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Regulatory framework.

The Charter and Agreement require the BBC and the Trust to publish documents explaining the BBC's purposes, setting out its policies and priorities, and describing the remits of its services.

Accountability

The Trust is the ultimate guardian of the licence fee revenue and the public interest in the BBC. This page contains the protocols covering the ways that the BBC Trust ensures it takes full account of the views of BBC audiences, and how it reports publicly on its activities.

Our Promise To You

This document sets out how the Trust will engage with audiences.

Audience Councils

This document outlines the role, responsibilities and operations of the BBC's Audience Councils.

Annual Report and Accounts

This protocol applies to the preparation of the BBC's Annual Report and Accounts.

Compliance with statutory and non-statutory equality duties

This protocol sets out the Trust's and the BBC Executive's duties with respect to both the public sector equality duties and the BBC's own Diversity Strategy.