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Commission proposal · 2026-09-17
COM(2026) 681 final — Proposal for the EU KIDS Act
Proposed legal text and explanatory memorandum
Commission Communication · 2026-09-17
COM(2026) 680 final — An EU approach to online child safety
Accompanying policy Communication; not operative legal text
Commission analysis of impacts · 2026-09-17
SWD(2026) 681 final — Analysis of impacts
Accompanying staff working document; not operative legal text
Current-law baseline · 2026-08-02
Directive (EU) 2020/1828 — Representative actions
Annex I, consolidated version of 2 August 2026; consolidation is a documentation tool
Imported definitions
The Article 3 lookups distinguish the proposal’s incorporation wording from the definitions quoted in these official HTML sources.
- Digital Services Act, Article 3 ↗
- Digital Markets Act, Article 2 ↗
- AI Act, Article 3 ↗
- Audiovisual Media Services Directive, Article 1(1)(aa) ↗ · consolidated 8 February 2025; onward reference from the DMA’s video-sharing definition.
Reading-context coverage
Source quotations are optional reading aids, not an official concordance or a replacement for the legal text. The memorandum’s detailed explanation accompanies all 43 articles. Communication section 2.1 accompanies Articles 6–7; analysis sections 3.2.1–3.2.6 accompany the corresponding measure groups.
Additional mapped sections
Commission proposal
- Section 1 · Reasons and objectives · Reasons and objectives — Article 1
- Section 1 · Existing policy provisions · Existing EU policy framework — Article 2
- Section 1 · Other Union policies · Other Union policies — Article 2, Article 33
- Section 2 · Legal basis and subsidiarity · Legal basis and subsidiarity — Article 1
- Section 2 · Proportionality · Proportionality and scope — Article 2, Article 6
- Section 3 · Fundamental rights · Fundamental rights — Article 28
- Section 4 · Budgetary implications — Article 36
- Section 5 · Implementation and monitoring · Monitoring and evaluation — Article 42
Commission Communication
- Section 2.2 · Safe design — Article 8
- Section 2.3 · Age verification — Article 27, Article 29
- Section 2.4 · Enforcement — Article 34, Article 36
- Section 3.1 · Complementary EU regulatory measures — Article 2
- Section 3.2 · Education and empowerment — Article 33
- Section 3.3 · Broader EU support measures — Article 33
- Section 3.4 · International cooperation — Article 33
- Section 3.5 · Monitoring — Article 42
Commission analysis of impacts
- Section 2.1 · Fragmentation of national rules — Article 1
- Section 2.2.1 · Risks to minors online — Article 8
- Section 2.2.2 · Age-specific risks — Article 6, Article 7
- Section 2.2.3 · Risks from AI systems — Article 14
- Section 2.2.4 · Risks from online games — Article 15
- Section 2.2.5 · Benefits of digital participation — Article 18
- Section 2.2.6 · The role of service design — Article 9, Article 10
- Section 2.2.7 · Compliance and protection gaps — Article 2, Article 5
- Section 2.3 · Age-assurance evidence and requirements — Article 27, Article 29
- Section 3.1 · Need for a harmonised approach — Article 1
- Section 3.2.7 · Special Panel recommendations — Article 42
- Section 3.3 · The wider regulatory framework — Article 2
- Section 4.1.1 · Direct health impacts — Article 6, Article 14
- Section 4.1.2 · Indirect health impacts — Article 9, Article 10
- Section 4.1.3 · Distributional effects — Article 8
- Section 4.1.4 · Risks and unintended effects — Article 6, Article 18, Article 42
- Section 4.1.5 · Mitigations and remaining limitations — Article 8, Article 22
- Section 4.2.1 · Rights of the child — Article 7, Article 18, Article 20
- Section 4.2.2 · Privacy and data protection — Article 28
- Section 4.2.3 · Expression and information — Article 6, Article 31
- Section 4.2.4 · Non-discrimination — Article 27, Article 31
- Section 4.2.5 · Proportionality — Article 6
- Section 4.3.1 · Overall economic assessment — Article 1
- Section 4.3.2.1 · Providers already aligned with DSA guidelines — Article 5, Article 8
- Section 4.3.2.2 · Age-assurance costs — Article 29, Article 31
- Section 4.3.2.3 · Small and micro enterprises · Small and micro enterprises — Article 2
- Section 4.3.2.3 · Software application stores and operating systems · App stores and operating systems — Article 16, Article 17, Article 32
- Section 4.3.2.3 · AI companions and chatbots · Costs for AI companions and chatbots — Article 14
- Section 4.3.2.3 · Online games · Costs for online games — Article 15
- Section 4.3.2.4 · Safety-by-design adjustments — Article 20, Article 21
- Section 4.3.3 · Costs for Member States — Article 26, Article 29, Article 33, Article 34
- Section 4.3.4.1 · Internal-market effects — Article 1
- Section 4.3.4.2 · Costs and resources for public authorities — Article 34, Article 36
- Section 4.3.4.3 · Innovation and competition — Article 2
- Section 4.3.4.4 · Long-term economic effects — Article 42
Material not reproduced in the sidebars
- com-2026-681 · Section 2 · Choice of instrument; Section 3 · Consultations and assessment methodology — Proposal-wide procedural background; available in the official document rather than repeated beside an article.
- com-2026-681 · Legislative financial and digital statement — Administrative and budget implementation detail outside the legal-body reader. The memorandum’s budget section is mapped to Article 36.
- com-2026-680 · Introduction; Section 2 overview; Section 4 conclusions — Package-wide framing and summary. The substantive sections 2.1–3.5 are mapped separately.
- swd-2026-681 · Section 1 · Introduction, regulatory framework and supporting evidence — Evidence inventory and methodology. Source citations are retained with each extracted passage, without reproducing this inventory in every sidebar.
- swd-2026-681 · Section 3.2 overview; introductory paragraphs in Sections 2 and 4; Section 5 conclusions — Overview and summary passages; substantive subsections are mapped separately to avoid repeated package-wide summaries.
- swd-2026-681 · Figures 1–4 — Figures are available in the official HTML; sidebar quotations reproduce text and tables, not graphical figures.