Hungary
National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06
Hungary has no adult-content age-verification statute, social-media minor-access restriction, or app-store age-verification duty as such; the digital consent age for processing a minor's personal data is a privacy-topic matter, already landed.
Hungary does run a content-classification and labelling regime under the Media Act: every media service provider must sort a programme into one of several age-rating categories before broadcast, and an on-demand (video-on-demand) service must display that category prominently in its catalogue and before playback.
Separately, the e-commerce act requires a service publishing content that could seriously harm a minor's development, in particular through violence or explicit sexual content, to post a warning notice and embed machine-readable identifiers recognizable by parental-control filter software; the Electronic Communications Act requires internet-access providers to publish information about the availability of such filter software to their subscribers.
Commentary reports that Act XLIX of 2024 additionally required mobile internet-access providers to offer a content-filtering service from 1 September 2025; that duty is not located in the operative text consulted here and is not asserted as fact.
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Instruments on record
Ekertv. Section 4/A, Minor-Endangering Content Warning and Filter-Software Identifier Duty
In force
2001. évi CVIII. törvény (Ekertv.), 4/A. §, as inserted by 2013. évi CCXLV. törvény 29. §
Applies to private
Section 4/A(1) provides that information published by a service provider, other than media content covered by the Press Freedom Act, that could seriously harm a minor's intellectual, spiritual, moral, or physical development, in particular by having violence or the direct, naturalistic depiction of sexuality as a defining element, may be published only together with a warning notice about the possible endangerment of minors, displayed before the content, and identifiers in the page's source code that indicate the content's category and are recognizable by filter software as defined in the Electronic Communications Act.
A Child Protection Internet Roundtable oversees compliance and supports the development and spread of filter software. The Electronic Communications Act separately requires an internet-access provider to compile and publish information about the availability of easily installable minor-protection software and to notify subscribers of it quarterly.
Source: Full text of law
Mttv. Sections 9 and 11, Programme Age-Rating Classification and On-Demand Display Duty
In force
2010. évi CLXXXV. törvény (Mttv.), 9. § és 11. §, as recast by 2021. évi LXXIX. törvény 9. § and 2022. évi LXI. törvény 23., 27. §
Applies to private
Section 9(1) requires a media service provider to sort every programme it intends to publish, other than a fixed list of exceptions such as news, political information, sports, and trailer programmes, into one of the age-rating categories the section defines before it is broadcast; Section 9(2) puts a programme viewable regardless of age into category I. Section 11(1) requires an on-demand audiovisual media service to publish a programme only in the manner its category permits, and Section 11(1a) requires the age-rating category to be displayed prominently when a programme is presented in the service's catalogue or before the user views it.
Section 9's current text was substituted by Act LXXIX of 2021, Section 9, and further modified by Act LXI of 2022, Section 27; Section 11(1a)-(1b) was inserted by Act LXI of 2022, Section 23. The stored source does not carry a promulgation date for either amending act.
Source: Full text of law