Publishes adult content, in Belgium

Dekret vom 1. März 2021 (Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft), Art. 32 · Read the law's page

• Applies to the provider of a video-sharing platform service established in the German-speaking area of Belgium, or treated as established there because a parent or subsidiary company, or another company of its group, is established there (Article 3(4)).
• Take appropriate measures to protect minors from programmes, user-generated videos and audiovisual commercial communication that could impair their physical, mental or moral development (Article 32(1), point 1).
• Set up and operate, where appropriate, systems to verify the age of the platform's users for content that could impair the physical, mental or moral development of minors (Article 32(3), point 6).
• Provide, where appropriate, parental control systems managed by the end user for that content (Article 32(3), point 8).
• Subject the most harmful content to the strictest access-control measures (Article 32(3)).
• Do not use the personal data of minors collected or obtained for age verification and parental control for commercial purposes such as direct marketing, profiling or advertising based on usage behavior (Article 32(4)).

Décret du 4 février 2021 (Communauté française), art. 2.5-2 · Read the law's page

• Applies to the provider of a video-sharing platform under the jurisdiction of the French Community.
• Take appropriate measures to protect minors from programmes and user-generated videos that could harm their physical, mental or moral development, so that minors cannot normally hear or see them (Article 2.5-2(1)).
• Set up a system to verify the age of the user and a parental control that the user controls (Article 2.5-2(2), point 4).
• Subject the most harmful content, such as pornography and gratuitous violence, to the strictest access-control measures (Article 2.5-2(5)).
• Do not use the personal data of minors collected or generated under these measures for commercial purposes such as direct marketing, profiling or behavioral advertising (Article 2.5-2(3)).

Mediadecreet, art. 176/4 · Read the law's page

• Applies to the provider of a video-sharing platform under the jurisdiction of the Flemish Community.
• Take appropriate measures to protect minors from programmes, user-generated content and commercial communication that could impair their physical, mental or moral development.
• Set up and use systems to verify the age of the platform's users for programmes, user-generated content and commercial communication that could impair the physical, mental or moral development of minors.
• Offer programmes, user-generated content and commercial communication showing pornographic images or images of gratuitous violence encrypted or under effective parental control.
• Provide parental control systems managed by the end user for that content.
• Do not process for commercial purposes the personal data of minors collected for the age verification and parental control systems.

Avant-projet de loi modifiant les dispositions du Code civil relatives à la responsabilité du fait des produits défectueux, et insérant l’article 877/1 dans le Code judiciaire · Read the law's page

• Answer for a defective product under the Civil Code provisions on liability for defective products, which the draft amends; the draft also inserts Article 877/1 into the Judicial Code.