Slovakia

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Slovakia transposed the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive's video-sharing platform protections through sections 48 to 50 of the zakon o medialnych sluzbach (Media Services Act), Act No. 264/2022 Coll., which took effect 1 August 2022.

A video-sharing platform provider must adopt appropriate measures to protect minors from content that may impair their physical, psychological, or moral development, and the measures a regulator may find suitable include a user-controlled parental-control system and an age-verification system tied to that content, alongside complaint-handling, content-flagging, and media-literacy measures.

No dedicated adult-content age-verification statute, social-media minor-access statute, or app-store age-verification statute distinct from this platform-protection regime has been located.

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Instruments on record

Media Services Act, Video-Sharing Platform Public-Protection Measures

In force

Act 264/2022 Coll. (zakon o medialnych sluzbach), ss. 48-50

Effective 2022-08-01 · Applies to both

Section 48(1)(a) requires a video-sharing platform provider to adopt appropriate measures to protect minors from programmes, user-created videos, and audiovisual commercial communications that may impair their physical, psychological, or moral development.

Section 49 lists measures the provider may take depending on the case, including embedding the protective rules in the platform's terms of use, a reporting and flagging mechanism for content covered by section 48, a complaints procedure, and media-literacy tools. Among those listed measures is a parental-control system controlled by the user. Section 49 also lists an age-verification system for users in relation to content that may impair minors' development.

Section 50 lets the regulator request data from the provider to assess whether its measures are suitable, and to request further information where the data supplied does not let the regulator make that assessment. Personal data collected under the parental-control or age-verification measures may not be processed for commercial purposes.

Enforcement bodyRada pre medialne sluzby (Council for Media Services)

Source: Full text of law