What changed
Parliament rejects the proposed extension of Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 and asks the Commission to withdraw the proposal. #1
1 change of substance. Each change below carries a one-line ✦ note from the same model. Written from the two texts only — read the highlighted passages before relying on it.
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Change #1 Substance
Rejects the Commission proposal and calls on the Commission to withdraw it, thereby not extending the regulation's application period.
Article -1 (new), Article 3 - paragraph 1 - point a: Article -1 / In Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/1232, point (a) is replaced by the following: / (i) strictly necessary for the use of specific technology for the sole purpose of detecting and removing known online child sexual abuse material and reporting it to law enforcement authorities and to organisations acting in the public interest against child sexual abuse; / (iii) limited to content data that are strictly necessary for the purpose set out in point (i); / (v) not applied to interpersonal communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been or will be applied;
Regulation (EU) 2021/1232
Article -1 a (new), Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i a (new): Article -1a / In Article 3(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2021/1232, the following point is inserted: / “(ia) targeted, specified and limited to individual users, a specific group of users, either as such or as subscribers to a specific channel of communication, in respect of whom there are reasonable grounds of suspicion for a link, even an indirect one, with child sexual abuse material, and which have been identified by the competent judicial authority;”
Regulation (EU) 2021/1232
Article -1 b (new), Article 3 - paragraph 1 - point b: Article -1b / In Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/1232, point (b) is replaced by the following: / (b) the technologies used for the purpose set out in point (a)(i) of this paragraph are in accordance with the state of the art in the industry and are the least privacy-intrusive, including with regard to the principle of data protection by design and by default laid down in Article 25 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and, to the extent that they are used to scan text in communications, they are not able to deduce the substance of the content of the communications but are solely able to detect patterns which point to possible online child sexual abuse, and, where such technologies are used for the detection of solicitation of children or previously unidentified online child sexual abuse material, such use shall be limited to cases where the provider has received a concrete report or notification from a user, a trusted flagger, or an organisation acting in the public interest against child sexual abuse concerning a specific communication, account or interaction indicating a reasonable suspicion of online child sexual abuse, and the detection shall be strictly limited to what is necessary in relation to that reported case.
Regulation (EU) 2021/1232
Article 1 – paragraph 1, Article 10 - second subparagraph: It shall apply until 3 August 2027.
1. Rejects the Commission proposal;
2. Calls on the Commission to withdraw its proposal;