A. Commission legislative package
The controlling source for proposed obligations, scope, enforcement and application. Official EUR-Lex record · Local PDF
Policy context and the Commission’s wider online-child-safety programme. Official package page · Local PDF
Problem definition, evidence, options and expected impacts. It does not override the proposal. Official package page · Local PDF
B. Official Commission explainers
A non-technical overview of the Commission’s proposal. The legislative text prevails where wording is simplified. Official explainer · Local PDF
Summary of the proposal’s main pillars and policy context. Official overview · Local PDF
A short visual summary intended for general audiences; use the proposal for legal detail. Official policy page · Local PDF
C. Background and implementation
Expert recommendations and evidence; not the Commission’s legal position. Official Commission page · Local PDF
Existing DSA guidance on a high level of privacy, safety and security for minors on online platforms. Official text · Local PDF
Pre-existing framework for privacy-preserving age-verification technology. A recommendation is not the proposed KIDS Act. Official text · Local PDF
D. Related existing EU law
Provides imported definitions and much of the proposed enforcement architecture.
Provides AI definitions and the supervisory framework used for covered AI systems.
Source of several service and operating-system definitions imported by the proposal.
European Digital Identity Wallet and trust-services framework relevant to proof-of-age attestations.
Data-protection concepts, lawful-processing context, supervision and penalty framework.
Existing collective consumer-redress framework referenced by Article 21 and proposed for amendment.
Existing technical context for age-verification and European Digital Identity arrangements.
E. Legislative-process documents
Authoritative public timeline checked on 18 September 2026. It recorded Commission adoption as the only completed event.
The Commission’s starting text for Parliament and Council scrutiny.
No Parliament position, Council position, provisional agreement or adopted act is yet listed because none was present in the official record checked. See the current-status page.