Czechia
National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06
Czechia layers two national age-verification duties on top of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive floor described in the EU jurisdiction's own record.
Section 6a of Act No. 132/2010 Coll. on audiovisual media services on demand, inserted by Act No. 242/2022 Coll., requires a provider of an on-demand audiovisual media service to use age-verification tools or other technical measures to keep minors from ordinarily seeing or hearing a programme capable of harming their physical, psychological or moral development, such as pornography or gross gratuitous violence.
Act No. 242/2022 Coll. itself, the national transposition of the video-sharing-platform rules the 2018 AVMSD amendment added, separately requires a provider of a video-sharing platform service to introduce and operate an age-verification system for platform users confronting such content, alongside parental-control tools, a notice-and-action system, and a media-literacy obligation, enforced by the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting.
A parallel duty binds television and radio broadcasters under Act No. 231/2001 Coll. in materially the same terms. A minor's digital-consent age under the GDPR is a privacy matter and is covered in the jurisdiction's privacy record rather than here.
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Instruments on record
Act No. 132/2010 Coll., Section 6a, Age Verification for On-Demand Audiovisual Media Services
In force
Zakon c. 132/2010 Sb., o audiovizualnich medialnich sluzbach na vyzadani, Sec. 6a, as inserted by Zakon c. 242/2022 Sb., Sec. 17 point 5
Effective 2022-09-15 · Applies to private
A provider of an audiovisual media service on demand must choose suitable measures so that a programme capable of disrupting a minor's physical, psychological or moral development, such as pornography or gross gratuitous violence, cannot ordinarily be seen or heard by a minor; those measures include age-verification tools or other technical measures that prevent a minor from accessing the programme.
The provider must also give sufficient, freely and easily accessible information about the potentially harmful content a programme carries. Personal data of minors collected for this purpose may not be processed for commercial ends such as direct marketing, profiling or behaviourally targeted advertising. A breach of this duty is an administrative offence the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting may fine up to CZK 2,000,000.
| Verification methods | self declaration, third party service, device signal |
| Enforcement body | Rada pro rozhlasove a televizni vysilani (Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting) |
Source: Full text of law
Act No. 242/2022 Coll., Protection Measures Including Age Verification for Video-Sharing Platform Services
In force
Zakon c. 242/2022 Sb., o sluzbach platforem pro sdileni videonahravek, Sec. 7, Sec. 8 and Sec. 11
Effective 2022-09-15 · Applies to private
A provider of a video-sharing platform service must adopt measures protecting minors from programmes, user-uploaded videos and commercial communications capable of harming their physical, psychological or moral development, and content of that kind may not be made available so that a minor could ordinarily see or hear it; the measures must include, among others, the introduction and operation of an age-verification system for platform users confronting such content, together with easily usable content-rating tools, parental-control systems, and a transparent notice-and-complaint procedure.
The most harmful content, such as pornography or gross gratuitous violence, must be subject to the strictest access-control measures. A provider that fails to introduce these protection measures commits an administrative offence the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting may fine up to CZK 500,000.
| Verification methods | self declaration, third party service, device signal |
| Enforcement body | Rada pro rozhlasove a televizni vysilani (Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting) |
Source: Full text of law