Liechtenstein

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

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Liechtenstein has no dedicated adult-content age-verification statute, no social-media minor-access-restriction statute, and no app-store or device-level age-verification statute of the kind this topic otherwise tracks. Its Mediengesetz (MedienG) binds a video-sharing-platform provider to take appropriate measures protecting minors from content that could impair their physical, mental, or moral development, transposing EU Directive 2010/13/EU (AVMSD) Article 28b through EEA incorporation.

Separately, the general Kinder- und Jugendgesetz (KJG) binds a commercial provider of, or enabler of access to, a product or service (including a media product or service) that could endanger a minor, to take suitable and reasonable measures keeping a minor of the relevant age group from obtaining access. Neither provision reaches an adult-content-specific age-verification duty or a social-media account-age minimum.

Instruments on record

Mediengesetz Art. 82c, Video-Sharing Platform Protection Duties

In force

MedienG, LGBl. 2005 Nr. 250, Art. 82c, inserted by LGBl. 2023 Nr. 448

Effective 2025-05-01 · Applies to private

A video-sharing-platform provider, defined as a person who operates a video-sharing platform service, must take appropriate measures to protect minors from broadcasts, user-generated videos, and audiovisual commercial communication that could impair their physical, mental, or moral development.

It must also take appropriate measures to protect the general public from content whose dissemination is itself a criminal offense, including incitement to a terrorist act and child-pornography offenses under the Strafgesetzbuch. Disputes between users and a video-sharing-platform provider over compliance are mediated by Liechtenstein's regulatory authority (Art. 82d).

The Act's own enumerated list of administrative fines (Art. 93) does not separately name a breach of Art. 82c's protection duties themselves. The Act was passed by the Landtag on 5 October 2023 and published as LGBl. 2023 Nr. 448 on 6 December 2023. It came into force only on 1 May 2025, the day Liechtenstein's Kundmachung of EEA Joint Committee Decision No. 337/2022 fixed as its Inkrafttreten for the Principality (LGBl. 2025 Nr. 214); it transposes Article 28b of Directive 2010/13/EU.

Enforcement body

Regulierungsbehörde (Regulatory Authority), which mediates disputes over Art. 82c compliance between users and video-sharing-platform providers under Art. 82d.

Source: Full text of law

Kinder- und Jugendgesetz Arts. 67-68, Child and Youth Protection for Products and Services

In force

KJG, LGBl. 2008 Nr. 29, Arts. 67-68

Effective 2009-02-01 · Applies to private

A person who offers or presents a product or service, including a media product or service, that could endanger a minor's development or safety, and an entrepreneur who enables access to such a product or service, must take suitable and reasonable measures ensuring that minors of the relevant age group do not obtain access.

Audio-visual media products and services, in particular films and entertainment software, may only be offered to, or possessed and consumed by, a minor consistent with a minimum-age classification that a commercial provider must apply and clearly display, following reference-body recommendations designated by the Office for Social Services.

The Act's own general child-protection framework is expressly subordinate, for media specifically, to the media legislation's own child-protection provisions (the Mediengesetz above); it operates as the residual, non-media-specific duty for a product or service more broadly. The Kinder- und Jugendgesetz was adopted by the Landtag on 10 December 2008, published as LGBl.

2009 Nr. 29 on 28 January 2009, and its own Art. 110 fixes 1 February 2009 as its Inkrafttreten (subject to the referendum period lapsing unused).

Source: Full text of law