and they are all geared around the political process," Payne told GI.biz. "In terms of this actually becoming law, it's got to get through Parliament and that will happen but that will take time.

"Parliament is going into recess and this won't even get looked at before then. In terms of making it absolutely law, and that's the VSC taking over the legislative duties the BBFC has, that won't happen until the autumn at the earliest, and there's a whole load of things that have got to happen before that.

"In this political climate I would expect this to be going through due legal process before Christmas and I fully expect the new symbols on boxes for the big major products that are coming out in the fourth quarter."

The full interview is through the link.

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