Television Content Rating Systems - Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukrainan TV content rating was adopted on September 15, in 2003. It somewhat looks like Poland's former ratings. Listed below are designations of Ukraine classification:

• Green Circle: this program does not have age restrictions. To it category related family films, comedies, cartoons, some action and mystical films, drama films, concerts.
• Yellow Triangle: children must view this program with parents. In it program there are fragments, which unsuitable for children. It is: action films, some comedies and dramas, horror films. Programs with this rating usually broadcast in the evening (6 pm–5 am).
• Red Square: this program is only for adult viewers. In it there are scenes with nudity, drug use, or violence. It can be some action films with big violence level and excessive bloodshed, horrors, mystical films. These programs broadcast late at night (11 pm–5 am). But if there is a red square in the lower right corner of the screen, it is not necessarily a dangerous film for children to view.

These designations must be in the lower right corner. Green circle can be shown for only the first three minutes, but other marks must be present over the time of this programs.