Independent Media Commission Law, Minor Protection and Age Verification
Law No. 04/L-044 on the Independent Media Commission, arts. 30, 33, 49
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In force since 20 April 2012.
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 33 of Law No. 04/L-044 on the Independent Media Commission requires the Independent Media Commission (KPM) to take appropriate measures to ensure that broadcasters under its jurisdiction carry no program that could seriously harm a minor's physical, mental or moral development, particularly a program with pornographic content or extreme violence, and to secure the same protection for other potentially harmful programs by choosing the broadcast time or by a technical measure, with an unencoded broadcast of such material required to carry an acoustic warning or a visual symbol for its whole duration.
A paid audiovisual media service that could seriously harm a minor's development is to be made available only in a way that ensures a minor will not, in normal circumstances, see or hear it.
Breach of this or any other license condition or code of conduct draws a KPM sanction under Article 30: a written warning, or one or more of an order to broadcast the nature and extent of the breach, an order to broadcast a correction or apology, a fine of not less than EUR 1,000 and not more than EUR 100,000, suspension of part or all of the licensee's programming for a set period, a change to the license conditions, or non-renewal or revocation of the broadcast license, with the last three not available against the public broadcaster.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Penalty structure
Art. 30(1.3) fine for breach of a broadcast license condition, code of conduct, or other legal act under this law, one of several sanctions KPM may impose alongside or instead of the fine (correction order, suspension, license modification or revocation); Art. 30(4) directs paid fines to the Kosovo budget.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 7 September 2026
- Minimum
- 1,000
- Currency
- EUR
- Fixed cap
- 100,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Independent Media Commission (Komisioni i Pavarur i Mediave, KPM)
What it reaches
Covered services
Audiovisual media service providers (broadcast and on-demand) licensed by the Independent Media Commission (KPM), public and private broadcasters alike
Obligation class
Age verification
When LexLint raises it
publishes_adult_content
Read the law
Official Gazette of the Republic of Kosovo (gzk.rks-gov.net)
act document page for Law No. 04/L-044, confirmed live directly (Albanian text)