Audiovisual Media Law, Minor Protection and Age Verification
In forceArticle 32/1, added to Law No. 97/2013 by Law No. 30/2023, requires that a program which may harm a child's physical, mental, or moral development be broadcast only in a way that ensures children do not normally hear or see it, by choosing the broadcast time, applying age verification tools, or other technical measures, with the strictest measures required for the most harmful content such as violence and pornography.
The same article bars processing a child's personal data collected by an audiovisual media service provider for commercial purposes such as direct marketing, profiling, or behavioural advertising, and separately requires a video-sharing platform provider to take measures protecting children from harmful programs, user-generated videos, and commercial communications, and protecting the general public from content that incites violence or hatred or constitutes a criminal offence such as child pornography, racism, or xenophobia.
The Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) may fine a video-sharing platform provider ALL 200,000 to ALL 2,000,000 for a violation of these obligations, an administrative rather than criminal sanction.
| Enforcement body | Audiovisual Media Authority (Autoriteti i Mediave Audiovizive, AMA) |
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