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Serves under-18s, in Switzerland

Federal Act on the Protection of Minors in Film and Video Games, Age Classification and Verification Regimefrom a date not yet set3 lines

Federal Act on the Protection of Minors in Film and Video Games (JSFVG), SR 446.2, Art. 1-19 · Read the law's page

  • This Act is only partly in force: Articles 1-5, 9-13, 15-19, 29, 32, 37-39 and 41 (scope and the branch-code mechanism) took effect on , but Articles 6-8, which set the age-labelling, content-descriptor and age-verification requirements, are not in force and have no announced date.
  • Applies to film and video game industry actors and to providers of platform services on which users upload and retrieve films or video games, in each case within their economic activity.
  • If an industry branch's age-classification code is declared binding on you although you are not a member of the branch organisation that wrote it, apply it: a binding code must set at least five age tiers, with the highest reserved for adults, and cover age-labelling and age-verification rules.

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  1. Revision 1, : the entry was first published.

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