Article 29 (page 60) requires the use of a government-certified age verification solution, so this also creates a corrupt cottage industry of government-affiliated data brokers.
Someone wants a regulatory moat, badly.
The maximum penalty for non-compliance is 6% of the provider's previous year's “annual worldwide turnover” (Regulation 2022/2065, chapter IV, article 52, incorporated by reference).
One wonders what exactly counts as “turnover” for some guy with a day job who collects a trickle of donations, or a registered nonprofit funded entirely by donations. Functionally a 6% tax on those donations, I guess?