Act No. 242/2022 Coll., Protection Measures Including Age Verification for Video-Sharing Platform Services
Zakon c. 242/2022 Sb., o sluzbach platforem pro sdileni videonahravek, Sec. 7, Sec. 8 and Sec. 11
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In force since 15 September 2022.
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What this law does
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A provider of a video-sharing platform service must adopt measures protecting minors from programmes, user-uploaded videos and commercial communications capable of harming their physical, psychological or moral development, and content of that kind may not be made available so that a minor could ordinarily see or hear it; the measures must include, among others, the introduction and operation of an age-verification system for platform users confronting such content, together with easily usable content-rating tools, parental-control systems, and a transparent notice-and-complaint procedure.
The most harmful content, such as pornography or gross gratuitous violence, must be subject to the strictest access-control measures. A provider that fails to introduce these protection measures commits an administrative offence the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting may fine up to CZK 500,000.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Penalty structure
Section 11(3) and (4)(c) sets a fine of up to CZK 500,000 for a video-sharing-platform provider's failure to introduce the protection measures required by Section 8(1) to (3), which includes the age-verification-system duty of Section 8(3)(f).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 6 September 2026
- Currency
- CZK
- Fixed cap
- 500,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Rada pro rozhlasove a televizni vysilani (Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting)
What it reaches
Covered services
Providers of video-sharing platform services established or deemed established in Czechia, defined as an information-society service whose main purpose, or an essential function of which, is to make available to the public, over electronic communications networks, programmes or user-generated videos for which the platform provider bears no editorial responsibility.
Obligation class
Age verification
Verification methods
Self declaration, Third party service, Device signal
When LexLint raises it
publishes_adult_contentoperates_social_platform
Read the law
zakonyprolidi.cz, consolidated text of Act No. 242/2022 Coll.