Age Verification: The CJEU Reminds France of the Limits of the E-Commerce Directive
Following a referral by the Council of State, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified the conditions under which a Member State may impose its own rules on platforms established in other Member States, particularly with regard to age verification. On June 16, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgment in joined cases C-188/24 and C-190/24, two preliminary rulings requested by the Conseil d’État concerning, respectively, age verification on pornographic websites and the anti-tip-off system for traffic stops, targeting Coyote in particular. In the case involving pornographic websites, the question was whether France could… impose general age verification obligations on publishers established in other Member States based on its national law. The companies concerned, based in the Czech Republic, challenged the formal notices…