European Union: Australian eSafety Commissioner, European Union DG CNECT, and United Kingdom Ofcom announced Joint Statement on trilateral cooperation on age assurance

On 10 November 2025, the Australian eSafety Commissioner, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), and the United Kingdom's Office of Communications (Ofcom) announced a joint commitment to strengthen global cooperation on child online safety. The three regulators committed to implementing, supervising, and enforcing their respective online safety legislation, taking into account children's rights and well-being. The three regulators collectively aim to ensure platforms assess and mitigate risks to children, and deploy effective age assurance mechanisms to protect against harmful content and risky functionalities. Such age assurance mechanisms must also preserve privacy. The regulators also pledged to work closely with civil society organisations and academia in developing and implementing their online safety regulatory functions. They intend to use relevant regulatory tools to ensure children have safe, inclusive, and empowering access to digital technologies to enable the development of media literacy, critical thinking, and digital skills. The statement also outlined a deeper partnership on age assurance through the establishment of a technical trilateral cooperation group to explore, among other things, the interoperability of age assurance solutions and best practices for evaluating age assurance deployments and their robustness.