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  • Introduction
    • Introduction
      • The aim of the Channel 4 Producers Handbook
      • What is Ofcom
      • What Content Has to Comply with the Ofcom Broadcasting Code
      • What is the Advertising Standards Authority
      • What is Phone-paid Services Authority
      • How to use the handbook
      • The Role of the Legal & Compliance Department
  • C4 Guidelines & Compliance Procedures
    • C4 Guidelines
      • Viewer Trust Guidelines
      • Factual Programme Guidelines
      • Working & Filming with Under 18's Guidelines
      • Secret Filming Guidelines
      • Hostile Filming Guidelines
      • Live Programme Guidelines
      • Fair Dealing Guidelines
      • Social Media Guidelines
      • Competition Guidelines
      • Producer Data Protection & Security Guidelines
      • Election Guidelines
      • Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Guidelines
      • Anti-Bribery Guidelines
      • Covid 19 Filming Guidelines
      • Supplier Code of Conduct
    • C4 Compliance Procedures
      • Internal Procedures for Reference Up & Compliance
      • Editorial Reference-Up
      • Speak Up Facility
  • Ofcom Broadcasting Code
    • Ofcom Broadcasting Code
      • Protecting Under 18s and Harm and Offence
      • Crime
      • Fairness
      • Privacy
      • Religion
      • Due Impartiality, Due Accuracy and Undue Prominence of Views & Opinions
      • Elections
      • Editorial Independence & Commercial References
  • Media Law
    • Media Law
      • Defamation
      • Contempt and Reporting Legal Proceedings
      • Privacy, Confidence & Data Protection
      • Copyright & Fair Dealing
      • Other Laws Affecting Broadcasting
      • Programmes Involving Criminal Activity
      • The Internet
  • E-MODULE
  • Social Media Guidelines
  • Speak Up Facility
  • C4 Compliance Procedures
    • Internal Procedures for Reference Up & Compliance
      • The Compliance Process and Role of Commissioning
      • Response to Threats of Legal Proceedings
      • Editorial Reference-up Procedure
      • Issues Requiring Reference Up
      • Areas of Potential Concern where Specific Procedures Apply
      • Complaints about Programmes, On-Demand and Online Content
      • The Compliance Role for Other Departments
    • Editorial Reference-Up
    • Speak Up Facility

Editorial Reference-Up

The Editorial Reference-Up procedure is set out as: