Recital 15

For the purposes of this Regulation, it is appropriate to establish a common definition of a minor or child. A 'minor’ or ‘child’ should be understood as any natural person under the age of 18, irrespective of any provisions of national law providing for an earlier or later attainment of legal majority. Furthermore, while providers of online social networking services, of video-sharing platform services, online games, software application stores and AI systems remain primarily responsible for the safety of their services and systems when used by minors, parents and legal guardians can play a role in guiding the minors’ experience online. The notion of guardian for the purpose of this Regulation should be based on the definition of parental responsibility in Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111⁽⁶⁾.