Luxembourg

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Luxembourg's principal age-gating duty was inserted into the loi modifiée du 27 juillet 1991 sur les médias électroniques by the loi du 26 février 2021 transposing the revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive, binding providers of audiovisual media services and providers of video-sharing platforms within Luxembourg's jurisdiction to restrict minors' access to harmful content, including through age-verification tools.

Digital Services Act Article 28, which imposes a separate platform-wide minor-protection duty, applies directly and is covered at EU level rather than restated here. No app-store-level age-verification statute, no age-appropriate design code distinct from this audiovisual framework, and no reported Luxembourg case testing either duty has been located in the sources checked.

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Instruments on record

Loi modifiée du 27 juillet 1991 sur les médias électroniques, art. 27ter et art. 28 septies (protection des mineurs / plateformes de partage de vidéos)

In force

Loi modifiée du 27 juillet 1991 sur les médias électroniques art. 27ter et art. 28 septies, tels qu'insérés par la loi du 26 février 2021 (Mémorial A n° 174 de 2021) transposant la directive (UE) 2018/1808

Applies to private

A provider of audiovisual media services must ensure that programs likely to harm minors' physical, mental or moral development are made available only under conditions that normally prevent minors from seeing or hearing them. A grand-ducal regulation sets the specific measures, which may include age-verification tools.

A provider of a video-sharing platform within Luxembourg's jurisdiction must take proportionate measures to protect minors from harmful programs, user-generated videos and audiovisual commercial communications. Those measures include systems to verify the age of users for content likely to cause such harm. Minors' personal data collected under either duty may not be processed for commercial purposes such as profiling or targeted advertising.

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