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European parliament sees PEGI rating system as right way forward

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Tonie Manders, a politician who sits on the European Parliament’s Committee, has recommended to The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), that Europe should universally adopt PEGI's rating system.

Mander’s draft report on videogames acknowledges that games and can also be used "well for valuable educational purposes."

He also believes the PEGI system "provides an elegant solution to the questions raised by the evolving global games industry."

"Toine Manders has taken a very close look at the needs of a rating system for games that works well across the EU and concluded that PEGI is the right way forward both on- and off-line," said Michael Rawlinson of ELSPA.

"It is a ringing endorsement of the rating system that we in the UK were instrumental in helping to set up several years ago.

"The protection of children is of paramount important to this industry and we are delighted that a body as significant at the EU’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee fully comprehends the merits of PEGI."

In July last year, the BBFC said that PEGI rating were performed by a "couple of blokes" in a bitter war words about whose ratings system was best. (seriously)

Later than month, Ubisoft, Sega and Nintendo all backed PEGI.

By Mike Bowden

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