AlbaniaAudiovisual Media Law, Minor Protection and Age Verification
In force.
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Audiovisual Media Authority (Autoriteti i Mediave Audiovizive, AMA)
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to audiovisual media service providers (broadcast and on-demand) and video-sharing platform providers under Albanian jurisdiction.
- Broadcast a programme that may harm a child's physical, mental or moral development only so that children do not normally hear or see it, by choosing the broadcast time, applying age verification tools or other technical measures; the most harmful content, such as violence and pornography, needs the strictest measures.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- Do not process a child's personal data collected by an audiovisual media service for commercial purposes such as direct marketing, profiling or behavioural advertising.NIST Privacy FrameworkCT.PO-P1
- If you run a video-sharing platform, take measures to protect children from harmful programmes, user-generated videos and commercial communications, and to protect the general public from content that incites violence or hatred or is a criminal offence such as child pornography, racism or xenophobia.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework, and in the NIST Privacy Framework, line by line beside each duty above. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Penalty structure
Administrative fine under Art. 133(9/1), added by Law No. 30/2023, for a video sharing platform provider's violation of the obligations in Arts. 30/1, 32, and 32/1; Art. 133's own framing treats these as administrative offences distinct from a criminal offence.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 200,000
- Currency
- ALL
- Fixed cap
- 2,000,000
What it reaches
Covered services
Audiovisual media service providers (broadcast and on-demand) and video-sharing platform providers under Albanian jurisdiction
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Operator establishment
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 32/1 requires age verification tools or other technical measures for programmes that may harm children, and bars commercial processing of a child's personal data; it names no log or record of the check and no retention period.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 32/1, added to Law No. 97/2013 by Law No. 30/2023, requires that a program which may harm a child's physical, mental, or moral development be broadcast only in a way that ensures children do not normally hear or see it, by choosing the broadcast time, applying age verification tools, or other technical measures, with the strictest measures required for the most harmful content such as violence and pornography.
The same article bars processing a child's personal data collected by an audiovisual media service provider for commercial purposes such as direct marketing, profiling, or behavioural advertising, and separately requires a video-sharing platform provider to take measures protecting children from harmful programs, user-generated videos, and commercial communications, and protecting the general public from content that incites violence or hatred or constitutes a criminal offence such as child pornography, racism, or xenophobia.
The Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) may fine a video-sharing platform provider ALL 200,000 to ALL 2,000,000 for a violation of these obligations, an administrative rather than criminal sanction. Article 20 of Law 30/2023 brings that Law into force fifteen days after its publication in the Official Gazette, and Law 30/2023 was published in Official Gazette no. 75 of .
When LexLint raises it
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