Audiovisual Media Law, Minor Protection and Age Verification
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In force.
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 32/1, added to Law No. 97/2013 by Law No. 30/2023, requires that a program which may harm a child's physical, mental, or moral development be broadcast only in a way that ensures children do not normally hear or see it, by choosing the broadcast time, applying age verification tools, or other technical measures, with the strictest measures required for the most harmful content such as violence and pornography.
The same article bars processing a child's personal data collected by an audiovisual media service provider for commercial purposes such as direct marketing, profiling, or behavioural advertising, and separately requires a video-sharing platform provider to take measures protecting children from harmful programs, user-generated videos, and commercial communications, and protecting the general public from content that incites violence or hatred or constitutes a criminal offence such as child pornography, racism, or xenophobia.
The Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) may fine a video-sharing platform provider ALL 200,000 to ALL 2,000,000 for a violation of these obligations, an administrative rather than criminal sanction.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Penalty structure
Administrative fine under Art. 133(9/1), added by Law No. 30/2023, for a video sharing platform provider's violation of the obligations in Arts. 30/1, 32, and 32/1; Art. 133's own framing treats these as administrative offences distinct from a criminal offence.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 6 September 2026
- Minimum
- 200,000
- Currency
- ALL
- Fixed cap
- 2,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Audiovisual Media Authority (Autoriteti i Mediave Audiovizive, AMA)
What it reaches
Covered services
Audiovisual media service providers (broadcast and on-demand) and video-sharing platform providers under Albanian jurisdiction
When LexLint raises it
publishes_adult_content
Read the law
Law No. 97/2013 On the Audiovisual Media in the Republic of Albania
as amended, official text published by the Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA)