Slovenia
National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07
Slovenia's age-gating framework for audiovisual content and video platforms sits in the Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah (ZAvMS), which transposes the Audiovisual Media Services Directive and split out from the general Zakon o medijih (Media Act) when it was enacted in 2011.
Article 14 requires providers of audiovisual media services to classify content that could harm a child's development into age bands, including an adults-only category, and to gate that category behind a default-locked PIN or equivalent technical control that only an adult can unlock, limiting any personal data collected through that control to age-verification purposes.
Article 38.b, added by the 2021 ZAvMS-B transposition of the 2018 AVMSD amendment, requires video-sharing platform providers under Slovenian jurisdiction to adopt appropriate protective measures for children, naming an age-verification system for platform users and parental-control tools as examples. Both duties carry the same misdemeanor fine tier under Article 43.
Slovenia has no separate app-store or social-media-specific minor-access statute; a distinct social-media minor-access law, an app-store age-verification law, and a standalone age-appropriate design code were not located.
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Instruments on record
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, alongside a published complaint-handling process for users. 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) |
Source: Full text of law
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 2011-11-16 · Applies to both
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) |
Source: Full text of law