Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo, Articles 225 and 232 (Child Pornography, Including Computer-Generated and Non-Existent-Child Images)
Code No. 06/L-074 Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo, arts. 225(8), 232
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In force since 14 April 2019.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not produce child pornography, or use or involve a child in creating or producing a live sexual exhibition; this reaches any photograph, film, video or image, whether of a real child or computer-generated, including a realistic depiction of a non-existent child engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit conduct.
- Do not sell, distribute, promote, display, transmit, offer or make available child pornography, and do not procure for yourself or another, or possess it; an attempt to commit any of these acts is itself punishable.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Art. 232 punishes producing child pornography, or using or involving a child in creating or producing a live sexual exhibition, by five (5) to fifteen (15) years' imprisonment; selling, distributing, promoting, displaying, transmitting, offering or making available child pornography by three (3) to ten (10) years' imprisonment; and procuring for oneself or another, or possessing, child pornography by a fine and one (1) to five (5) years' imprisonment. An attempt to commit any of these acts is punishable.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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Article 232 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo (Code No. 06/L-074, in force since 14 April 2019) criminalizes producing child pornography, using or involving a child in creating a live sexual exhibition, by five to fifteen years' imprisonment; distributing or making it available, by three to ten years; and procuring or possessing it, by a fine and one to five years, with an attempt punishable in every case.
Article 225(8), the chapter's own definitions provision, defines "child pornography" to include any photograph, film, video, image or picture created by computer, whether created electronically, mechanically or by other means. That definition expressly extends to realistic images of a non-existent child engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit conduct, so a wholly synthetic depiction with no real child involved falls within the prohibition on the same terms as an image of a real child.
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Read the law
Official Gazette of the Republic of Kosovo (gzk.rks-gov.net)
act document page for Code No. 06/L-074, confirmed live directly (Albanian text)