Article 15 Obligations for providers of online games
Providers of online games shall put in place measures to ensure a high level of privacy, safety and security of minors. Those measures shall include at least the following:
ensuring that compulsive or excessive use of the game by minors is not encouraged, by applying Article 9(1) and Article 9(2), points (b) and (d);
ensuring settings of minors are set to a high level of privacy, security and safety, by applying Article 11(1);
ensuring contacts between minors and other recipients of the game are subject to a high level of privacy, security and safety, by applying Article 12(1) and 12(3), points (c);
ensuring mandatory access to the tools for guardians referred to in Article 20 and ensuring that access to services referred to in paragraph 1 for minors below the age of 13 years is only enabled and controlled by means of the tools for guardians referred to in Article 20.
Providers of online games shall put in place safeguards to prevent the game from being used to entice minors to initiate contacts on other services which may pose a risk to their privacy, safety and security.
Where providers of video gaming platforms provide recipients of the service with the possibility to create and upload video games on the service itself, such video gaming platforms shall put in place the necessary software and organisational measures to allow compliance of such video games with paragraphs 1 and 2 and Article 18 and Article 20.
Providers of online games that adhere to a code of conduct assessed as adequate by the Commission in accordance with Article 17 may rely upon such adherence to demonstrate compliance with the obligations set out in this Article.