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  "title": "Greece passes its under-15 social media ban, minus the age-check duty the European Commission objected to",
  "dek": "Greece's Parliament passed the under-15 social media ban in a vote reported shortly after midnight on 23 October 2026, with only New Democracy voting in favour. By our comparison with the draft sent to Brussels in May, the bill keeps the ban, the age of 15 and the 1 January 2027 start, but drops the platform age-check duty and enforcement rules the European Commission challenged, adds no new fines and lapses if the EU adopts its own regulation.",
  "description": "Greece's Parliament passed a ban on under-15s using social media from 2027, without the age-check duty Brussels opposed. Not yet in the Gazette.",
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        "group": "Children under 15 in Greece and their parents",
        "effect": "From 1 January 2027 children who have not reached the age of 15, counted by birth year, may not access online social networking services; the bill has no exception for parental consent, by our reading.[S2]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Teenagers aged 15 and over",
        "effect": "The bill does not bar them. It does not say whether or how they will have to prove their age; the impact analysis says providers may use any verification system that meets the DSA's requirements (effectiveness, reliability, proportionality, data minimisation, privacy).[S2][S3]"
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      {
        "group": "Social media platforms",
        "effect": "The bill does not prescribe age-verification methods (the May draft did) and sets no new fines; the National Council for Radio and Television (ΕΣΡ) and the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (ΑΠΔΠΧ) would supervise the ban, and complaints about platforms based in another EU country go to that country's regulator, according to the impact analysis.[S2][S3][S7]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Greeks abroad and their children",
        "effect": "The tabled text does not say whether it applies outside Greece; for the May 2026 draft, Greek authorities told the Commission it was meant to apply to providers offering services to users located in Greece, wherever the providers are based.[S2][S5]"
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    "action": "Nothing changes yet: Parliament passed the bill on 23 October 2026, but it has not yet been published in the Government Gazette, and the ban starts on 1 January 2027.[S17][S18][S2] Parents have nothing to file now. The ministry says existing accounts of under-15s get no exemption, but the law does not say how platforms must handle them or how ages will be checked in practice.[S26][S27][S2][S16]"
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      "name": "Prohibition of the use of online social networking services by minors («Απαγόρευση χρήσης επιγραμμικών υπηρεσιών κοινωνικής δικτύωσης από ανηλίκους»)",
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        "label": "European Commission issues a detailed opinion on the May 2026 draft[S5]",
        "date": "2026-08-07",
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        "label": "Revised bill tabled in Parliament by the Minister of State[S1]",
        "date": "2026-10-09",
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        "label": "Greece's reply to the Commission's detailed opinion is forwarded through TRIS[S16]",
        "date": "2026-10-19",
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        "label": "Joint committees on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice and on Social Affairs recommend the bill 'as is'[S31]",
        "date": "2026-10-21",
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        "label": "Passed in plenary: New Democracy in favour, PASOK 'present', the other parties against[S17][S18]",
        "date": "2026-10-23",
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        "label": "Published in the Government Gazette (ΦΕΚ) with a law number",
        "when": "Not yet published (our check, 23 October 2026)",
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        "label": "Final text notified to the European Commission[S16]",
        "when": "After publication",
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        "label": "Ban takes effect[S2][S16]",
        "date": "2027-01-01",
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    "Greece's Parliament passed the ban on children under 15 using online social networking services in a vote reported shortly after midnight on 23 October 2026, with only New Democracy voting in favour; the ban starts on 1 January 2027, with age counted by birth year.[S17][S18][S2] By our check on 23 October, it was not yet in the Government Gazette.[S30]",
    "By our comparison with the draft Greece sent to Brussels in May 2026, the duty on platforms to use \"appropriate, proportionate and reliable\" age checks is gone; the state's Kids Wallet and digital document repository age checks \"may be used\" (in our translation). In a reply forwarded to the European Commission on 19 October 2026, Greece said it had removed the national age-check duty.[S2][S7][S16]",
    "The bill sets no fines of its own, and it lapses automatically if the EU adopts a regulation on the same matter."
