MoldovaCode of Audiovisual Media Services, Protection of Minors and On-Demand Providers
Code of Audiovisual Media Services, Law No. 174/2018, arts. 15, 61, 84
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An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding public and private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Broadcasting Council (Consiliul Audiovizualului)
- Covered services
- Linear (broadcast) and on-demand audiovisual media services under Moldovan jurisdiction
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Operator establishment
- Obligation class
- Age verification, Content labelling
- Audit expectation
- on_request
- Who audits it
- Regulator
- Where the report goes
- Produced on request
What it requires
- Applies to media service providers, private and public alike, including on-demand audiovisual media service providers (on-demand video and rerun-video services) under Moldovan jurisdiction.
- Act in the minor's best interest: do not broadcast on a linear service programmes likely to affect a minor's physical, mental or moral development, especially those containing pornography or unjustified violence.
- You may carry such content on a linear service only behind a conditional access system.
- On-demand services: offer such content only where access restriction measures keep minors from normally seeing or hearing it.
- Follow the Broadcasting Council's Audiovisual Content Regulation, which fixes the detailed content classification, scheduling and access-restriction rules.
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If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionNo
Penalty structure
A first violation of the Article 15 minors-protection duty draws a public warning under Article 84(3)(a); a fine of MDL 10,000 to 15,000 applies under Article 84(6)(a) for failing to comply with a Broadcasting Council decision enforcing that duty.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 10,000
- Currency
- MDL
- Fixed cap
- 15,000
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Regulator
What the log must hold
Output reference
Log retention
At least 60 days from the date the programme ceases to be available for viewing; at least 90 days where a right of reply or rectification is requested (Article 61(3)).
- Unit
- Days
- As of
- Basis
- Fixed
- Minimum value
- 60
Logging duty
The record is a copy of the programme made available, kept so the regulator can review it; it is not a record of an age check. Article 15(7) and (8) require a conditional access system or access restriction measures for content that may affect minors and name no record of the checks. The duty applies to every on-demand service.
- Kind
- Explicit
- As of
- Provision
- Code of Audiovisual Media Services, Art. 61(2)-(4): an on-demand provider must keep a copy of each programme for at least 60 days after it ceases to be available (90 days where a right of reply or rectification is requested) and hand copies to the Broadcasting Council within 3 working days of a request
- Trigger
- all_systems
What this law does
Article 15 binds every media service provider to the minor's best interest and, at paragraph (6), prohibits linear broadcasting of programmes likely to affect a minor's physical, mental or moral development, especially those containing pornography or unjustified violence; paragraph (7) allows such content in linear services only behind a conditional access system, and paragraph (8) allows it in on-demand services only where access restriction measures keep minors from normally seeing or hearing it.
Article 61(1)(a) extends this protection-of-minors duty by name to providers of on-demand audiovisual media services, covering on-demand video and rerun-video services under Moldovan jurisdiction. The Broadcasting Council (Consiliul Audiovizualului) is tasked under Article 15(9)-(10) with fixing the detailed content classification, scheduling and access-restriction rules in its own Audiovisual Content Regulation, whose own provisions are not described here.
A first violation of Article 15 draws a public warning under Article 84(3)(a); failing to comply with a Broadcasting Council decision enforcing the minors-protection duty draws a fine of MDL 10,000 to 15,000 under Article 84(6)(a). This provision applies to both private and public (state) media service providers alike.
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