Protection of minors
AGE VERIFICATION for YOUTH PROTECTION ( protection-of-minors )
Confirm your AGE please – preferably with a customer account !
So that you may buy alcohol in a store, you must be at least 18 years old. Below we have included an excerpt from the Youth Protection Act as displayed in stores. But how does it work for online purchases?
It has unfortunately not yet been finally passed. Therefore, we try to secure it as well as technically possible. But we must be absolutely sure that you are at least 18 years old are.
For this reason, when setting up your customer account, you must prove your age of majority once. If you buy as a guest, you must repeat this process every time. Fortunately, it is very quick.
Our deliveries are made with DHL age verification 18 years !
Youth Protection Act (JuSchG) as of 1 January 2018
Excerpt from the law of 23 July 2002 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 2730), last amended by Article 11 of the law of 10 March 2017 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 420)
Section 1 Definitions
(Excerpt) (1) Within the meaning of this Act, 1. children are persons who are not yet 14 years old, 2. young people are persons who are 14 but not yet 18 years old, 3. person with parental responsibility is anyone who, alone or together with another person, has parental responsibility under the provisions of the German Civil Code, 4. person entrusted with upbringing is any person over 18 years of age who, on a permanent or temporary basis, performs educational duties on the basis of an agreement with the person with parental responsibility or who supervises a child or young person in the context of education or youth welfare.
Section 4 Restaurants
(1) Children and young people under 16 may only be allowed to stay in restaurants if accompanied by a person with parental responsibility or a person entrusted with upbringing, or if they are having a meal or a drink between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. Young people aged 16 and over may not be allowed to stay in restaurants without being accompanied by a person with parental responsibility or a person entrusted with upbringing between midnight and 5 a.m. (2) Paragraph 1 does not apply if children or young people are taking part in an event run by a recognised youth welfare organisation or are travelling. (3) Children and young people may not be allowed to stay in restaurants operated as night bars or nightclubs, or in comparable amusement businesses. (4) The competent authority may approve exceptions to paragraph 1.
Section 5 Dance events
(1) Children and young people under 16 may not be allowed to attend public dance events without being accompanied by a person with parental responsibility or a person entrusted with upbringing, and young people aged 16 and over may be allowed to stay only until midnight. (2) By way of derogation from paragraph 1, children may be allowed to stay until 10 p.m. and young people under 16 until midnight if the dance event is organised by a recognised youth welfare organisation or serves artistic activity or the preservation of customs. (3) The competent authority may approve exceptions.
Section 6 Amusement arcades,
gambling (1) Children and young people may not be allowed to be present in public amusement arcades or similar premises used mainly for gaming. (2) Participation in games with a chance of winning in public may only be allowed for children and young people at folk festivals, shooting festivals, fairs, special markets or similar events, and only on the condition that the prize consists of products of low value.
Section 7 Youth-endangering events and businesses
If a public event or commercial enterprise poses a risk to the physical, mental or emotional well-being of children or young people, the competent authority may order that the organiser or business operator may not allow children and young people to be present. The order may include age limits, time limits or other conditions if this removes the risk or reduces it significantly.
Section 8 Places harmful to young people
If a child or young person is staying at a place where there is an immediate danger to their physical, mental or emotional well-being, the competent authority or body responsible must take the measures necessary to avert the danger. If necessary, it must 1. instruct the child or young person to leave the place, 2. take them to the person entitled to care and custody within the meaning of Section 7(1) No. 6 of Book Eight of the Social Code, or, if no such person can be reached, place them in the care of the youth welfare office. In difficult cases, the competent authority or body must inform the youth welfare office about the place harmful to young people. Section 9 Alcoholic beverages
(1) In restaurants, retail outlets or elsewhere in public, 1. beer, wine, wine-like beverages or sparkling wine, or mixtures of beer, wine, wine-like beverages or sparkling wine with non-alcoholic drinks may not be sold or served to children and young people under 16, 2. other alcoholic beverages or food containing other alcoholic beverages in more than negligible amounts may neither be sold nor may their consumption be permitted to children and young people. (2) Paragraph 1 No. 1 does not apply if young people are accompanied by a person with parental responsibility. (3) Alcoholic beverages may not be sold through vending machines in public. This does not apply if a vending machine 1. is installed in a place inaccessible to children and young people, or 2. is installed in a commercial space and technical devices or constant supervision ensure that children and young people cannot obtain alcoholic beverages. Section 20 No. 1 of the Restaurants Act remains unaffected. (4) Alcoholic sweet drinks within the meaning of Section 1 (2) and (3) of the Alcopop Tax Act may be marketed commercially only with the notice "Sale prohibited to persons under 18 years of age, Section 9 Youth Protection Act". This notice must be kept on the ready-to-sell package in the same typeface and in the same size and colour as the brand or fantasy names or, if none exist, as the product description, and must be affixed to bottles on the front label.