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      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "The government's April 2026 question-and-answer note said platforms would have to re-verify the age of all accounts in Greece and exclude under-age ones.[S14]",
      "finding": "The tabled bill contains no re-verification duty and says nothing about existing accounts.[S2]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "Proto Thema's April 2026 headline spoke of fines of up to 6% of global turnover for platforms that do not cooperate with the Greek state.[S13]",
      "finding": "The 6% is the DSA maximum cited in the government's own April note.[S14] The tabled bill sets no fines of its own; the impact analysis says it creates no new administrative fines and that penalties for platforms based in another EU country are for that country's regulator.[S2][S3]"
    },
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      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "The impact analysis says the Commission's detailed opinion of 7 August 2026 was taken into account in reshaping the draft.[S3]",
      "finding": "The age-verification duty, the age-estimation clause and ΕΕΤΤ's forwarding role, which the Commission objected to,[S5] are absent from the tabled text.[S2]"
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      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "The draft sent to Brussels in May 2026 banned under-15s, counted age by birth year and started on 1 January 2027.[S7]",
      "finding": "All three remain in the tabled text of 9 October 2026, now subject to a clause ending the law if an EU regulation on the same matter is adopted.[S2]"
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      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "Minister of State Akis Skertsos told Parliament on 22 October 2026 that the bill \"has received the approval of the European Commission\" (in our translation).[S23][S24]",
      "finding": "We found no Commission document saying so. The EU notification record lists Greece's reply of 19 October 2026 as the latest message; the Commission's last act on file is its detailed opinion of 7 August 2026, which said only that rules limited to setting a minimum age do not conflict with the DSA.[S6][S16][S5]"
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    "Whether the plenary changed the text. The joint committees recommended the bill 'as is' on 21 October 2026, and we found no report of amendments accepted in the plenary, but Parliament has not yet published the voted text.",
    "The law's number and the date it is published in the Government Gazette (ΦΕΚ). By our check on 23 October 2026, it had not been published.",
    "Whether the European Commission accepts Greece's changes, including on its point that general rules for providers based in other EU countries clash with the e-commerce Directive. Minister of State Akis Skertsos told Parliament the Commission had approved the bill, but we found no Commission document saying so.",
    "Who exactly must check a user's age, and how. The tabled text bans access but does not say in terms who carries out the check or by what method.",
    "Which apps count as \"online social networking services\". The bill lists none; the ministry's question-and-answer note gives Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn as examples of a list it says is not closed, but whether messaging apps, YouTube, games with chat or other services are covered is not stated in the law.",
    "How platforms must deal with existing accounts of under-15s on 1 January 2027. The ministry's reading is that such accounts get no exemption, but the law does not say how platforms must handle them; the government's April 2026 talk of re-verifying all accounts in Greece is not in the bill.",
    "Whether the ban covers only users located in Greece. The tabled text does not say; for the May 2026 draft, Greek authorities told the Commission it was meant to apply to providers offering services to users located in Greece, wherever the providers are based.",
    "Which penalties, if any, ΕΣΡ and ΑΠΔΠΧ could impose for a breach of the ban: the impact analysis says the bill creates no new fines, while the General Accounting Office expects possible revenue from 'the sanctions provided for'.",
    "When, and in what form, the EU KIDS Act might be adopted, which would end the Greek law automatically."
