Zakon o medijih (ZMed-1, Media Act), Article 52, protection of children from seriously harmful programme content
In force
ZMed-1, 52. člen, Zakon o medijih, Uradni list RS, št. 69/2025
Effective 2025-09-27 · Applies to private
Programme content that could seriously harm the physical, mental or moral development of children, such as pornography and unjustified violence, may be offered in the media only so that children cannot normally access it. The Act gives an appropriate technical means or technical protection as an example of how to do this. The media are also barred from harming the physical, mental or moral development of children.
The rule on protecting children applies to all forms of communication addressed to the general public, including the activity of influencers, whether or not they count as media under the Act, unless the communication is exclusively private between individuals. The Act applies to audiovisual media services only on questions that the law on audiovisual media services does not regulate, unless the Act provides otherwise.
A legal person that offers such content in a way children can normally access commits a more serious offence (hujši prekršek). That offence carries a fine of 2,000 to 20,000 euros for a legal person. The Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Culture and Media supervises the application of the Act. The communications agency AKOS supervises Article 52 where it concerns radio programmes. The Act takes effect on the fifteenth day after its publication in the Uradni list. It was published in Uradni list RS number 69/2025 of 12 September 2025, so it took effect on 27 September 2025.
| Enforcement body | Inšpektorat Republike Slovenije za kulturo in medije (Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Culture and Media), with the Agencija za komunikacijska omrežja in storitve (AKOS) for radio programmes |
| Private suits | no |
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Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah (ZAvMS), Art. 14, Technical Protection of Minors from Adult Audiovisual Content
In force
Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah (ZAvMS), Uradni list RS, st. 87/11, 84/15 in 204/21, Art. 14
Effective 2022-01-12 · Applies to both
Under Article 14 as amended by ZAvMS-B (Uradni list RS No. 204/2021 of 28 December 2021), a provider of an audiovisual media service in Slovenia must classify content that could harm a child's physical, mental or moral development into one of five bands, the most restrictive being adult content covering unjustified violence and pornography.
Adult content on a non-linear service must sit behind a default-locked, PIN-code-equivalent technical control that only an adult who understands its purpose can unlock. Any personal data of a child collected through that control may be processed only to verify the user's age.
| Age threshold | 18 |
| Verification methods | parental consent |
| Enforcement body | Agencija za komunikacijska omrežja in storitve Republike Slovenije (AKOS) |
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Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah (ZAvMS), Art. 38.b, Video-Sharing Platform Protective Measures for Minors
In force
Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah (ZAvMS), Uradni list RS, st. 87/11, 84/15 in 204/21, Art. 38.b
Effective 2022-01-12 · Applies to both
A video-sharing platform provider within Slovenian jurisdiction must adopt appropriate measures to protect children from content that could harm their physical, mental or moral development. The statute names an age-verification system for platform users and a user-managed parental-control system as example measures.
The provider must also publish rules that set out how users can report breaches, how reports are handled, which measures remove unlawful content, and how complaints against those measures are handled. Data collected under these measures may be processed only to verify a user's age.
| Enforcement body | Agencija za komunikacijska omrežja in storitve Republike Slovenije (AKOS) |
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