GreeceBill Prohibiting the Use of Online Social-Networking Services by Minors
Introduced in the first chamber, dated , as of .
A social media and minors rule binding private bodies.
- Age threshold
- 15
- Covered services
- Online social-networking services provided by online platforms to minors in Greece.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Verification methods
- Digital ID
As of .
Where it has got to
The text described here is Σχέδιο νόμου του Υπουργού Επικρατείας, as filed on . That print is 13438401, published .
Locally, this stage is Κατατεθέν σχέδιο νόμου (government bill filed in Parliament).
The stage above is recorded at www.hellenicparliament.gr.
The Parliament's page marks the filed copy as not the final text, because spelling and syntax corrections are pending. The page lists a session of the Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice on .
What it requires
- Do not give a minor who has not completed the fifteenth year of age access to an online social-networking service provided by an online platform; the bill prohibits that access.
- To check age you may use the age-verification functionality of the digital document repository under Law 4954/2022, or the KidsWallet application; the bill says these may be used and does not make either mandatory.
- When applying the age limit, treat 1 January as the date of birth of everyone born in the same calendar year.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The National Council for Radio and Television (ESR) and the Hellenic Data Protection Authority, as the competent authorities designated by Article 5 of the bill.
What this law does
The bill adds Article 4A to Law 5099/2024, which prohibits access to online social-networking services provided by online platforms to minors who have not completed their fifteenth year of age. For that purpose the bill says that the age-verification functionality of the digital document repository under Law 4954/2022, or the KidsWallet application, may be used. The bill treats 1 January as the date of birth of everyone born in the same calendar year.
Article 5 of the bill designates the National Council for Radio and Television and the Hellenic Data Protection Authority as competent authorities. Those authorities are competent to supervise the application of Article 4A and have the powers of paragraph 2 of Article 11. Under Article 6 of the bill, its force begins on . The bill applies subject to the adoption of an EU regulation on the same matter, on which it ceases to apply of right. The Minister of State filed the government bill in the Hellenic Parliament on .
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