Online safety & content laws in Monaco (2026)

Law No. 1.565 of 3 December 2024 aligns Monaco's framework with GDPR and imposes parental-consent requirements for minors under 15 accessing information society services, with enforcement delegated to the newly created APDP (replacing the former CCIN).

Law No. 1.578 of 1 July 2025 reinforced measures required of technical service providers regarding the dissemination of content relating to serious offences against persons, incitement to terrorism and its apology, and other unlawful activities — Monaco's closest analogue to platform content-moderation duties.

Law No. 1.578 also strengthened cybersecurity duties for operators of vital importance (OIVs), including mandatory security standards, incident-notification requirements, regular controls, and penalties up to €150,000 per infraction for individuals (five times that for legal entities).

Monaco has not enacted its own platform-liability or systemic content-moderation law comparable to the EU DSA. EU DSA obligations reach Monaco-headquartered platforms only insofar as they target EU-located users, enforced through EU mechanisms, not Monaco's own regulators.

As of January 2026, Monaco faces an active public debate about protecting minors on social media, with experts noting that platform age verification 'is not done properly.' No dedicated age-verification law for online platforms has been passed; Monaco's offline response has been a school smartphone ban (Year 6 through high school) since the 2025 school year.

Monaco formally renewed its request for an EU data-protection adequacy decision in early 2025, with the European Commission currently reviewing its framework. Monaco's digital regulation broadly tracks EU standards by design, though without formal EU membership or automatic regulation applicability.