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. §
Effective 2014-01-01 · 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.
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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.
Act LXXIX of 2021's own closing provisions set general commencement at the fifteenth day after promulgation, and that Act was promulgated on 23 June 2021; Act LXI of 2022's own closing provisions set general commencement, for the section establishing Section 11(1) and (1a), at the eighth day after promulgation, and that Act was promulgated on 19 December 2022.
Neither closing-provisions article states the resulting day itself, and no other located source does either, though Act LXI of 2022 separately states that its own Section 27, which later amended the already-effective Section 9(1), took effect on 1 July 2024.
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