Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross's lewd calls to actor Andrew Sachs were a "deplorable intrusion with no editorial justification", the BBC Trust has said.
Chairman Sir Michael Lyons supported Ross's 12-week suspension, adding that no further action would be taken.
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Steps taken to ensure there is no repeat of the incident include creating a register of high-risk programmes.
BBC trustee Richard Tait said three main failures were made - in exercising editorial control; in following established compliance systems and a failure of judgment in taking editorial decisions.
"Proper editorial control might have prevented the material ever being recorded in the first place and, had the established compliance systems been followed and the correct editorial judgement applied, the material would not have been broadcast," he added.
Mr Tait said the offence of the original broadcast was compounded by Russell Brand's appearance on Chris Moyles's Radio 1 show on 21 October, when the pair talked about the incident.
He said this discussion, in itself, was also in breach of editorial guidelines in respect of privacy, offence and the fact it was broadcast at a time when children were likely to be listening.
Mr Tait added that the trust considered Brand's "unacceptable, so-called apology" broadcast on 25 October to have "exacerbated the intrusion into privacy and the offence".
However, he said the trust, which acts as the BBC's watchdog, considered the corporation's response to the controversy to be appropriate.
Brand quit his Radio 2 show after the incident and Radio 2 station boss Lesley Douglas also left, along with one of her executives.
(BBC)
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