Publishes adult content, in North Macedonia

Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, arts. 144-v, 144-g and 144-gj, Official Gazette No. 184/2013 as amended · Read the law's page

• Applies to video-sharing platform providers under the jurisdiction of North Macedonia as Article 144-a sets it: among other links, a provider established there or whose parent undertaking is established there, and, when its parent is not established in an EU member state, a provider whose subsidiary or another undertaking of its group is established there.
• Set appropriate measures in your terms of use to protect minors from programs, user-generated videos and audiovisual commercial communications that may harm their physical, mental or moral development (Articles 144-v(1) and 144-g(1)).
• Establish and operate systems that verify the age of the platform's users with respect to content that may impair a minor's physical, mental or moral development (Article 144-g(5)).
• Provide parental control systems under the control of the end user for such content (Article 144-g(5)).
• Place a warning at the start of each program, user-generated video or commercial communication that may impair a minor's development, and show a sign that it is unsuitable for minors for its whole duration (Article 144-g(3)).
• Apply the strictest measures to protect minors from the most harmful content, such as excessive violence and pornography (Article 144-gj(1)).
• Do not process the personal data of minors collected or generated in applying these measures for commercial purposes such as direct marketing, profiling and analysis, or behavioral advertising (Article 144-g(6)).

Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, arts. 50 and 50-a, Official Gazette No. 184/2013 as amended · Read the law's page

• Applies to providers of on-demand audiovisual media services under the jurisdiction of North Macedonia (Articles 46 and 50(1)), and, for Article 50(3), to audiovisual media service providers generally.
• Take the strictest technical measures to ensure that minors are protected from the most harmful content, such as excessive violence and pornography (Article 50(1)).
• Make other programs that could harm a minor's physical, mental or moral development available in a way that minors cannot ordinarily see or hear them (Article 50(3)).
• Apply the technical measures and procedures the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services prescribes for these cases (Article 50(6)).
• Do not process the personal data of minors collected, generated or obtained in applying these measures for commercial purposes such as direct marketing, profiling and analysis, or behavioral advertising (Article 50-a).

Criminal Code, OG No. 37/1996, art. 193-a · Read the law's page

• Do not produce, transmit, offer, or otherwise make available child pornography, including a realistic image depicting a minor, or an adult who looks like a minor, in an explicit sexual position or engaged in an explicit sexual act, whether or not a real child was involved in producing it.
• Do not acquire or possess such material.
• Committing this offense through a computer system or another mass-communication medium raises the minimum prison term to eight years.