SloveniaZakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah (ZAvMS), Art. 14, Technical Protection of Minors from Adult Audiovisual Content
In force since .
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding public and private bodies.
- Age threshold
- 18
- Covered services
- Linear and on-demand (non-linear) audiovisual media services within Slovenian jurisdiction
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Operator establishment
- Obligation class
- Content labelling, Age verification
- Verification methods
- Parental consent
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to a provider of a linear or on-demand (non-linear) audiovisual media service within Slovenian jurisdiction.
- Classify content that could harm a child's physical, mental or moral development into one of five bands; the most restrictive is adult content, covering unjustified violence and pornography.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- On a non-linear service, put adult content behind a technical control that is locked by default and works like a PIN code, so that only an adult who understands its purpose can unlock it.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- Process any personal data of a child collected through that control only to verify the user's age.NIST Privacy FrameworkCT.PO-P1
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework, and in the NIST Privacy Framework, line by line beside each duty above. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Penalty structure
Tier for a legal entity under Article 43(1); the same offense carries 3,000 to 30,000 euros for a sole proprietor or self-employed individual, a fixed 600 euros for the legal entity's responsible person, and a fixed 300 euros for a natural person, under Article 43(2) to (4).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 6,000
- Currency
- EUR
- Fixed cap
- 60,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Agencija za komunikacijska omrežja in storitve Republike Slovenije (AKOS)
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- What counts as 'drugo enakovredno zaščito' (other equivalent protection) alongside a PIN code in the definition of tehnična zaščita (technical protection) in Article 14(8) of the Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah, so that adult content on a non-linear service is locked by default under paragraph 7?
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Data subject
What the log must hold
Event time, Access record
Logging duty
Article 14(11) requires an electronic communications operator or media service provider that offers paid audiovisual services to itemize the bill so that each order and payment for a service shows the amount and the date and time of the purchase, viewing or listening, and paragraph 12 sends that itemization to the subscriber free of charge with each invoice unless the subscriber declines it. The Article does not use the words log or record, but the itemization cannot be produced without keeping those events. The technical protection in paragraphs 7 and 8 is a PIN-style lock, and paragraph 9 limits personal data of children collected under it to verifying age; neither sets a retention rule.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- ZAvMS, Article 14, paragraphs 11 and 12
What this law does
Under Article 14 as amended by ZAvMS-B (Uradni list RS No. 204/2021 of ), a provider of an audiovisual media service in Slovenia must classify content that could harm a child's physical, mental or moral development into one of five bands, the most restrictive being adult content covering unjustified violence and pornography.
Adult content on a non-linear service must sit behind a default-locked, PIN-code-equivalent technical control that only an adult who understands its purpose can unlock. Any personal data of a child collected through that control may be processed only to verify the user's age.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app publishes adult content.
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