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      "url": "https://www.capital.gr/politiki/4025042/kur-mitsotakis-simera-psifizoume-to-nomosxedio-gia-epiboli-oriou-ilikias-gia-prosbasi-sta-social-media/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261023070535/https://www.capital.gr/politiki/4025042/kur-mitsotakis-simera-psifizoume-to-nomosxedio-gia-epiboli-oriou-ilikias-gia-prosbasi-sta-social-media/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S23",
      "publisher": "Enikos",
      "title": "Σκέρτσος για απαγόρευση πρόσβασης στο Διαδίκτυο παιδιών κάτω των 15 ετών: Καλώ την αντιπολίτευση να δείξει υπεύθυνη στάση - Απέρριψε την τροπολογία του ΠΑΣΟΚ",
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.enikos.gr/politics/skertsos-gia-apagorefsi-prosvasis-sto-diadiktyo-paidion-kato-ton-15-eton-kalo-tin-antipolitefsi-na-deixei-ypefthyni-stasi-aperripse-tin-tropologia-tou-pasok/2664403/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261023070542/https://www.enikos.gr/politics/skertsos-gia-apagorefsi-prosvasis-sto-diadiktyo-paidion-kato-ton-15-eton-kalo-tin-antipolitefsi-na-deixei-ypefthyni-stasi-aperripse-tin-tropologia-tou-pasok/2664403/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S24",
      "publisher": "Athens Voice",
      "title": "Σκέρτσος: Συμβατή με την ενωσιακή νομοθεσία η απαγόρευση πρόσβασης στο Διαδίκτυο για παιδιά κάτω των 15",
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.athensvoice.gr/epikairotita/politiki-oikonomia/993000/skertsos-sumvati-me-tin-enosiaki-nomothesia-i-apagoreusi-prosvasis-sto-diadiktuo-gia-paidia-kato-ton-15/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261023070657/https://www.athensvoice.gr/epikairotita/politiki-oikonomia/993000/skertsos-sumvati-me-tin-enosiaki-nomothesia-i-apagoreusi-prosvasis-sto-diadiktuo-gia-paidia-kato-ton-15/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S25",
      "publisher": "in.gr",
      "title": "Τροπολογία κατέθεσε το ΠΑΣΟΚ για την πρόσβαση των παιδιών στα social media - Τι προβλέπει",
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.in.gr/2026/10/22/politics/epikairotita/tropologia-katethese-to-pasok-gia-tin-prosvasi-ton-paidion-sta-social-media-ti-provlepei/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261023070620/https://www.in.gr/2026/10/22/politics/epikairotita/tropologia-katethese-to-pasok-gia-tin-prosvasi-ton-paidion-sta-social-media-ti-provlepei/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S26",
      "publisher": "Insider.gr",
      "title": "Απαγόρευση social media σε ανήλικους - 28 ερωταπαντήσεις",
      "date": "2026-10-12",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.insider.gr/eidiseis/428355/apagoreysi-social-media-se-anilikoys-28-erotapantiseis",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261023070619/https://www.insider.gr/eidiseis/428355/apagoreysi-social-media-se-anilikoys-28-erotapantiseis"
    },
    {
      "id": "S27",
      "publisher": "Newsbomb",
      "title": "Παιδιά και social media: 28 ερωτήσεις και απαντήσεις για το όριο πρόσβασης των 15 ετών από 1/1/2027",
      "date": "2026-10-12",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.newsbomb.gr/paideia/story/1769313/paidia-kai-social-media-28-erotiseis-kai-apantiseis-gia-to-orio-prosvasis-ton-15-eton-apo-1-1-2027",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261023070716/https://www.newsbomb.gr/paideia/story/1769313/paidia-kai-social-media-28-erotiseis-kai-apantiseis-gia-to-orio-prosvasis-ton-15-eton-apo-1-1-2027"
    },
    {
      "id": "S28",
      "publisher": "Lawspot",
      "title": "Πρόσβαση ανηλίκων στα social media: 28 ερωτήσεις και απαντήσεις για το νέο νομοσχέδιο και το EU KIDS Act από το Υπ. Ψηφιακής Διακυβέρνησης",
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.lawspot.gr/nomika-nea/prosbase-anelikon-sta-social-media-28-eroteseis-kai-apanteseis-gia-to-neo-nomoskhedio-kai-to-eu-kids-act-apo-to-up-psephiakes-diakuberneses/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261023070719/https://www.lawspot.gr/nomika-nea/prosbase-anelikon-sta-social-media-28-eroteseis-kai-apanteseis-gia-to-neo-nomoskhedio-kai-to-eu-kids-act-apo-to-up-psephiakes-diakuberneses/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S29",
