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| 29. | The most common age assurance measures currently available and applied by online platforms fall into three broad categories: self-declaration, age estimation, and age verification. (a) Self-declaration consists of methods that rely on the individual to supply their age or confirm their age range, either by voluntarily providing their date of birth or age, or by declaring themselves to be above a certain age, typically by clicking on a button online. (b) Age estimation consists of methods which allow a provider to establish that a user is likely to be of a certain age, to fall within a certain age range, or to be over or under a certain age (33). (c) Age verification is a system that relies on physical identifiers or verified sources of identification that provide a high degree of certainty in determining the age of a user.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.