Cap. 350 Art. 16SMeasures to protect minors applicable to video-sharing platform providers.

(1) Without prejudice to articles 19, 20, 21 and 22 of the

Electronic Commerce Act and Articles 12 to 15 of Directive 2000/31/

EC, video-sharing platform providers under the jurisdiction of Malta shall take the necessary measures to protect:

(a) minors from programmes, user-generated videos and audiovisual commercial communications which may impair their physical, mental or moral development in accordance with article 16JA;

(b) the general public from programmes, user-generated videos and audiovisual commercial communications containing incitement to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of a group based on any of the grounds referred to in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

(c) the general public from programmes, user-generated videos and audiovisual commercial communications containing content the dissemination of which constitutes an activity which is a criminal offence under Union law, namely public provocation to commit a terrorist offence as set out in Article 5 of Directive (EU) 2017/541 and in Book First, Part II,