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From · Plenary report · 26 May 2025 A-10-2025-0097 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)

To · Adopted text · 17 Jun 2025 TA-10-2025-0116 Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)

✦ In short · AI narration of the differences below, generated 4 Sept 2026

Adds a new offence: disseminating pornographic content without age verification tools becomes punishable by at least one year's imprisonment. #4 The other changes are formal: updated citations to Directive 2012/29/EU and Regulation 2019/816, and minor wording or punctuation fixes. #1 #2 #3 #5

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Change #4 Substance

Adds a new paragraph 2a to Article 3, making dissemination of pornographic content without robust age verification punishable by at least 1 year imprisonment.

Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new): 2a. Disseminating pornographic content online without putting in place robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prevent children from accessing pornographic content online shall be punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least 1 year.