Greece

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. For the protection of minors, the most harmful content is subject to the strictest access-control measures, under Article 32 paragraph 6.

Those measures include, as the case requires, systems that verify the age of platform users, so that minors cannot reach content that may harm their physical, psychological or moral development. They include, as the case requires, parental-control systems for the same purpose.

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.

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Government bill Apagorefsi chrisis epigrammikon ypiresion koinonikis diktyosis apo anilikous, filed 09/10/2026

Applies to private

The bill adds Article 4A to Law 5099/2024, which prohibits access to online social-networking services provided by online platforms to minors who have not completed their fifteenth year of age. For that purpose the bill says that the age-verification functionality of the digital document repository under Law 4954/2022, or the KidsWallet application, may be used. The bill treats 1 January as the date of birth of everyone born in the same calendar year.

Article 5 of the bill designates the National Council for Radio and Television and the Hellenic Data Protection Authority as competent authorities. Those authorities are competent to supervise the application of Article 4A and have the powers of paragraph 2 of Article 11. Under Article 6 of the bill, its force begins on 1 January 2027. The bill applies subject to the adoption of an EU regulation on the same matter, on which it ceases to apply of right. The Minister of State filed the government bill in the Hellenic Parliament on 9 October 2026.

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