Regulation of Advertising to Children and Adolescents in the Czech republic and the European Union

This bachelor thesis is specialized in children´s advertising, and its regulation in the Czech Republic and the European Union. At first, in opening theoretical part, is zoomed general definition of advertising, its function in society and after that there is discussed about process of advertising communication. Other chapters are concentrated on history of regulation advertising in Czech lands, the definition of the main concepts (children and adolescents) and beside of this on characteristics kinds of advertisements which affect on children and adolescents psychologically. The second part of this bachelor thesis tries to analyze the legal and non - legal regulation of advertising and at the same time the existence directives of the European Union relating to commercials propagation. In the framework of non - legal regulation is attention paid on selected self - regulatory institutions in the Czech Republic and the European Union and their ethics Codes. The activities of these Codes are illustrated in several exemplary advertising cases that affect children and adolescents. In the final part of thesis is briefly discussed about didactic application of chosen topic