[pitaj]

I can't confirm without knowing what country you live in. I understand essentially the whole EU requires this, and the US is one example where the checks aren't required.

[JI00912]

How would you confirm though? So far I'm seeing a lot of rumors but no one seems have produced any actual legislation that I can see anyway.

[ldjb]

This is covered by the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2018/1808. EU member states were supposed to transpose this into national legislation by 19 September 2020, but not all have.

You can see the status for each EU member state here:

https://www.obs.coe.int/en/web/observatoire/avmsd-tracking