Sweden

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Sweden has no dedicated adult-content age-verification statute, social-media minor-access restriction, app-store age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code outside its transposition of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive.

Radio- och tv-lagen's video-sharing platform chapter requires a provider established in Sweden to take appropriate measures so that user-generated videos, TV programs, and audiovisual commercial communications with graphic depictions of violence of a realistic nature or with pornographic images are not made available in a way that creates a significant risk that children may see them, and separately to take appropriate measures against certain criminal content, including child pornography under the Criminal Code.

The chapter does not itself mandate a specific verification method such as identity or age checks, leaving the provider to choose measures appropriate to the risk.

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Instruments on record

Radio- och tv-lagen 9 a kap., Video-Sharing Platform Protection of Minors

In force

Radio- och tv-lag (2010:696) 9 a kap. 1-3 ยงยง

Effective 2020-12-01 · Applies to both

A provider of a video-sharing platform established in Sweden under the Audiovisual Media Services Directive's establishment test must take appropriate measures so that user-generated videos, TV programs, and audiovisual commercial communications carrying graphic depictions of violence of a realistic nature or pornographic images are not made available in a manner creating a significant risk that children may see them, unless justifiable for particular reasons.

Personal data collected or otherwise generated by a video-sharing platform provider to meet that requirement may not be processed for commercial purposes.

A separate duty in the same chapter requires appropriate measures against user-generated videos, TV programs, or audiovisual commercial communications whose content amounts to specified criminal offences, including unlawful threat, incitement to rebellion, agitation against a population group, child pornography under the Criminal Code, unlawful depiction of violence, or public incitement to terrorism or particularly serious crime.

Mediemyndigheten (the Swedish Media Authority) supervises compliance with these measures and may issue an order, which may carry a conditional fine, to secure compliance; the chapter does not itself specify age verification, identity checks, or another particular technical method as the required measure.

Enforcement bodyMediemyndigheten (Swedish Media Authority)

Source: Full text of law