Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information, Arts. 4 and 7 (Content Classification and Age-Restricted Access)
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In force since 1 February 2021.
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 4 classifies public information causing a negative effect on minors' mental or physical health or their physical, mental, spiritual or moral development. Content of an erotic nature is one of 21 enumerated categories the article lists, alongside violence, gambling promotion, self-harm, and other harmful subject matter.
The restrictions, exceptions and prohibitions this Law sets apply to all public information, including advertising, commercial audiovisual messages, trailers, trademarks, user-generated video, and public events.
Article 7 bars disseminating such information directly to minors and confines it to places minors cannot access or times they would not be using it, unless the discloser instead uses technical measures that let a person responsible for a child's upbringing control the child's exposure, among them tools intended to verify a user's age, parental-control tools, or content-filtering systems.
Content still reaching a general audience without such technical measures must instead carry an index and observe a broadcast-time band.
Index 'S' runs from 23:00 to 06:00, index 'N-14' runs from 21:00 to 06:00 for content harmful to under-14s, and index 'N-7' applies at any time for content harmful to under-7s. A provider of public computer-network (internet) access must install and operate content-filtering measures the Communications Regulatory Authority (Ryšių reguliavimo tarnyba, RRT) approves, and RRT itself supervises that duty's implementation.
A computer game's producer or distributor must separately label the game by a user age threshold under Government-set procedure. Supervision of the Law's implementation generally rests with the Inspector (Žurnalistų etikos inspektorius, the Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics). The Inspector may open administrative-offense proceedings under the Code of Administrative Offenses and impose an administrative penalty against a violator.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Inspector (Žurnalistų etikos inspektorius, the Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics) for the general regime, and the Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT) for the internet-access-provider filtering duty.
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
Creators and disseminators of public information, including online media, video-on-demand and user-generated video, subject to Lithuania's public-information law; providers of public computer-network (internet) access; and producers or distributors of computer games.
When LexLint raises it
publishes_adult_content
Read the law
Nepilnamečių apsaugos nuo neigiamo viešosios informacijos poveikio įstatymas (Nr. IX-1067)
consolidated text, INFOLEX mirror of the Seimas register