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  • Resource
  • Swedish Safer Internet Centre
  • 21 November 2025

The report Kids and media 2025 describes media habits and attitudes toward media among children aged 9–18. The focus is on media use during a “typical day” in their free time, and it is the children themselves who answer the questions.

Digital leaflet "Teen Accounts: Adolescent Accounts on Social Media"
  • Resource
  • Latvian Safer Internet Centre
  • 20 November 2025

The “Teen Accounts: Adolescent Accounts on Social Media” informative leaflet explains what “teen accounts” are (for ages 13–17), how they differ from regular accounts, and what privacy and safety features they offer. It provides guidance for both teens and parents on how platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat protect young users — by controlling friend lists, limiting access to inappropriate content, and managing screen time.

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  • Rule and guideline
  • advertising/commercialism

The ""Code of Influencer Marketing"" is a self-regulatory instrument developed to establish ethical and transparent practices for advertising on social media. Its primary goal is to provide clear rules for brands, agencies, and influencers to ensure that commercial collaborations are conducted professionally, ethically, and honestly, with a strong focus on protecting consumers from hidden or misleading advertising.

(Source: Website)

  • Slovakia

  • Implemented 2022 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection, BIK+ strategy pillar 2 - empowerment
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  • Article
  • Slovenian Safer Internet Centre
  • 16 September 2025

The study "Safe internet use and parents" conducted by the Centre for Social Informatics at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana in the summer of 2024 shows that a significant proportion of Slovenian parents do not adhere to professional recommendations regarding the age at which children should access the internet, and the extent of daily internet use.
Four aligned boxes of increasing height and different colours with the writing "Knowledge hub: Rules and guidelines".
  • Rule and guideline
  • advertising/commercialism

The Advertising Code for Social Media & Influencer Marketing is a self-regulatory extension of the Dutch Advertising Code that ensures advertising via social media is clearly recognizable and transparent, requiring explicit disclosure of any relevant relationship between influencers and advertisers. It also prohibits deceptive practices like using fake followers or undisclosed sponsorships and mandates additional safeguards when content targets children or promotes alcohol.

(Source: Stichting Reclame Code)

 

  • Netherlands

  • Implemented 2022 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
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  • Rule and guideline
  • media literacy education, online reputation, digital and socia-cultural environment, hate speech

Fit for the Net is a nationwide, interactive 90‑minute training  programme for Luxembourg 7th graders embedded in the “Digital Sciences” curriculum, teaching safe, responsible, and critical internet use through real‑life scenarios and digital citizenship lessons.

(Source: Luxembourg - Policy monitor country profile, 2025).

Entities responsible for the implementation: Service National de la Jeunesse (SNJ), Ministry of Education, Children and Youth.

  • Luxembourg

  • Implemented 2022 - 2023
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 2 - empowerment
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  • Rule and guideline
  • digital and socia-cultural environment, content-related issues, advertising/commercialism

The French Law no. 2023-451 of June 9, 2023 sets out a legal framework for influencers, their agents, the advertisers and the platform that distributes their content. The law defines Influencers any “(…) natural or legal persons who, for a fee, mobilize their reputation among their audience to disseminate content to the public via electronic means. Their goal is to promote either directly or indirectly, goods, services or any cause. They engage in the activity of commercial influence through electronic means” (Article 1).  

  • France

  • Implemented 2023 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
Four aligned boxes of increasing height and different colours with the writing "Knowledge hub: Rules and guidelines".
  • Rule and guideline
  • advertising/commercialism

The German Advertising Council’s guidelines from the media authorities provides assistance with labeling requirements for advertising on social media platforms (such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, etc.) and other online media such as blogs and podcasts. The basis is the advertising rules of the Interstate Media Treaty (MStV) and the Digital Services Act (DDG), which serve to protect users from misleading advertising and make commercial content transparent. The guideline includes a labeling matrix.

  • Germany

  • Implemented 2023 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
Four aligned boxes of increasing height and different colours with the writing "Knowledge hub: Rules and guidelines".
  • Rule and guideline
  • advertising/commercialism

The Danish Consumer Ombudsman has published guidelines regarding marketing towards children and minors, including guidelines and recommendations on the labelling of commercial content.

  • Denmark

  • Implemented 2017 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
Four aligned boxes of increasing height and different colours with the writing "Knowledge hub: Rules and guidelines".
  • Rule and guideline
  • advertising/commercialism

The Influencer Code is a self-regulatory code published by the Association for Internet Development (SPIR) to guide influencers in transparent and responsible commercial content. Influencers are prohibited from misleading their audience by hiding sponsorships or pretending to have purchased sponsored products. Disclosures must comply with the requirements of the platform used, and in video content, the information must remain visible long enough for viewers to notice.

  • Czech Republic

  • Implemented 2022 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
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