LithuaniaLaw on the Provision of Information to the Public, Article 40-4 (Video-Sharing Platform Providers and the Protection of Minors)
In force since .
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Lietuvos radijo ir televizijos komisija (Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania)
As of .
What it requires
- If you provide a video-sharing platform service under Lithuanian jurisdiction, take measures to protect minors from programmes, user-generated videos and commercial audiovisual communications that spread information with a negative effect on minors (Article 40-4(1)).
- Implement measures from the list in Article 40-4(2), which includes creating and applying age-verification systems for platform users and providing parental control systems managed by end users, for content with a negative effect on minors.
- Apply the strictest access-control measures to the most harmful content (Article 40-4(3)).
- Fit the measures to the nature of the content, the harm it may cause, the group to be protected and the rights and legitimate interests at stake, and keep them feasible and proportionate to the size and nature of the service (Article 40-4(3)).
- Use prior control or filtering of uploaded content only as the Law on Information Society Services allows (Article 40-4(3)).
- Notify the Radio and Television Commission, in the manner it sets, before you begin providing the service (Article 40-3(2)).
- Where the Commission finds the chosen measures inappropriate, apply the specific measures it requires (Article 40-4(5)).
What it reaches
Covered services
Video-sharing platform providers under Lithuanian jurisdiction, meaning those established in Lithuania or linked to it through a parent undertaking, subsidiary or group company (Article 40-3)
Obligation class
Age verification
What this law does
Article 40-4 of the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public requires video-sharing platform providers under Lithuanian jurisdiction to take measures to protect minors from programmes, user-generated videos and commercial audiovisual communications that spread information with a negative effect on minors.
Paragraph 2 of that Article lists the measures a provider implements at its choice, among them the creation and application of age-verification systems for platform users in respect of content with a negative effect on minors. Paragraph 2 also lists parental control systems managed by end users for such content. Under paragraph 3, the strictest access-control measures must be applied to the most harmful content.
Under paragraph 5, the Radio and Television Commission assesses the measures and may require a provider to apply specific measures where it finds the chosen ones inappropriate. Law XIV-180 replaced Article 40-4 with its present text. The amending Law took effect on .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app publishes adult content.