What Germany Jugendschutzgesetz (JuSchG) and StGB § 184 - Youth Protection Act §§ 1, 4, 12, 14, 15, 18, 24a, 24b, 24c, 27, 28; Strafgesetzbuch § 184; BzKJ (Bundeszentrale für Kinder- und Jugendmedienschutz) Enforcement requires
The German Jugendschutzgesetz (JuSchG - Youth Protection Act) and Strafgesetzbuch (StGB - Criminal Code) § 184 form the federal-level legal regime in Germany governing the distribution of media that may endanger or restrict minors. The JuSchG was last amended on 6 May 2024 (BGBl. 2024 I Nr. 149 Art. 12) and is published at gesetze-im-internet.de/juschg. Key sections include § 1 (Definitions - children are persons under 14, adolescents are persons aged 14 to under 18, media includes both physical carriers Trägermedien and digital services digitale Dienste); § 12 (age classification Altersfreigabe for films and computer games on physical carriers); § 14 (age labels - the five-tier system: ohne Altersbeschränkung, ab 6, ab 12, ab 16, keine Jugendfreigabe); § 15 (jugendgefährdende Medien - media that endanger minors - distribution to minors is prohibited); § 18 (the Liste jugendgefährdender Medien - the federal index of youth-endangering media maintained by the BzKJ); § 24a (Vorsorgemaßnahmen - precautionary measures for telemedia providers and digital service providers including age verification, complaint mechanisms, and privacy protections); § 24b and § 24c (enforcement by the BzKJ - Bundeszentrale für Kinder- und Jugendmedienschutz); § 27 (criminal penalties including imprisonment up to one year or fines for distribution offences); § 28 (administrative fines up to 5 million euro for non-compliance with BzKJ orders). The Strafgesetzbuch § 184 (Verbreitung pornographischer Inhalte) criminalises offering, supplying, or making available pornographic content to a person under 18 (an einer Person unter achtzehn Jahren anbietet, überläßt oder zugänglich macht) and parallel acts including unsolicited distribution, public promotion, public screenings for a fee, and certain export acts with imprisonment up to one year or a fine. The Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (JMStV - Inter-State Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media) and the KJM (Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz) operate at the Länder level alongside the federal JuSchG and StGB regimes; an operator with German users must satisfy all three layers simultaneously.
Pillar: Cybersecurity · Authority: Federal Ministry for Family Affairs (BMFSFJ); BzKJ (Bundeszentrale für Kinder- und Jugendmedienschutz) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/juschg/BJNR273000002.html
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- Jugendschutzgesetz (JuSchG - Youth Protection Act) BGBl I S. 2730 of 23 July 2002 as amended (last amendment 6 May 2024 BGBl. 2024 I Nr. 149 Art. 12) - the federal-level German law governing the protection of children and adolescents from media that may endanger their development; published at gesetze-im-internet.de/juschg/BJNR273000002.html.
- JuSchG § 1 Definitions - Kinder (children) are persons under 14 years; Jugendliche (adolescents) are persons 14 to under 18 years; Medien includes both Trägermedien (physical carrier media) and digitale Dienste (digital services - the 2021 reform expanded the JuSchG to cover online media).
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