Vatican City State

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Vatican City State has no adult-content age-verification law, social-media minor-access restriction, app-store age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code, and no reported case addresses any of these questions.

Its supplementary penal-law statute, Legge N. VIII of 11 July 2013, criminalises producing, trading, distributing, or possessing child sexual abuse material (articles 4(d), 10-11), including by telematic means, but that prohibition binds the person who produces or handles the material rather than requiring a publisher or platform to verify a user's age or gate access to content by age; because its medium-neutral definition of the prohibited representation reaches a simulated or computer-generated depiction of a minor as well as a photograph of a real one, it is recorded under this corpus's ai topic instead.

No Vatican City State statute imposes an age-verification, age-gating, or minor-access duty on a service provider.