Article 18Agency of minors

1. Providers of online social networking services, of video-sharing platform services, of online games, of AI companions, and of general conversational chatbots, shall ensure that the features, communication, information, user-control tools and mechanisms of the service and the system, warnings, and any other information referred to in Chapter III are easily accessible to all minors and presented in a way that minors can understand. Where a provider is a provider of a very large online platforms designated in accordance with Article 33 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, that provider shall ensure that information referred to in this paragraph is made available in the official language(s) of the Member State(s) in which the service is provided.

2. Providers referred to in paragraph 1 shall put in place the following:

• (a)
  tools that allow minors to control and provide feedback on content, prompts, information suggested and search results to which they are exposed and that have immediate and durable effects on such content, prompts, information suggested and search results;
• (b)
  mechanisms that allow minors to control the settings which determine how they interact and communicate with, transfer, create or generate content on the service or the system, including warning signals, and explanations, that allow for temporary changes and that ensure that minors can easily return to previous or default settings.