Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2022/0155(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse
Amendments (11)
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) In order to effectively prevent child sexual abuse, Member States should: plan intervention by public and community bodies in the prevention of child exploitation and sexual abuse; implement effective intervention measures aimed at preventing risks of acts of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse against children; organise specific education campaigns on the protection and rights of children; implement actions to disseminate administrative measures, policies and social programmes with the aim of preventing the occurrence of acts of child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse; develop public awareness programmes through the media, on the phenomenon of sexual exploitation and on child sexual abuse, having regard to age and gender; ensure the promotion of policies to prevent child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, particularly in the areas of Justice, Education, Health and Social Action; establish and disseminate effective social programmes to support victims, their families and any person to whom they are entrusted; enhance active social responses and multidisciplinary structures aimed at providing support to victims, with the necessary protection and assistance measures.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Therefore, this Regulation should directly contribute to the proper functioning of the internal market by setting outestablishing clear, uniform and balanced rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse in a manner that is effective and that respects the fundamental rights of all parties concerned. In view of the fast-changing nature of the services concerned and the technologies used to provide them, those rules should be laid down in technology-neutral and future- proof manner, so as not to hamper innovation. It should also contribute to raising awareness of the broad scope of the phenomenon of minor sexual abuse, which can not only include children of different ages, genders and social, cultural and economic backgrounds, but also has a particular impact on the close and extended family circle.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) In order to effectively prevent child sexual abuse, Member States should enhance all preventive measures, in particular, providing existing mechanisms, such as means for monitoring risk situations and identifying problems; Member States should also speed up the justice system assessment and response, carry out a rapid psychological assessment, protect children from contact with the abuser and support the family; it is also necessary to ensure priority mechanisms for continuous, universal and free therapeutic support to child victims, who can benefit from it throughout their lives, and to provide capacity to public health systems.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) The dissemination of child sexual abuse material is a criminal offence that affects the rights of the victims depicted. Victims should therefore have the right to obtain, upon request, from the EU Centre yet via the Coordinating Authorities, relevant information if known child sexual abuse material depicting them is reported by providers of hosting services or providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services in accordance with this Regulation. Online service providers, including social network platforms, should adopt mandatory procedures in order to effectively prevent, detect and report child sexual abuse that occurs on their services and remove child sexual abuse material
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) Given the impact on the rights of victims depicted in such known child sexual abuse material and the typical ability of providers of hosting services to limit that impact by helping ensure that the material is no longer available on their services, those providers should assist victims who request the removal or disabling of access of the material in question. That assistance should remain limited to what can reasonably be asked from the provider concerned under the given circumstances, having regard to factors such as the content and scope of the request, the steps needed to locate the items of known child sexual abuse material concerned and the means available to the provider. The assistance could consist, for example, of helping to locate the items, carrying out checks and removing or disabling access to the items. Considering that carrying out the activities needed to obtain such removal or disabling of access can be painful or even traumatic as well as complex, victims should also have the right to be assisted by the EU Centre in this regard, via the Coordinating Authorities, taking into account vulnerabilities and psychological effects on victims.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37 a (new)
Recital 37 a (new)
(37a) Member States should ensure and safeguard the existence of effective mechanisms for reporting child sexual abuse and that such investigative tools are effectively used to identify victims and rescue them as quickly as possible from ongoing abuse;
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 66
Recital 66
(66) With a view to contributing to the effective application of this Regulation and the protection of victims’ rights, the EU Centre should be able, upon request, to support victims and to assist Competent Authorities by conducting searches of hosting services for the dissemination of known child sexual abuse material that is publicly accessible, using the corresponding indicators. Where it identifies such material after having conducted such a search, the EU Centre should also be able to request the provider of the hosting service concerned to remove or disable access to the item or items in question, given that the provider may not be aware of their presence and may be willing to do so on a voluntary basis. The EU Centre should support Member States in conducting studies, with nationally representative samples, on child sexual abuse in their socialisation spaces, in order to structure preventive and multidisciplinary response measures.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 75
Recital 75
(75) In the interest of transparency and accountability and to enable evaluation and, where necessary, adjustments, providers of hosting services, providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services and providers of internet access services, Coordinating Authorities and the EU Centre should be required to collect, record and analyse data disaggregated by gender, age and social, cultural and economic background as well as information, based on anonymised gathering of non-personal data and to publish annual reports on their activities under this Regulation. The Coordinating Authorities should cooperate with Europol and with law enforcement authorities and other relevant national authorities of the Member State that designated the Coordinating Authority in question in gathering that information.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 77
Recital 77
(77) The evaluation should be based on the criteria of efficiency, necessity, effectiveness, proportionality, relevance, coherence and Union added value. It should assess the functioning of the different operational and technical measures provided for by this Regulation, including the effectiveness of measures to enhance the detection, reporting and removal of online child sexual abuse, the effectiveness of safeguard mechanisms as well as the impacts on potentially affected fundamental rights, children’s rights the freedom to conduct a business, the right to private life and the protection of personal data. The Commission should also assess the impact on potentially affected interests of third parties.
Amendment 401 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20.º – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
Article 20.º – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
da information regarding age- appropriate and gender-sensitive victim support services to provide the child, family and survivors with adequate health, emotional and psychosocial support as well as practical and legal assistance.
Amendment 433 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Article 25 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a The EU Centre should support Member States in the introduction and implementation in formal education of sex education programmes, that promote the empowerment of children to be agents of their own protection: concepts of the body and its boundaries, concepts of intimacy and privacy, and the ability to verbalise and state what happened to those to whom they are closest emotionally or to whom they feel more connected.