Having consulted the DCMS, we will be raising our fees for the first time in seven years on 1 January 2015.  We have not increased our fees since 2007. This is equivalent to a 19% reduction in real terms in the cost of BBFC services over that period. We sustained these savings by improving the efficiency of our systems and reducing our operating costs, and at the same time we have vastly improved our turnaround times. 

To maintain and improve these levels of service, we will make small, sub-inflation annual increases starting in 2015, with the aim of minimising the impact on film and video industries. The model we will use for our statutory work is RPI minus 1%. Using the September 2014 RPI figure of 2.3%, as published by the Office for National Statistics, the fees will therefore rise by 1.3% on 1 January 2015. 

We will also be changing our tariff for non-statutory work and for other services. You can find a full breakdown in the table below, and we have also detailed it here.

Please note that these new charges will affect all submissions for which the media item is delivered on or after 1 January 2015.

We will review this annual fee increase formula after three years.