Protecting Children against Digital Harm – Novelties and Challenges of the Romanian Regulatory Framework

Series Legal Studies Issues Volume 14, No. 2, 2025 Protecting Children against Digital Harm – Novelties and Challenges of the Romanian Regulatory Framework

Volume 14, No. 2, 2025

Zsolt KOKOLY

Acta Univ. Sapientiae, Legal Studies, 14, 2 (2025) 33–59

DOI: 10.47745/AUSLEG.2025.14.2.02

Abstract. The paper conducts an analysis of children’s rights in Romanian legislation with a special focus on their application in a digital context. Legal novelties concerning children’s rights in the digital environment have begun to come into effect relatively recently, and the audiovisual and online media content landscape still experiences fluctuations in the process of normative evolution. Protection of children against digital harm is examined from multiple angles: the experiences in transposing European normative acts (developments following the application of the Digital Services Act and experiences for Romanian authorities and other organizations entrusted with the protection of children’s rights in the digital world); efforts of the Romanian lawmaker in improving school climate/creating a safe school environment with safe Internet use (legal provisions and institutional solutions originating from or applied in the educational process), as well as a series of legislative changes (the 2025 revision and amendment of the Regulatory Code on Audiovisual Media Content, or several legal projects). The paper aims to examine the newly existing normative framework also through the lens of pertinent case-law in order to assess the efficiency of these legal instruments and to evaluate institutional responses and practices.

Keywords: children’s rights, Romanian law, digital environment, audiovisual media and online content, data protection, digital harm, safe Internet for children

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Volume 14, No. 2, 2025

Rule of Law: Supranationalization from the Perspective of Slovakia, Lilla GARAYOVÁ Protecting Children against Digital Harm – Novelties and Challenges of the Romanian Regulatory Framework, Zsolt KOKOLY Poland’s Experience in the Face of the Rule of Law Dispute: From 2015 to 2024, Artur KOTOWSKI ‘The Expropriation of the Expropriators’: Soviet- Type Nationalization as Social Engineering in Selected East-Central European States, Bence Zsolt KOVÁCS Rule of Law: Supranationalization from the Perspective of Central and Eastern European Countries. The Case of Hungary, Péter KRUZSLICZ Rule of Law: Supranationalization from the Perspective of Bulgaria, Deyana MARCHEVA Re-evaluated or Just Old-New? The Fundamental Social Rights Dimension of the Right to Work under Article 15 CFREU and in the Case-Law of the CJEU, Zsófia PAPP The Experience of Certain Central European Countries with the Rule of Law Procedures. The Case of the Czech Republic, David SEHNÁLEK Rule of Law: Supranationalization from the Perspective of Central and Eastern European Countries (Ukraine), Stanislav SHEVCHUK The Rule of Law: Supranationalization. The Case of Serbia, Bojan TUBIC Legal Challenges of Hybrid Warfare: Accountability of Mercenaries and Private Military Companies, Csongor Balázs VERESS Rule of Law: Supranationalization from the Perspective of Central and Eastern European Countries – Montenegro1, Nebojša VUČINIĆ, Sanja GRBOVIĆ Front pages in PDF, Inside covers in PDF,

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