Stakeholder Summary >> Liechtenstein, Review Documentation, 43rd Session, May 2023

Concerning the second monitoring round about “Protecting children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse: Addressing the challenges raised by child self-generated sexual images and/or videos”, CoE-Lanzarote Committee recommended Liechtenstein to ensure ensure in its legal framework that a child will not be prosecuted in case of possessing his/her own self-generated sexually suggestive or explicit images and/or videos or of another child with the informed consent of the child depicted on them or in case of passively receiving those material. Moreover, not prosecuting the child in case of sharing such material with the consent and with the intention of being only for private use. CoE-Lanzarote Committee added that prosecution of the child in case of self-generated material identified as child pornography as of Art. 20 (2) of the Lanzarote Convention should be intended as a last resort. [Para 48]