Croatia

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Croatia's Zakon o elektroničkim medijima (Electronic Media Act), Narodne novine 111/2021, in force since 22 October 2021, requires an audiovisual media, radio or electronic-publication service to withhold content likely to harm a minor's physical, mental or moral development from Croatian audiences unless it uses scheduling, age-verification tools or another technical measure to keep minors from ordinarily seeing or hearing it, per Article 24.

A provider of a video-sharing platform under Croatian jurisdiction must additionally establish and apply an age-verification system for platform users regarding content that could harm a minor's psychological, physical or moral development, alongside flagging, reporting and content-rating tools, per Article 96. A minor's digital-consent age for personal-data processing is the subject of Croatia's privacy record, not this one.

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Instruments on record

Zakon o elektroničkim medijima, Minor Protection and Video-Sharing-Platform Age Verification (Arts. 24, 96)

In force

Zakon o elektronickim medijima, Narodne novine 111/2021, cl. 24, 96

Effective 2021-10-22 · Applies to both

Article 24 forbids publishing audiovisual media service, radio programme, or electronic publication content likely to seriously harm a minor's physical, mental or moral development, and forbids publishing content that could harm that development at all unless the provider secures, through scheduling, age-verification tools, or another technical measure, that minors within the transmission's reach will not ordinarily see or hear it.

Article 96 requires a provider of a video-sharing platform under Croatian jurisdiction to take appropriate measures protecting minors from user-generated video and audiovisual commercial communications that could harm their physical, mental or moral development; for content causing the greatest harm, those measures include, among others, establishing and applying an age-verification system for platform users, alongside flagging and reporting mechanisms, functionality for users to declare whether their uploaded videos contain audiovisual commercial communications, and easy-to-use content-rating tools.

Source: Full text of law