Republic of the CongoChild Protection Law, Media Duty to Protect Children from Harmful Content
In force since .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- Applies to media reaching children, including audiovisual programming, video clubs, internet sites, advertising and other publications; a child is anyone under 18 who has not otherwise reached majority by special provision.
- Do not disseminate information that could compromise a child's development (art. 38).
- Protect children against pornography, harmful information and scenes of violence disseminated through video clubs, internet sites, advertising and other documents that could harm their harmonious development, and protect childhood in audiovisual programming (art. 38).
- You need not use any particular age-verification method: the law names none.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
Media reaching children, including audiovisual broadcast programming, video clubs, internet sites, advertising, and other publications
Obligation class
Prohibition
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 38 forbids media to disseminate information that could compromise a child's development and requires them to protect children from pornography and violent scenes on video clubs, internet sites and advertising. It names no age check and no log, record or retention rule for one; article 81, on keeping the archives concerning delinquent children confidential, concerns court records and is not an operator duty.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Loi n°4-2010 defines a child as any human being under eighteen who has not otherwise reached majority by special provision (article premier). Article 38 gives the child a right of access to diversified and objective information and prohibits media from disseminating information that could compromise the child's development.
The article requires media to promote children's books, to protect childhood in audiovisual programming, and to protect the child against pornography, harmful information, and scenes of violence disseminated through video clubs, internet sites, advertising, and other documents that could harm the child's harmonious development. No age-verification mechanism or enforcement body specific to this duty appears in the law's text.
Article 109 makes a breach of article 38 punishable by a fine of 500,000 to 1,500,000 CFA francs, with imprisonment of one to twelve months on a repeat offense.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.
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