UkraineLaw on Media, Video-Sharing Platform and Child-Protection Duties
Law of Ukraine No. 2849-IX "On Media", , arts. 18, 23, 42
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An age-appropriate design code rule binding public and private bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Operator establishment
- Verification methods
- Parental consent
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Article 23 binds a provider of a video-sharing platform: a person supplying a service, whether a website or another form, built on a publicly accessible information repository under its control and client software giving access to it (Article 18). Article 42 governs linear and on-demand audiovisual programs.
- Verify a user's age before granting access to information that may harm a child's physical, mental or moral development (Article 23(1)(3)).
- Make available a parental-control system to protect children from such information (Article 23(1)(3)).
- Show a linear or on-demand audiovisual program rated for an audience of at least 16 only between 22:00 and 06:00, and one rated for an audience of at least 18 only between 24:00 and 05:00; you may instead use a conditional-access system in place of those broadcast windows (Article 42).
- Treat content including violence, self-harm, cruelty to animals, glorification of crime, promotion of substance abuse, profanity, gambling inducement and graphic depiction of the dead or dying as triggering the child-protection restriction (Article 42).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting (Natsіonalna rada Ukrayiny z pytan telebachennya i radіomovlennya), an independent permanent collegial state body exercising state regulation, supervision and control in the media sphere, art. 1(33)
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 23(1)(3) requires a video-sharing platform provider to ensure an age check before a user reaches harmful content and to offer parental control, and states no duty to create or keep a record of the check. Article 23(2) bars processing children's personal data for a commercial purpose, which limits use and sets no retention rule. Article 42, the broadcast time windows, names no record either.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 18 defines a provider of a video-sharing platform as a person supplying a service, whether a website or another form, built on a publicly accessible information repository under the provider's control and client software giving access to it.
Article 23(1)(3) obliges that provider to verify a user's age before granting access to information that may harm a child's physical, mental or moral development, and to make available a parental-control system to protect children from such information. Article 42 separately restricts a linear or on-demand audiovisual program rated for an audience of at least 16 to the period between 22:00 and 06:00, and a program rated for an audience of at least 18 to the period between 24:00 and 05:00.
A provider may instead use a conditional-access system in place of those broadcast windows. Article 42 also lists the categories of content that trigger the child-protection restriction, including violence, self-harm, cruelty to animals, glorification of crime, promotion of substance abuse, profanity, gambling inducement and graphic depiction of the dead or dying.
When LexLint raises it
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