Law on Media, Video-Sharing Platform and Child-Protection Duties

Article 18 defines a provider of a video-sharing platform as a person supplying a service, whether a website or another form, built on a publicly accessible information repository under the provider's control and client software giving access to it.

Article 23(1)(3) obliges that provider to verify a user's age before granting access to information that may harm a child's physical, mental or moral development, and to make available a parental-control system to protect children from such information. Article 42 separately restricts a linear or on-demand audiovisual program rated for an audience of at least 16 to the period between 22:00 and 06:00, and a program rated for an audience of at least 18 to the period between 24:00 and 05:00.

A provider may instead use a conditional-access system in place of those broadcast windows. Article 42 also lists the categories of content that trigger the child-protection restriction, including violence, self-harm, cruelty to animals, glorification of crime, promotion of substance abuse, profanity, gambling inducement and graphic depiction of the dead or dying.