EU KIDS ActEU · PROPOSAL
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Recital 23


Recital 23

Guardian-Controlled Access for Minors Below 13 Unofficial title


Proposal (not yet law)

This is the text proposed by the European Commission on 17 September 2026 (COM(2026) 681 final, procedure 2026/0286(COD)). It has not been adopted and has no legal effect. The European Parliament and the Council may amend it, so the final wording and numbering may differ. Follow the procedure on EUR-Lex.

Where a video-sharing platform service is specifically designed for minors below the age of 13 years, a guardian may exceptionally enable such a minor to access the service under the conditions laid down in Article 7, exclusively through the guardian’s own account and under the guardian’s control and supervision. Such guardian-controlled access does not entail the creation or use of an account by the minor and is therefore not access by means of an account created for, or attributed to, the minor within the meaning of Article 6(1). Guardian-controlled access may be organised through child-specific settings or profiles within the guardian’s account; such settings or profiles do not constitute accounts of the minor.