Duty LXD-6207
Serves under-18s, in Bulgaria
Radio and Television Act (ZRT), Arts. 17a and 19d, Protection of Minors and Video-Sharing Platform Age Verificationsince 4 lines
Закон за радиото и телевизията (ЗРТ, Zakon za radioto i televiziyata), chl. 17a i 19d, izm. DV br. 109 ot 2020 g. · Read the law's page
- Applies to media service providers and video-sharing platform providers.
- Do not create or distribute programmes that could harm a child's physical, psychological, moral or social development (Art. 17a(1)).
- Follow the Code of Conduct the Council for Electronic Media adopts with providers, including the public broadcasters BNT and BNR, which prescribes measures such as scheduling, age-verification tools and encoding to assess, label and restrict access to harmful programmes.
- If you run a video-sharing platform, take appropriate measures, including age-verification systems, to protect children from user-generated videos and audio-visual commercial communications that could harm their development, alongside signalling, parental-control and media-literacy measures (Art. 19d).