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Ireland’s Online Safety Code: Age Assurance, Parental Controls and Content Ratings to Drive Enforcement for Video-Sharing Platforms; AVMSD/DSA Alignment and Ongoing Platform Challenges

Published on: 24 March 2025

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Online Safety Code

Video-sharing services including YouTube, TikTok and Facebook are a little beyond the midpoint of a grace window before Ireland’s new online safety framework begins to bite, and the watchdog has underlined that age assurance will be front and centre once enforcement begins. Coimisiún na Meán, the Irish media commission, unveiled its Online Safety Code in November, with broad ‘Part A’ rules taking effect almost at once. However, platforms have until 21 July this year to ready themselves for ‘Part B’ duties, which cover age checks for explicit and adult material, parental controls, and content ratings. The guidance ‘is concentrating very strongly on age assurance, particularly around the under‑18/over‑18 boundary, so that would tackle issues of pornography, and we welcome that’, Online Safety Commissioner Niamh Hodnett told MLex in an interview. The Online Safety Code sets out guidance for video-sharing platforms on matters not squarely addressed by the EU’s content‑moderation statute, the Digital Services Act, or DSA, which fully applied from February 2024 and extends to a broader set of online services...

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