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[FYI] EU moves against illegal and harmful content online



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DN: IP/03/774     Date: 28/05/2003

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    IP/03/774

    Brussels, 28 May 2003

    EU moves against illegal and harmful content online

As part of Europe's determined effort to tackle illegal and harmful 
content on the Internet and new delivery platforms such as mobile 
phones, a two year extension to the Safer Internet Action Plan has 
been adopted by the European Parliament and Council upon the proposal 
of the European Commission.  

To better equip parents and children with the tools and awareness 
they need for daily life in an Information Society, the EU Council 
has agreed with the European Parliament to accept the Commission's 
proposal for a two-year extension to the Safer Internet Action Plan. 
This is the EU's response to tackling the controversial issue of 
illegal and harmful content on the Internet. The Action plan supports 
a network of hotlines in Europe where illegal content can be 
reported. It encourages self-regulation; benchmarks content filtering 
and rating systems and supports a European network of safer internet 
awareness centres.  

Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Enterprise and the 
Information Society, said: "It is important that everyone, including 
parents understand the Internet, and in particular the way their 
children can use it. The extension of our Internet Action Plan is an 
important step in this direction."  

The extended Safer Internet Action Plan includes measures to 
encourage exchange of information and co-ordination with the relevant 
actors at national level, and has special provisions for accession 
countries. Actors in the field of self-regulation are brought 
together through a forum - the Safer Internet Forum - modelled on the 
EU cyber-crime forum. The extended action plan covers many different 
types of illegal content or conduct including racist material, and 
takes account of new online technologies such as mobile and broadband 
content, online games, peer-to-peer file transfer and all forms of 
real-time communications such as chat rooms and instant messages. The 
networks of hotlines and awareness nodes continue to be key 
instruments of the programme, alongside the benchmarking of filtering 
software.  

First calls for proposals under the Safer Internet Action Plan (€13.3 
million.) will be launched in July 2003.  

    Further information

    http://europa.eu.int/iap

    http://www.saferinternet.org

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