Azerbaijan

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Azerbaijan has no adult-content age-verification statute, no social-media minor-access restriction currently in force, no app-store age-verification requirement, and no age-appropriate design code binding a general-purpose online service.

The closest existing instrument is the Law on Protection of Children from Harmful Information, Law No. 1310-VQ (30 October 2018), a content-classification regime of 19 articles across five chapters: it defines the kinds of information harmful to children, some barred from circulation among children outright and some restricted by age group (Art. 4); requires a producer or distributor to classify every information product by age category before its circulation in Azerbaijan, either independently or through a state-registered expert (Art. 5.3); assigns one of six age categories running from universal use up to a complete bar on circulation among children (Arts. 5-6); requires the classification to be marked on the product and its packaging (Art. 7); restricts broadcast timing for the older categories (Art. 9); and requires administrative, technical, or software measures to stop children obtaining a product whose circulation among them is barred (Art. 16).

Violations draw administrative fines of 500 to 1,000 manat for individuals, 1,500 to 2,500 manat for officials, and 3,000 to 4,000 manat for legal entities.

This is a general content-rating regime reaching all information products, broadcast, print, games, cultural events, and internet-distributed material alike, rather than a duty specific to adult content, a social media platform, an app store, or a service's design, so it is not recorded as an instrument under any of this topic's four registered families.

Separately, the Milli Majlis passed, in its third and final reading on 30 June 2026, new articles for the Law on Information, Informatization and Protection of Information that would bar a person under sixteen from creating an individual digital account on a social network platform the government designates, require the provider to verify a declared age through a sequence of technical checks including bank-card, email, and mobile-number verification before account creation, place a sixteen-to-eighteen-year-old's account content, advertising exposure, and usage hours under a legal representative's active control, oblige the provider to repeat the age check on reasonable doubt and restrict access immediately on a detected violation, and bar the provider from retaining or repurposing the personal data it collects for age verification once the check is complete.

This measure had cleared the legislature as of the date below, but its official text, presidential signature, and effective date are not confirmed, so it is reported here rather than recorded as a landed instrument.