SloveniaZakon o medijih (ZMed-1, Media Act), Article 52, protection of children from seriously harmful programme content
ZMed-1, 52. člen, Zakon o medijih, Uradni list RS, št. 69/2025
In force since .
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
As of .
What it requires
- Applies to media and, for the child-protection rule, to any form of communication addressed to the general public, including influencers, unless it is exclusively private communication between individuals.
- Do not harm the physical, mental or moral development of children in the media.
- Offer programme content that could seriously harm children's physical, mental or moral development, such as pornography and unjustified violence, only so that children cannot normally access it, for example by an appropriate technical means or technical protection.
If you get it wrong
Private right of actionNo
Penalty structure
Tier for a legal person under Article 100(1), point 5; the same offense carries 1,000 to 5,000 euros for a sole proprietor or self-employed individual, 250 to 1,000 euros for the responsible person of a legal person, and 100 to 500 euros for a natural person, under Article 100(2) to (4).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 2,000
- Currency
- EUR
- Fixed cap
- 20,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Inšpektorat Republike Slovenije za kulturo in medije (Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Culture and Media), with the Agencija za komunikacijska omrežja in storitve (AKOS) for radio programmes
What it reaches
Covered services
Media with their seat and editorial office in Slovenia or providing programme content in Slovenian, and any other form of communication addressed to the general public, including influencers, for the child-protection rule
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
Programme content that could seriously harm the physical, mental or moral development of children, such as pornography and unjustified violence, may be offered in the media only so that children cannot normally access it. The Act gives an appropriate technical means or technical protection as an example of how to do this. The media are also barred from harming the physical, mental or moral development of children.
The rule on protecting children applies to all forms of communication addressed to the general public, including the activity of influencers, whether or not they count as media under the Act, unless the communication is exclusively private between individuals. The Act applies to audiovisual media services only on questions that the law on audiovisual media services does not regulate, unless the Act provides otherwise.
A legal person that offers such content in a way children can normally access commits a more serious offence (hujši prekršek). That offence carries a fine of 2,000 to 20,000 euros for a legal person. The Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Culture and Media supervises the application of the Act. The communications agency AKOS supervises Article 52 where it concerns radio programmes. The Act takes effect on the fifteenth day after its publication in the Uradni list. It was published in Uradni list RS number 69/2025 of , so it took effect on .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app publishes adult content.