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Strengthened efforts against sexually abusive material

Official title (in Danish): Lov om ændring af straffeloven, retsplejeloven og lov om Offerfonden (Styrket indsats mod seksuelt krænkende materiale m.v.)

Act · L 184 (2024-25) · Lov nr. 722 af 20.06.2025 · Justitsministeriet

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  • What changes: The Criminal Code is expanded so that more forms of sexually abusive material can be punished, including computer-generated material and deepfakes.
  • Who: Persons who produce, share or possess sexual material involving persons under 18 years old or create deepfakes of real persons. Additionally the police and the country's victim counseling services.
  • When: The Act entered into force on 1 July 2025.

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The act expands the Criminal Code's rules on sexual material with persons under 18 years. The rules now also apply to so-called posing pictures and videos. Computer-generated sexual material can also be punished if it appears realistic as a whole – even if one can see that it is computer-generated.

Posing pictures are pictures or videos without naked genitalia or sexual touching, where the person is clearly shown in a sexualizing manner. It can also be punished as an insult to modesty to share everyday pictures of persons under 18 years in a sexualizing context.

The Criminal Code's rule on identity abuse is expanded. It now also includes producing manipulated sexual material with real persons, so-called deepfake pornographic material.

The police get the opportunity to share fake sexual material depicting persons under 18 years. According to the bill, this should strengthen the police's opportunities to investigate and identify suspected perpetrators.

Certain lawbreakers must pay a victim contribution to the Victim Fund. Part of the money can now be used for grants to the operation of the country's victim counseling services.

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The case at the Danish Parliament (ft.dk)

Source: Retsinformation.dk

Translated from Danish · The Danish version and the original source apply.

Summary by the Danish Parliament (in Danish)

Formålet med lovforslaget er primært at styrke indsatsen mod seksuelt krænkende materiale, herunder seksuelt materiale med børn. Lovforslaget indeholder tre elementer, som har baggrund i forslag fra Red Barnet. Det drejer sig for det første om en udvidelse af straffelovens bestemmelser om seksuelt materiale med personer under 18 år, så bestemmelserne også omfatter såkaldte poseringsbilleder og -videoer. For det andet drejer det sig om en udvidelse af straffelovens bestemmelser om seksuelt materiale med personer under 18 år, så fremstilling, udbredelse og besiddelse af computergenereret seksuelt materiale, herunder materiale som f.eks. er skabt ved brug af kunstig intelligens, kan straffes efter bestemmelserne. For det tredje drejer det sig om en tydeliggørelse af, at deling af hverdagsbilleder m.v. af personer under 18 år i en seksualiseret sammenhæng kan straffes som en overtrædelse af straffelovens bestemmelse om blufær­dighed­skrænkelse. Lovforslaget indeholder endvidere et element, som har baggrund i et forslag fra Digitalt Ansvar og Institut for Men­nesker­ettigheder, og som indebærer, at straffelovens bestemmelse om identitetsmisbrug udvides, så bestemmelsen også kommer til at omfatte fremstilling af manipuleret seksuelt materiale med virkelige personer. Det foreslås herudover at give politiet mulighed for at dele uægte seksuelt materiale, der forestiller personer under 18 år, for at styrke politiets muligheder for effektivt at kunne efterforske og identificere mistænkte gerningspersoner i bl.a. sager om seksuelle overgreb mod børn. Endelig foreslås det at give mulighed for, at en del af de offerbidrag, der ifølge lov om Offerfonden skal betales af visse lovovertrædere, forlods via finansloven kan anvendes til tilskud til bl.a. drift og administration af landets offerrådgivninger. Det foreslås, at loven træder i kraft den 1. juli 2025.

Source: Folketinget (ft.dk). Reproduced unchanged.

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  1. Introduced · 28 March 2025
    Status in the Danish Parliament: Fremsat
  2. Passed · 27 May 2025
    Status in the Danish Parliament: 3.beh./Vedtaget
  3. Stadfæstet · 20 June 2025
    Status in the Danish Parliament: Stadfæstet
  4. In force · 1 July 2025
    Status in the Danish Parliament: Stadfæstet