Greece

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Greece's own age-gating addition to the EU baseline is Law 4779/2021 (FEK A' 27, 20.02.2021) Article 32, which transposes Article 28b of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (2018/1808/EU) and assigns the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR) as the competent authority for video-sharing platforms and social networks with functionally separable video content established in Greece.

No dedicated Greek adult-content age-verification statute, social-media minimum-age statute, app-store age-verification statute, or age-appropriate design code beyond this Article 32 duty has been identified. The minor's digital-consent age for information-society services is set by Law 4624/2019 read with GDPR Article 8 and is recorded in the privacy document for this jurisdiction, not here, because the duty attaches to personal data rather than to age gating of a service.

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Instruments on record

Law 4779/2021 Article 32, Video-Sharing Platform and Social Network Minor Protection Duties

In force

Law 4779/2021 (Nomos 4779/2021), FEK A' 27/20.02.2021, art. 32, transposing AVMSD art. 28b

Effective 2021-02-20 · Applies to private

Article 32 of Law 4779/2021 assigns the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR) to apply AVMSD Article 28b to video-sharing platforms and social networks established in Greece whose video content is functionally separable from the rest of the service.

The duty requires appropriate and feasible measures protecting minors from content that may impair their development, and separately protects the wider public from content inciting violence or hatred or amounting to child pornography, terrorism, xenophobia, or racism offences under EU law.

A covered provider must submit data to ESR annually under Article 32 paragraph 10, covering complaints received and resolved by category, out-of-court settlements, and the parental-control or age-verification systems and media-literacy measures adopted. ESR's competence reaches only providers established in Greece. ESR may impose sanctions for noncompliance under Article 36 of the same Law.

Enforcement bodyEthniko Symvoulio Radiotileorasis (ESR), the National Council for Radio and Television

Source: Full text of law