Comoros

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Comoros has no social-media minor-access statute, no age-appropriate design code, and no app-store or device-level age-verification duty.

The one gating duty found binds private internet-access providers rather than a platform or a device maker: Chapter 4 of the 2020 Penal Code requires a cybercafé operator to identify users before granting internet access, bars a minor under eighteen from a cybercafé unless accompanied by an adult authorized by a parent or guardian, and limits a minor's access there to exclude pornographic, violent, racist, or degrading websites; it separately requires every internet-access provider to inform subscribers of, and offer, a technical means to filter or select the services their subscribers reach.

A general criminal offense of facilitating a minor's access to pornographic material exists in the same chapter, but binds any person rather than imposing a gating or verification duty on a service, so it is not recorded as a separate instrument here. No case law testing either provision exists.

Instruments on record

Penal Code, cybercafé and internet-access-provider minor-access restrictions

In force

Code pénal Loi n° 20-038/AU du 29 décembre 2020, promulguée par Décret n° 21-018/PR du 16 février 2021, Chapitre 4 (De la cybercriminalité), Section 5, arts. 479-482

Effective 2021-02-16 · Applies to private

Article 479 conditions access to internet service from a cybercafé on prior identification of the user, which the cybercafé operator must carry out under conditions a decree sets.

Article 480 bars a minor under eighteen from accessing a cybercafé unless accompanied by an adult authorized by the minor's parents or guardian, and limits a minor's internet access there to exclude pornographic, violent, racist, or degrading websites and, generally, any website offending human dignity or inciting lawlessness.

The same article requires every person offering online communication-service access to inform subscribers of the existence of technical means to restrict or select the services they reach, and to offer at least one such means.

Article 481 punishes an internet-access provider that does not comply with article 480's obligations with six to twelve months' imprisonment, and article 482 punishes anyone who does not comply with the information-and-filtering-tools obligation with a fine of 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 Comorian francs.

Age threshold	18
Verification methods	parental consent
Enforcement body	Ministère Public (public prosecutor), Union of the Comoros

Source: Full text of law