Armenia

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Armenia has no adult-content age-verification law, social-media minor-access restriction, app-store age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code.

The current Criminal Code, Law No. HO-199-N (2021, in force since 1 July 2022), Article 300 criminalises offering pornographic material to an indefinite circle of persons, or making it accessible through information or communication technologies, or advertising such material to an indefinite circle of persons (Art. 300(1)), and separately, and more heavily, criminalises creating, producing, distributing, advertising, or obtaining access to child pornography, including through information or communication technologies (Art. 300(2)); Article 202 separately criminalises using information or communication technology to offer to meet a person under 16 for a sexual purpose or to create child pornography.

None of these provisions imposes an age-verification or age-gating duty on a service that publishes adult content; distributing pornographic material to the public at all, not merely to a minor, is itself the criminalised conduct under Art. 300(1), with no statutory path by which verifying a user's age would make otherwise-prohibited distribution lawful.