FranceArrêté du 26 février 2025 désignant les services établis dans un autre État membre de l'Union européenne soumis aux articles 10 et 10-1 de la loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 (Ministerial order of 26 February 2025 designating services established in another EU member state subject to the age verification regime)
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In force since 6 June 2025.
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
As of 15 July 2026.
What this law does
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Extends the LCEN articles 10 and 10-1 age verification and blocking regime to named pornographic websites and video sharing platforms established in other EU member states, including Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube (Aylo group) and xHamster (Hammy Media Ltd). Signed 26 February 2025, published in the Journal officiel on 6 March 2025, and applicable three months after publication, from 6 June 2025.
Some designated platforms deployed age verification, while the Aylo sites voluntarily blocked access from France in protest rather than comply.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Arcom; ministère de la culture and ministère chargé du numérique
Litigation
- Court
- Conseil d'État
- Docket
- Conseil d'État, 5e chambre, 15 juillet 2025, n° 505472 (Sté Hammy Media Ltd)
- Posture
- The Paris administrative court's interim relief judge suspended the order on 16 June 2025 after a challenge from Hammy Media Ltd (xHamster). On 15 July 2025 the Conseil d'État set aside that suspension and rejected the request to suspend the order, finding no urgency shown, and restored the age verification obligation with immediate effect. Aylo, which had voluntarily blocked its French sites in June 2025 in protest, reblocked them immediately after the ruling. Separately, on 16 June 2026 the Court of Justice of the EU ruled in joined cases C-188/24 WebGroup Czech Republic and NKL Associates and C-190/24 Coyote System, on a reference from the Conseil d'État concerning the prior 2020 regime, that the e-Commerce Directive's country of origin principle does not prevent a member state from imposing targeted, proportionate age verification requirements on pornographic services established in another member state, removing the main EU law challenge to the French regime.
What it reaches
Covered services
17 named pornographic websites and video sharing platforms established in other EU member states.
When LexLint raises it
publishes_adult_content
Read the law
official ministerial order (arrêté), published in the Journal officiel via Légifrance
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