Denmark
National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06
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 age and parental-control measures a provider must take are set by ministerial regulation under that provision rather than by the Act itself, and that regulation's own text is not described here. 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 generally from harmful content.
The Culture Minister separately sets rules requiring such a provider to take appropriate measures to protect minors and the public from content that incites violence, hatred or terrorism, or that depicts child sexual abuse material within the meaning of Straffeloven section 235, racism or xenophobia, and bars a provider from processing a minor's personal data, collected or generated through its age or parental-control tools, for commercial purposes.
Radio- og tv-naevnet enforces the registration duty and these rules, and may order a provider to suspend its activity for a gross or repeated violation.
Source: Full text of law