SerbiaLaw on Electronic Media, Protection of Minors and Video-Sharing Platform Obligations
In force.
An age-appropriate design code rule binding public and private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Regulatorno telo za elektronske medije (Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media, REM)
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to media service providers generally (Article 64) and, specifically, to video-sharing platform providers established in Serbia (Article 115).
- As a media service provider, take all measures necessary so that your program content does not harm the physical, mental or moral development of minors, and act in a minor's best interest when timing or otherwise publishing content that could cause that harm (Article 64).
- As a video-sharing platform provider, take appropriate measures to protect minors from program content, user-generated video content or audiovisual commercial communications that could harm that development (Article 115).
- Check whether the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media has specified the platform measures further, as Article 116 lets it do, having regard to the nature and potential harm of the content and the categories of persons to protect.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionNo
Penalty structure
Article 125's misdemeanor (prekrsaj) band of 500,000 to 2,000,000 dinars for a legal entity covers both the general minor-protection duty of Arts. 64-68 (item 5) and the video-sharing platform obligations of Art. 115 (item 13) in the same clause. A responsible person within the legal entity is liable separately for 50,000 to 150,000 dinars, and an entrepreneur for 50,000 to 500,000 dinars, under the same article.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 500,000
- Currency
- RSD
- Fixed cap
- 2,000,000
What it reaches
Covered services
Media service providers generally (Art. 64), and video-sharing platform providers established in Serbia specifically (Arts. 115-117)
Obligation class
Design code
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Articles 64 and 115 require measures to protect minors from harmful content and leave the detail to the Regulator under Article 116; none of the cited articles names a record, log, audit or retention rule. The jurisdiction rule in Article 117 is not cited by this row and is not borrowed.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 64 requires every media service provider to take all measures necessary so that its program content does not harm the physical, mental or moral development of minors, and to act in a minor's best interest when timing or otherwise publishing content that could cause that harm.
Article 115 additionally requires a video-sharing platform provider to take appropriate measures to protect minors from program content, user-generated video content, or audiovisual commercial communications that could harm that development. Article 116 lets the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media specify those measures further, having regard to the nature and potential harm of the content and the categories of persons to protect.
A legal-entity provider that fails to comply with either duty is liable to a fine of 500,000 to 2,000,000 dinars. The law commences the eighth day after publication in the Official Gazette; no notice stating the resulting day has been located.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.
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