PortugalVideo-Sharing Platform Age Verification Duty
Lei n.º 27/2007 de 30 de julho (Lei da Televisão e dos Serviços Audiovisuais a Pedido), art. 69.º-C, alínea e), added by Lei n.º 74/2020, de 19 de novembro, art. 3.º
In force since .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Operator establishment
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a video-sharing platform provider, create and manage systems to verify the age of the platform's users and audience, among other adequate measures, to protect children and young people from content that could harm their physical, mental or moral development (Article 69.º-C, alínea e)).
- Provide a parental-control system under the end user's own control.
- Provide a transparent, easy-to-use and effective complaint-handling procedure.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (ERC) (guidance, recorded ).
If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
Coima (administrative fine) tier under Article 77.º(1) of Lei n.º 27/2007 for breach of any of a group of Chapter VI-A video-sharing-platform duties, including the age-verification-systems duty of Article 69.º-C, alínea e); the article groups this duty with several other obligations under the same fine bracket rather than pricing it alone.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 75,000
- Currency
- EUR
- Fixed cap
- 375,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
ERC, Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social
Settledness
- As of
- Guidance link
- https://www.erc.pt/document.php?id=ZTY2ZmEyMWYtODJjOS00YzkxLTljNDUtYjBlNDU1NDM3YWQ5
- Guidance body
- Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (ERC)
- Open questions
- Which age-verification systems satisfy Article 69.º-C, alínea e), of the Lei da Televisão e dos Serviços Audiovisuais a Pedido, when the provision requires 'sistemas de verificação da idade' without naming a method and Article 69.º-D leaves the adequacy of a provider's solution to the ERC's assessment?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 69-C(e) is one of the measures a video-sharing platform provider takes to protect children: creating and managing age verification systems. It requires no log or record of the checks to be kept or produced. Article 69-D, outside the provision this entry covers, has the regulator assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the providers' solutions, which is a review of the measures and names no record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A video-sharing platform provider must, among other adequate measures, create and manage systems to verify the age of the platform's users and audience, contributing to the protection of children and young people from content that could harm their physical, mental, or moral development, under Article 69.º-C, alínea e), of the Lei da Televisão e dos Serviços Audiovisuais a Pedido.
The same article requires a parental-control system under the end user's own control, and a transparent, easy-to-use, and effective complaint-handling procedure. Breach of Article 69.º-C is punishable by an administrative fine (coima) of 75,000 to 375,000 euros under Article 77.º(1) of the same Act. The ERC (Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social) assesses the adequacy and effectiveness of the measures a provider adopts, under Article 69.º-D.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.
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