The Royal Charter on self-regulation of the press is a United Kingdom

royal charter A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, but s ...

approved in 2013. The

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set her seal on the document at a meeting of the Privy Council after the failure of two High Court actions by Pressbof to prevent it. The operation of the Charter comes under two Acts of Parliament, the

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and the

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. The Charter creates the

Press Recognition Panel The Press Recognition Panel (PRP) was created on 3 November 2014 by the Royal Charter on self-regulation of the press. The PRP was established following the Leveson Inquiry (2011–2012), a judicial public inquiry chaired by Lord Justice Leves ...

(PRP) as a corporation to carry out activities relating to the recognition of press regulators. In a last-minute change the government decided that the system would not come into effect until a year after the PRP was established, taking the process beyond the 2015 general election. In October 2016

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became the UK's first approved press regulator after its application for recognition under the Royal Charter was granted.

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"Final" version of Royal CharterGovernment website
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last minute amendments
Mass media complaints authorities Self-regulatory organisations in the United Kingdom Self-regulation {{UK-poli-stub

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