\u201cI see three steps on the EU level: mandatory legal requirement for age verification, a ban on harmful and addictive practices for minors and stronger enforcement,\u201d she told POLITICO.<\/p>\n
Denmark has imposed a ban on smartphones in schools since February, following France\u2019s lead in 2018. A similar ban in Belgium came into effect this month.<\/p>\n
Five EU countries \u2014 Denmark, Greece, France, Italy and Spain \u2014 are testing a European Commission age verification app, a new system designed to protect children online.<\/p>\n
Last year, Ireland\u2019s Department of Health established an online health task force to examine the links between specific types of online activity and physical and mental health harms to children and young people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also developing a strategic public health response to these harms, which it will bring forward in its final report next month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Von der Leyen suggested she would wait to decide on EU-wide measures until she had received analysis of the Australian policy. It\u2019s unclear how long European experts will have to do that, given that it comes into force in Australia on Dec. 10, and she wants the panel\u2019s recommendations by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI see three steps on the EU level: mandatory legal requirement for age verification, a ban on harmful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1789,32409,365,2000,299,5187,1699,36,1450,2199,218,2341,1093,182,104,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-419173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-childrens-health","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-greece","17":"tag-italy","18":"tag-mental-health","19":"tag-prevention","20":"tag-public-health","21":"tag-social-media","22":"tag-spain","23":"tag-sweden"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115192902668572767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}