Section 10 Smoking in public,
tobaccoproducts (1) In restaurants, retail outlets or elsewhere in public, tobaccoproducts and other nicotine-containing products and their containers may neither be sold nor may children or young people be allowed to smoke or consume nicotine-containing products. (2) Tobaccoproducts and other nicotine-containing products and their containers may not be sold through vending machines in public. This does not apply if a vending machine 1. is installed in a place inaccessible to children and young people, or 2. technical devices or constant supervision ensure that children and young people cannot obtain tobaccoproducts and other nicotine-containing products and their containers. (3) Tobaccoproducts and other nicotine-containing products and their containers may neither be offered to children and young people by mail order nor sold to children and young people by mail order.
(4) Paragraphs 1 to 3 also apply to nicotine-free products such as electronic cigarettes or electronic shishas in which liquid is vaporised by an electronic heating element and the resulting aerosols are inhaled through the mouth, as well as to their containers.
Section 11 Film screenings
(1) Children and young people may only be allowed to attend public film screenings if the films have been approved for screening before them by the highest state authority or by a voluntary self-regulation organisation within the procedure under Section 14(6), or if they are information, instruction and teaching films marked by the provider as "infoprogram" or "teaching program". (2) By way of derogation from paragraph 1, children from the age of six may also be allowed to attend public film screenings of films approved and marked for children and young people aged twelve and over, provided they are accompanied by a person with parental responsibility. (3) Without prejudice to the requirements of paragraph 1, attendance at public film screenings may only be allowed with accompaniment by a person with parental responsibility or a person entrusted with upbringing for 1. children under six years of age, 2. children from six years of age if the screening ends after 8 p.m., 3. young people under 16 if the screening ends after 10 p.m., 4. young people aged 16 and over if the screening ends after midnight. (4) Paragraphs 1 to 3 apply to the public screening of films regardless of the type of recording and playback. They also apply to trailers and supporting programmes. They do not apply to films produced for non-commercial purposes as long as the films are not used commercially. (5) Advertising films or promotional programmes advertising tobacco products or alcoholic beverages may, notwithstanding the requirements of paragraphs 1 to 4, only be shown after 6 p.m.
Section 12 Media containing films or games
(1) Recorded video cassettes and other data carriers suitable for distribution and programmed for playback on or gameplay on screen devices with films or games (media) may only be made accessible to a child or young person in public if the programmes have been approved and marked for their age group by the highest state authority or a voluntary self-regulation organisation within the procedure under Section 14(6), or if they are information, instruction and teaching programmes marked by the provider as "infoprogram" or "teaching program". (2) The markings under paragraph 1 must be indicated on the media and the packaging with a clearly visible symbol. The symbol must be applied to the front of the packaging on the bottom left on an area of at least 1,200 square millimetres and on the media on an area of at least 250 square millimetres. The highest state authority may 1. order further details regarding the content, size, shape, colour and placement of the symbols and 2. approve exceptions for placement on the media or packaging. 3. Providers of telemedia distributing films, film and game programmes must clearly indicate any existing rating in their offering. (3) Media that are not marked or are marked with "No youth rating" pursuant to Section 14(2) by the highest state authority or a voluntary self-regulation organisation within the procedure under Section 14(6) or under Section 14(7) by the provider may 1. not be offered, transferred or otherwise made accessible to a child or young person, 2. not be offered or transferred in retail trade outside business premises, in kiosks or other sales outlets that customers do not normally enter, or by mail order. (4) Vending machines for the sale of recorded media may only be installed 1. in public traffic areas accessible to children or young people, 2. outside premises used commercially or otherwise for professional or business purposes, or 3. in their unattended entrances, lobbies or corridors if only media marked under Section 14(2) Nos. 1 to 4 are offered and technical safeguards ensure that they cannot be operated by children and young people for whose age group their programmes are not approved under Section 14(2) Nos. 1 to 4. (5) Media containing excerpts from film and game programmes may, by way of derogation from paragraphs 1 and 3, be distributed together with periodicals only if they bear a notice from the provider stating clearly that a voluntary self-regulation organisation has determined that these excerpts do not contain any content harmful to young people. The notice must be affixed both to the periodical and to the media before distribution with a clearly visible symbol. Paragraph 2 sentences 1 to 3 apply accordingly. The highest state authority may exclude the entitlement under sentence 1 for individual providers.
Section 13 Screen game devices (1) Playing on electronic screen game devices without a chance of winning, which are set up in public, may only be allowed to children and young people without accompaniment by a person with parental responsibility or a person entrusted with upbringing if the programmes have been approved and marked for their age group by the highest state authority or a voluntary self-regulation organisation within the procedure under Section 14(6), or if they are information, instruction or teaching programmes marked by the provider as "infoprogram" or "teaching program". (2) Electronic screen game devices may only be installed 1. in public traffic areas accessible to children or young people, 2. outside premises used commercially or otherwise for professional or business purposes, or 3. in their unattended entrances, lobbies or corridors if their programmes are approved and marked for children aged six and over or are marked under Section 14(7) as "infoprogram" or "teaching program". (3) Section 12(2) sentences 1 to 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the affixing of markings on screen game devices. Section 28 Administrative offence provisions (Excerpt) (5) The administrative offence may be punished by a fine of up to fifty thousand euros.
