Internet & Online Safety · Slovenia
Online safety & content laws in Slovenia (2026)
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Slovenia applies the EU Digital Services Act as the primary online safety and platform-regulation framework, supplemented by a national implementing act that entered into force on 13 April 2024 designating AKOS as the Digital Services Coordinator with full supervisory and sanctioning powers. A new Media Act (ZMed-1), approved by government on 31 December 2024 and subsequently passed by parliament, extends national content obligations to influencers, mandates labelling of AI-generated media content, and strengthens hate-speech rules. Slovenia relies on the DSA's Article 28 framework for protection of minors online and has publicly backed an EU-wide mandatory age-verification regime.
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Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 applies directly in Slovenia without transposition, setting rules on intermediary liability, notice-and-action, content moderation transparency, and systemic-risk obligations for Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and search engines.
The Slovenian parliament enacted the Act on the Implementation of the EU Regulation on the Single Market for Digital Services, which entered into force on 13 April 2024. It designates AKOS as the national Digital Services Coordinator and empowers it to conduct inspections and impose fines on non-compliant intermediary service providers established in Slovenia.
AKOS oversees DSA compliance for intermediaries established in Slovenia, grants trusted-flagger status to qualifying organisations, certifies vetted researchers for platform data access, designates out-of-court dispute settlement bodies, and co-operates with the European Commission on VLOP oversight. AKOS published its first Annual Report as DSC covering 2024 activities.
The government approved a comprehensive Media Act on 31 December 2024 and parliament subsequently adopted it. ZMed-1 classifies creators with 10,000 or more followers on online or video-sharing platforms as regulated influencers, requires labelling of generative-AI content, and strengthens prohibitions on incitement to hatred, discrimination, and violence in the media space. The European Parliament raised questions in 2025 about its compliance with European freedom-of-expression standards.
Slovenia has no standalone national age-verification law; protection of minors is governed by DSA Article 28 (prohibiting dark patterns targeting children and requiring risk assessments by VLOPs) and EU Commission guidelines issued July 2025. Slovenia has politically endorsed a 16-year age threshold for independent social-network access and joined a multi-state call for EU-level mandatory parental-consent requirements for platforms such as TikTok and Instagram.
Under the DSA, online platforms operating in Slovenia must maintain free, accessible internal complaint systems allowing users to contest content-moderation decisions, inform users of restrictions with reasons, and offer out-of-court dispute resolution. Intermediaries benefit from conditional liability exemptions (mere conduit, caching, hosting) contingent on prompt action against illegal content upon notice.
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