S.L. 350.20 Art. 1

Introduction 1.1 These Requirements as to Standards and Practice have been made by the Broadcasting Authority in virtue of article 20(3) of the Broadcasting Act, Chapter 350 of the Laws of Malta.

1.2 The regulation of crawls, captions and rolling credits is a problem that has been bothering regulators for quite some time and not pertaining to local broadcasting but also to many countries. Credits scroll vary quickly sometimes at speeds that sighted viewers can hardly follow. There is an increasing tendency in television advertising to produce visually enigmatic commercials which omit the verbal identification of the product.