      "publisher": "Enikos",
      "title": "Βουλή: Υπερψηφίστηκε το ν/σ για την απαγόρευση των social media στους ανηλίκους - \"Παρών\" από το ΠΑΣΟΚ, \"όχι\" από την αντιπολίτευση",
      "date": "2026-10-23",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.enikos.gr/politics/vouli-yperpsifistike-to-n-s-gia-tin-apagorefsi-ton-social-media-stous-anilikous-paron-apo-to-pasok-ochi-apo-tin-antipolitefsi/2664745/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261023070717/https://www.enikos.gr/politics/vouli-yperpsifistike-to-n-s-gia-tin-apagorefsi-ton-social-media-stous-anilikous-paron-apo-to-pasok-ochi-apo-tin-antipolitefsi/2664745/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S30",
      "publisher": "Taxheaven",
      "title": "Νόμος 5347/2026 (ΦΕΚ A 173/21.10.2026)",
      "date": "2026-10-21",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/5347/2026",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261023070841/https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/5347/2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "S31",
      "publisher": "Βουλή των Ελλήνων (committee report)",
      "title": "Joint report of the Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice and the Standing Committee on Social Affairs on the bill",
      "date": "2026-10-21",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/7b24652e-78eb-4807-9d68-e9a5d4576eff/13450271.pdf",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S32",
      "publisher": "Βουλή των Ελλήνων (Scientific Service report)",
      "title": "Report of Parliament's Scientific Service on the bill",
      "date": null,
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/7b24652e-78eb-4807-9d68-e9a5d4576eff/13450451.pdf",
      "archive": null
    }
  ],
  "greekPassages": [
    {
      "id": "ban-15",
      "source": "S2",
      "where": "Article 4 of the bill (new article 4Α of law 5099/2024), paragraph 1",
      "greek": "Απαγορεύεται η πρόσβαση σε επιγραμμικές υπηρεσίες κοινωνικής δικτύωσης που παρέχονται από επιγραμμικές πλατφόρμες σε ανηλίκους που δεν έχουν συμπληρώσει το δέκατο πέμπτο (15ο) έτος της ηλικίας τους.",
      "translation": "Access to online social networking services provided by online platforms is prohibited for minors who have not reached the age of 15."
    },
    {
      "id": "draft-age-check",
      "source": "S7",
      "where": "May 2026 draft, article 4, paragraph 3",
      "greek": "εφαρμόζουν κατάλληλες, αναλογικές και αξιόπιστες μεθόδους επαλήθευσης της ηλικίας, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της ισοδύναμης λύσης επαλήθευσης της ηλικίας της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, η οποία ενσωματώνεται στην εφαρμογή «Gov.gr Wallet» του άρθρου 80 του ν. 4954/2022 (Α’ 136) και στην εφαρμογή «Kids Wallet» του άρθρου 80Α του ν. 4954/2022",
      "translation": "[providers] apply appropriate, proportionate and reliable age-verification methods, including the equivalent EU age-verification solution, which is built into the Gov.gr Wallet app of article 80 of law 4954/2022 and the Kids Wallet app of article 80A of law 4954/2022"
    },
    {
      "id": "sunset",
      "source": "S2",
      "where": "Article 6, paragraph 2",
      "greek": "Ο παρών ισχύει υπό την επιφύλαξη θέσπισης ενωσιακού κανονισμού που ρυθμίζει το ίδιο ζήτημα, οπότε και παύει αυτοδίκαια η ισχύς του.",
      "translation": "This law applies subject to the adoption of an EU regulation governing the same matter, in which case it automatically ceases to apply."
    },
    {
      "id": "committee-as-is",
      "source": "S31",
      "where": "Joint committee report, 21 October 2026, conclusion",
      "greek": "προτείνουν την αποδοχή, κατά πλειοψηφία, του ως άνω σχεδίου νόμου, κατ’ αρχήν, κατ’ άρθρο και στο σύνολό του και εισηγούνται την ψήφισή του από τη Βουλή, ως έχει.",
      "translation": "[the committees] propose that the above bill be accepted, by majority, in principle, article by article and as a whole, and recommend that Parliament pass it as it stands."
