SwitzerlandFederal Act on the Protection of Minors in Film and Video Games, Age Classification and Verification Regime
Federal Act on the Protection of Minors in Film and Video Games (JSFVG), SR 446.2, Art. 1-19
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- 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.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Federal Social Insurance Office (Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen, BSV), which reviews an industry branch's proposed age-classification code before the Federal Council decides on declaring it binding.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
None of the provisions in force on (Articles 1 to 5, 9 to 13, 15 to 19, 29, 32, 37 to 39 and 41) requires a log, a record or a retention period of any party. Article 11 letter h has the industry organization check implementation of its code by test purchases, test entries and test accounts, which is no record duty. Articles 6 to 8 are not in force.
- Kind
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What this law does
The JSFVG applies to film and video game industry actors and to providers of platform services, in each case within their economic activity, and covers the requirements for age labelling, content descriptors and age verification (Art. 4 lit. a), measures applying to platform services on which users upload and retrieve films or video games (Art. 4 lit. b), and the process for declaring an industry branch's own age-classification code binding on actors who are not members of the branch organisation that wrote it (Art. 4 lit. c, 9-19).
A binding code must set at least five age tiers, with the highest reserved for adults, and must cover age-labelling and age-verification rules. The Federal Assembly passed the Act on .
Only Articles 1-5, 9-13, 15-19, 29, 32, 37-39 and 41, covering the definitions, scope, and the branch-code binding-declaration mechanism, entered into force on ; the remaining provisions, including Articles 6-8, which set out the age-labelling, content-descriptor and age-verification requirements directly, are left to be brought into force at a later time. The provisions this entry describes come into force on different days, and not all of them have commenced.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.
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