Netherlands

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

The Netherlands has no dedicated adult-content age-verification statute, no social-media minimum-age statute, and no app-store age-verification statute beyond the EU baseline (Digital Services Act Article 28 and the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, both already covered at the EU level).

The national addition is the Mediawet 2008's content-classification and access-restriction scheme: an audiovisual media provider may only offer content capable of harming the development of a person under sixteen if it is affiliated with a Minister-recognized classification organization, and the most harmful content, expressly including pornography, must be made technically inaccessible to persons under sixteen, under the oversight of the Commissariaat voor de Media.

Chapter 3a of the same Act separately requires a video-sharing platform provider established in the Netherlands to maintain a code of conduct implementing the measures referred to in the EU directive it transposes. A minor's digital-consent age under the GDPR and the Uitvoeringswet AVG is a privacy-topic finding and is not restated here.