Kosovo

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

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Kosovo has no social-media minor-access statute, app-store age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code.

Its one age-related duty sits in Law No. 04/L-044 on the Independent Media Commission (2012), Article 33, which directs the Independent Media Commission (KPM) to ensure that a program capable of seriously harming a minor's physical, mental or moral development, particularly one with pornographic content or extreme violence, reaches minors only through scheduling or a technical measure, and separately requires a paid audiovisual media service carrying such content to be offered only in a way that ordinarily prevents a minor from seeing or hearing it.

A breach of this duty, like any breach of a broadcaster's license conditions or code of conduct, draws a KPM sanction ranging from a written warning to a fine of EUR 1,000 to EUR 100,000, program suspension, or license revocation.

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Instruments on record

Independent Media Commission Law, Minor Protection and Age Verification

In force

Law No. 04/L-044 on the Independent Media Commission, arts. 30, 33, 49

Effective 2012-04-20 · Applies to private

Article 33 of Law No. 04/L-044 on the Independent Media Commission requires the Independent Media Commission (KPM) to take appropriate measures to ensure that broadcasters under its jurisdiction carry no program that could seriously harm a minor's physical, mental or moral development, particularly a program with pornographic content or extreme violence, and to secure the same protection for other potentially harmful programs by choosing the broadcast time or by a technical measure, with an unencoded broadcast of such material required to carry an acoustic warning or a visual symbol for its whole duration.

A paid audiovisual media service that could seriously harm a minor's development is to be made available only in a way that ensures a minor will not, in normal circumstances, see or hear it.

Breach of this or any other license condition or code of conduct draws a KPM sanction under Article 30: a written warning, or one or more of an order to broadcast the nature and extent of the breach, an order to broadcast a correction or apology, a fine of not less than EUR 1,000 and not more than EUR 100,000, suspension of part or all of the licensee's programming for a set period, a change to the license conditions, or non-renewal or revocation of the broadcast license, with the last three not available against the public broadcaster.

Enforcement bodyIndependent Media Commission (Komisioni i Pavarur i Mediave, KPM)

Source: Full text of law