
Tabula rasa: “Brahma beer: it has the power to refresh your very thoughts!” Chilling thought, that. “Self-administered alcoholic lobotomy is a good thing.” (Enjoy in moderation.)
Governo apresenta PL para restringir publicidade de bebidas alcoólicas na TV: “Government presents bill to restrict TV advertising of alcoholic beverages.”
The controversial part: “Alcoholic beverages” would now be defined to include beer.
If I were an advertising executive, this would scare the pants right off me.
Tits and beer: forcing Brazilian creativity to function outside these parameters (before 9 p.m.) is Stalinism!
On the Brazilian “beer wars” and the astonishing crudity of Brazilian beer advertising and beer-themed infotainment — I am a career keg-swilling ass-ogler myself, mind you (they say there is a dossier out there somewhere, confirming this), but in front of the children? — see also
- “The Great Brazilian Brewski Wars”: The Veja Beef and Nassif’s Disbelief, Continued
- Sudsy Soap Grope: “Débora Shows the World Her Golden Globos as Titty-Bar Explodes!”
When I first arrived in São Paulo, one of the things that struck me right off the bat was that you could buy hard liquor in gas stations. That seemed like an awfully bad idea.
Henrique Costa writes it up for the Observatório do Direito à Comunicação.
A iniciativa do governo federal de pedir urgência na tramitação do Projeto de Lei 2733/08 e a sua possível aprovação nas próximas semanas deve encerrar uma definição curiosa do setor publicitário brasileiro. Aprovada em 1996, a Lei 9294 passou a definir o que, na prática, era considerado bebida alcoólica ou não para efeito de propaganda. Estabelecia então a chamada escala Gay Lussac de teor alcoólico em 13 graus, o que excluía cervejas, vinhos e bebidas “ice” da restrição à publicidade que as bebidas destiladas eram obrigadas a respeitar, das 6 às 21h.
The federal government’s initiative in requesting fast-track treatment for Bill 2,733/08, and its eventual approval in the next few weeks would close a curious definitional loophole in the law. Approved in 1996, Law 9,924 would be amended to define what and what is not considered an alcoholic beverage for the purposes of regulating advertising. At the time, the so-called 13-degree Gay Lussac scale was used, which exempted beer, wine and “ice” drinks from the ban on advertising that distilled beverages were obliged to respect between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Em novembro de 2005, a Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa) publicou a consulta pública com a proposta de regulamento da propaganda de bebidas alcoólicas, tendo por base a Lei 9294/96 e o Código Brasileiro de Auto-Regulamentação Publicitária. Agora, o PL 2733 pretende mudar essa história. O texto produzido pelo Ministério da Saúde e pela Secretaria Nacional Anti-Drogas reduz para 0,5 grau Gay Lussac o que deve ser considerada bebida alcoólica. Cervejas, vinhos e “ices”, passariam, portanto, para efeitos legais, a ser o que todos já sabem, bebidas alcoólicas. A ironia, nesse caso, é inevitável, mas existe entre os setores envolvidos não só uma infinidade de interpretações como também discrepâncias sobre a eficácia da medida que, em última instância, pretende colocar limites sobre a publicidade, um setor que movimenta por volta de R$ 30 bilhões por ano.
In November 2005, the national public health agency (Anvisa) held a public consultation on a proposal to regulate advertising of alcoholic beverages, based on Law 9,294/96 and the Brazilian Code of Advertising Self-Regulation. PL 2,733 is meant to change that history. The text produced by the Ministry of Health and the National Anti-Drugs Secretary reduce the cutoff point for “alcoholic beverages” to 0.5 degrees on the Gay Lussac scale. Beer, wine and “ices” would therefore be deemed alcoholic beverages for legal purposes. The irony in this case is unavoidable, but the sectors involved have endless interpretations and disagreements about the measure, which, after all, means to put limits on advertising — a R$30 billion-a-year industry.
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