Internet & Online Safety - Liechtenstein

The E-Commerce Act (ECG) of 16 April 2003 transposes the EU E-Commerce Directive, governing information-society services, provider information duties, conditional intermediary liability (mere conduit/caching/hosting safe harbours), the country-of-origin principle, and cooperation with other EEA states.

The Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065) is marked EEA-relevant and is under scrutiny for incorporation into the EEA Agreement by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway; it has not yet entered into force for the EEA EFTA states, and the EEA Council has flagged its incorporation as still upcoming.

Incorporation requires an EEA Joint Committee decision plus national transposition; Norway (the same EEA EFTA track) is targeting application from summer 2026, indicating the regime is not yet operative across the EEA EFTA pillar including Liechtenstein.

The Office for Communications (Amt für Kommunikation) supervises audiovisual media services under the AVMS framework, covering protection of minors, commercial communication, media literacy and social networks, reflecting EU-aligned content rules already in force.

Domestic content/media activity is also framed by the Media Act (Mediengesetz, 19 Oct 2005) and the Communications Act (Kommunikationsgesetz, 17 March 2006), which establish media and electronic-communications rules but do not constitute a dedicated comprehensive online-safety law.

Liechtenstein has no comprehensive statutory online age-verification mandate of its own yet (these would arrive with DSA-aligned measures); protection-of-minors obligations currently flow from AVMS rules, and there is no heavy state restriction or censorship of internet access.