Denmark

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-10-12

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Denmark has no adult-content age-verification statute, social-media minor-access restriction, or app-store age-verification requirement addressed to a developer or platform outside the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive framework.

Denmark's own addition to that EU baseline is sections 51a to 51c of Lov om radio- og fjernsynsvirksomhed m.v., inserted by Lov nr. 805 af 9. juni 2020 with effect from 1 July 2020, which requires a video-sharing platform provider under Danish jurisdiction to register with Radio- og tv-naevnet and comply with ministerial rules on measures to protect minors and the public from harmful content, including content depicting child sexual abuse as defined by Straffeloven section 235.

The specific measures a provider must take are set by ministerial regulation under those provisions, not by the Act itself. The digital age of consent for a minor's own personal data is addressed under the privacy topic and is not restated here.

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Instruments on record

Radio- og fjernsynsloven Sections 51a-51c, Video-Sharing Platform Minor Protection

In force

Lov om radio- og fjernsynsvirksomhed m.v., sections 51 a-51 c (Videodelingsplatformstjenester), inserted by Lov nr. 805 af 9. juni 2020

Effective 2020-07-01 · Applies to private

A provider of a video-sharing platform service under Danish jurisdiction must register with Radio- og tv-naevnet. The Culture Minister sets rules requiring such a provider to take appropriate measures to protect minors from harmful content, and rules that a minor's personal data collected or generated by the provider may not be processed for commercial purposes.

The Culture Minister separately sets rules requiring such a provider to take appropriate measures to protect the public from content that incites violence or hatred, or whose spread is a criminal offence: public incitement to terrorism, child pornography under Straffeloven section 235, or racism and xenophobia. Radio- og tv-naevnet registers providers, supervises them and prosecutes violations of the Act and of rules made under it.

Radio- og tv-naevnet may decide to stop a provider's activity, temporarily or permanently, for a gross or repeated violation.

Source: Full text of law