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Reference framework for age verification systems

Notification Number:

2024/0208/FR (France)

Date received:

15/04/2024

End of Standstill:

16/07/2024 (closed)

Issue of comments by:

European Commission

Draft Text:

FR BG HR CS DA NL EN ET FI GA DE EL HU IT LV LT MT PL PT RO SK SL ES SV

Final Text:

FR BG HR CS DA NL EN ET FI GA DE EL HU IT LV LT MT PL RO SK SL ES SV PT

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Communication from the Commission - TRIS/(2024) 1024

Directive (EU) 2015/1535

Notification: 2024/0208/FR

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1. MSG 001 IND 2024 0208 FR EN 15-04-2024 FR NOTIF

2. France

3A. Ministères économiques et financiers Direction générale des entreprises
SCIDE/SQUALPI - Pôle Normalisation et réglementation des produits
Bât. Sieyès -Teledoc 143
61, Bd Vincent Auriol
75703 PARIS Cedex 13

3B. Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique 39-43 Quai André Citroën, 75015 Paris

4. 2024/0208/FR - SERV - INFORMATION SOCIETY SERVICES

5. Reference framework for age verification systems

6. Video-sharing platforms

7.

8. Article 1 of the Law on securing and regulating the digital space, adopted by the Parliament on 10 April 2024, provides for the amendment of Article 10 of Law No 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 for trust in the digital economy (LCEN) as follows:

’ Article 10. – I. – The Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication shall ensure that pornographic content made available to the public by a provider of a communication service to the public online, under his/her editorial responsibility, or provided by a video-sharing platform service, within the meaning of Article 2 of Law No 86 1067 of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication, is not accessible to minors.

To that end, it shall establish and publish, after consulting the French National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties, a reference framework setting out the minimum technical requirements for age verification systems. These requirements concern the reliability of user age verification and respect for their privacy. This reference framework shall be updated as necessary under the same conditions. The Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication may require publishers and service providers referred to in the first subparagraph of this point I to conduct an audit of the age verification systems they implement in order to attest to the compliance of those systems with the technical requirements defined by the reference framework That reference shall specify the procedures for carrying out and publicising that audit, which shall be entrusted to an independent body with proven experience.’
These provisions are intended to replace those of Article 23 of the Law of 30 July 2020, which already provided for a procedure for action against sites that have not adopted measures to ensure that minors are not exposed to pornographic content online, contrary to Article 227-24 of the French Penal Code.

Pursuant to these new provisions of Article 10 of the LCEN, the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom) publishes a public consultation on a draft reference framework, which is the subject of this notification.

9. The draft reference framework put into public consultation would be adopted pursuant to Article 10 of Law No 2004‑575 of 21 June 2004 (LCEN), as recalled in point 8 above.

10. References to basic texts: 2023/0632/FR

The basic texts were forwarded with an earlier notification:
2023/0632/FR

11. No

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13. No

14. No

15. No

16.
TBT aspects: No

SPS aspects: No

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European Commission
Contact point Directive (EU) 2015/1535
email: grow-dir2015-1535-central@ec.europa.eu

Disclosed messages

message-id	Year	Number	Country	Type	Title	Date received	Is answer to
107861	2024	1025	COMEuropean Commission	003	Receipt of the draft text	15-04-2024
107862	2024	1026	COMEuropean Commission	037	Competitiveness analysis	15-04-2024
108027	2024	1147	COMEuropean Commission	301	Request for supplementary information	29-04-2024
108145	2024	1259	FRFrance	201	Answer of the notifying Member State	13-05-2024	2024-1147
108833	2024	1895	FRFrance	007	Communication: General Information from the Commission or Member States	12-07-2024
108863	2024	1918	COMEuropean Commission	303	Comments	16-07-2024
109855	2024	2895	COMEuropean Commission	049	Acknowledgement of receipt of the adopted text	25-10-2024

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