(1) Media whose inclusion in the list of media endangering young persons has been published under section 24(3), first sentence may not, as carrier media,
1. be offered, transferred or otherwise made accessible to a child or young person,
2. be displayed, posted up, screened or otherwise made accessible at a place accessible to, or able to be viewed by, children or young persons,
3. be offered or transferred to another person in retail trade outside business premises, at kiosks or other points of sale not habitually entered by customers, by mail order, or in commercial lending libraries or reading circles,
4. be offered or transferred to another person by way of commercial rental or a comparable commercial grant of use, except in shops that are inaccessible to, and cannot be viewed by, children and young persons,
5. be imported by way of mail order,
6. be offered, announced or promoted publicly at a place accessible to, or able to be viewed by, children or young persons, or by disseminating carrier media or digital services outside the course of trade with the relevant trade,
7. be manufactured, obtained, delivered, kept in stock or imported, in order to use them, or excerpts derived from them, within the meaning of nos. 1 to 6, or to enable another person to make such use.
(1a) Media whose inclusion in the list of media endangering young persons has been published under section 24(3), first sentence may not, as content of a digital service, be screened at a place accessible to, or able to be viewed by, children or young persons.
(2) Carrier media that gravely endanger young persons are, without requiring inclusion in the list and publication, subject to the restrictions of paragraph 1 where they
1. have content of a kind described in section 86, 130, 130a, 131, 184, 184a, 184b or 184c of the Criminal Code,
2. glorify war,
3. depict, in a manner infringing human dignity, persons who are dying or have been or are being subjected to severe physical or mental suffering, and reproduce an actual occurrence, without a predominant legitimate interest existing specifically in that form of reporting, 3a. contain particularly realistic, cruel and sensationalist depictions of gratuitous violence that dominate the events depicted,
4. depict children or young persons in an unnatural, sexually suggestive posture, or
5. are manifestly capable of gravely endangering the development of children or young persons, or their upbringing into personally responsible and socially capable individuals.
(3) Carrier media that are, wholly or substantially, identical in content to a medium whose inclusion in the list has been published are also subject to the restrictions of paragraph 1, without requiring inclusion in the list and publication.
(4) The list of media endangering young persons may not be printed or published for the purpose of commercial advertising.
(5) In commercial advertising for carrier media, no reference may be made to the fact that proceedings for the inclusion of the medium, or of a medium identical in content, in the list are, or have been, pending.
(6) Insofar as delivery may be made, business operators must, before supplying to the trade, draw dealers' attention to the distribution restrictions of paragraph 1 nos. 1 to 6.
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Section 15
Media endangering young persons
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