    },
    {
      "id": "no-method",
      "source": "S16",
      "where": "Greece's reply to the detailed opinion, 19 October 2026",
      "greek": "η απαίτηση για το κατώτατο όριο ηλικίας διατηρήθηκε, χωρίς να θεσπιστούν πρόσθετες εθνικές υποχρεώσεις όσον αφορά τους τρόπους με τους οποίους οι πάροχοι πρέπει να συμμορφώνονται",
      "translation": "the minimum-age requirement was kept, without introducing additional national obligations as regards the ways in which providers must comply"
    },
    {
      "id": "wallet-examples",
      "source": "S16",
      "where": "Greece's reply to the detailed opinion, 19 October 2026",
      "greek": "η αναφορά αυτή δεν αποσκοπεί στη δημιουργία τυχόν νομικής υποχρέωσης για τους παρόχους να χρησιμοποιούν, να ενσωματώνουν ή να βασίζονται με οποιονδήποτε άλλο τρόπο στο Gov.gr Wallet ή στο Kids Wallet",
      "translation": "this reference is not intended to create any legal obligation for providers to use, integrate or in any other way rely on Gov.gr Wallet or Kids Wallet"
    }
  ],
  "redlines": [
    {
      "id": "may-vs-october",
      "title": "What changed between the May draft and the October bill",
      "before": "May draft",
      "after": "Tabled bill",
      "method": "by our comparison; our translation of the Greek texts",
      "sections": [
        {
          "label": "Age checks",
          "text": "[-Providers apply appropriate, proportionate and reliable age-verification methods, including the EU age-verification solution built into the Gov.gr Wallet and Kids Wallet apps. Providers may supplement age verification with age-estimation methods.-][S7] {+For this purpose, the age-verification function of the digital document repository (article 80 of law 4954/2022) or of the KidsWallet app may be used.+}[S2]"
        },
        {
          "label": "Enforcement",
          "text": "[-Chapter IV of the Digital Services Act applies, with ΕΕΤΤ as Digital Services Coordinator and ΕΣΡ and the Data Protection Authority as competent authorities. For platforms established in another member state, ΕΕΤΤ informs that state's coordinator or the European Commission.-][S7] {+ΕΣΡ and the Data Protection Authority supervise the ban, with the powers of article 11(2) of law 5099/2024.+}[S2]"
        },
        {
          "label": "Start and end",
          "text": "In force from 1 January 2027. {+The law ceases to apply automatically if an EU regulation on the same matter is adopted.+}[S2]"
        }
      ],
      "notes": [
        {
          "who": "European Commission, 7 August",
          "text": "Obligations to verify and estimate age \"are exhaustively regulated by the DSA\".[S5]"
        },
        {
          "who": "European Commission, 7 August",
          "text": "A minimum age for social networking services is \"a worthy objective\".[S5]"
        },
        {
          "who": "Greek impact analysis",
          "text": "The Commission's opinion \"was taken into account in reshaping the draft\" (in our translation).[S3]"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "corrections": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-23",
      "kind": "update",
      "text": "Updated after Parliament passed the bill (ERT reported the vote at 01:03 on 23 October 2026) (New Democracy in favour, PASOK 'present', SYRIZA, Greek Solution, KKE, Niki and Plefsi Eleftherias against), after the joint committees' report of 21 October 2026 recommending the bill 'as is', and after Greece's 19 October 2026 reply to the European Commission was published. We added ministers' statements in the debate, the ministry's question-and-answer note and a check of a minister's claim that the Commission approved the bill. The law has not yet appeared in the Government Gazette."
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "social media",
    "children",
    "Digital Services Act",
    "European Commission",
    "Kids Wallet",
    "Parliament"
  ]
}