Activities of Andrey SLABAKOV 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 (12)
Amendment 49 #
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 receive free immediate psychological support or support of any other professionals and to be assisted by the EU Centre in this regard, via the Coordinating Authorities.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) To ensure the efficient management of such victim support functions, victims should be well informed about the existence of such centres and be allowed to contact and rely on the Coordinating Authority that is most accessible to them, which should channel all communications between victims and the EU Centre.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38
Recital 38
(38) For the purpose of facilitating the exercise of the victims’ right to information and of assistance and support for fast removal or disabling of access, vas well as the necessary measures to ensure any other materials of similar nature would not appear in the future. Victims should be allowed to indicate the relevant item or items of child sexual abuse material in respect of which they are seeking to obtain information or removal or disabling of access either by means of providing the image or images or the video or videos themselves, or by means of providing the uniform resource locators leading to the specific item or items of child sexual abuse material, or by means of any other representation allowing for the unequivocal identification of the item or items in question.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 60
Recital 60
(60) In the interest of legal certainty and effectiveness, the tasks of the EU Centre should be listed in a clear and comprehensive manner. With a view to ensuring the proper implementation of this Regulation, those tasks should relate in particular to the facilitation of the detection, reporting and blocking obligations imposed on providers of hosting services, providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services and providers of internet access services. However, for that same reason, the EU Centre should also be charged with certain other tasks, notably those relating to the implementation of the risk assessment and mitigation obligations of providers of relevant information society services, monitoring of internet forums, the removal of or disabling of access to child sexual abuse material as well as preventing reappearance of such materials by providers of hosting services, the provision of assistance to Coordinating Authorities, as well as the generation of research and sharing of knowledge and expertise related to online child sexual abuse, including on successful initiatives and good practices on digital skills and competences, including media literacy.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 62
Recital 62
(62) For the system established by this Regulation to function properly, the EU Centre should be charged with creating databases for each of those three types of online child sexual abuse, and with maintaining and operating those databases. For accountability purposes and to allow for corrections where needed, it should keep records of the submissions and the process used for the generation of the indicators.
Amendment 67 #
(65) In order to avoid erroneous reporting of online child sexual abuse under this Regulation and to allow law enforcement authorities to focus on their core investigatory tasks, reports should pass through the EU Centre. The EU Centre should immediately assess thoseall reports in order to identify those that are manifestly unfounded, that is, where it is immediately evident, without any substantive legal or factual analysis, that the reported activities do not constitute online child sexual abuse. Where the report is manifestly unfounded, the EU Centre should provide official feedback to the reporting provider of hosting services or provider of publicly available interpersonal communications services in order to allow for improvements in the technologies and processes used and for other appropriate steps, such as reinstating material wrongly removed. As every report could be an important means to investigate and prosecute the child sexual abuse offences concerned and to rescue the victim of the abuse, reports should be processed as quickly as possible.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 74
Recital 74
(74) (74) In view of the essential need for technical expertise in order to perform its tasks, in particular the task of providing a list of technologies, including software, that can be used for fast detection, the EU Centre should have a Technology Committee composed of experts with advisory function, which should take into account Member States' experience and their achievements. The Technology Committee may, in particular, provide expertise to support the work of the EU Centre, within the scope of its mandate, with respect to matters related to detection of online child sexual abuse, to support the EU Centre in contributing to a high level of technical standards and safeguards in detection technology.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point p
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point p
(p) ‘online child sexual abuse’ means the online dissemination of child sexual abuse material and the solicitation of children with the intention of violence/sexual abuse;
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Persons residing in the Union shall have the right to receive, upon their request, from the Coordinating Authority designated by the Member State where they reside, information regarding any instances where the dissemination of known child sexual abuse material depicting them is reported to the EU Centre pursuant to Article 12. PAll persons including with disabilities shall have the equal right to ask and receive such an information in a manner accessible to them. The information shall be provided to the persons requesting it in a confidential, easily understandable and accessible manner, within a certain period.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 3
Article 25 – paragraph 3
3. Where aEach Member State designates more than one competent authority in addition to the Coordinating Authority, it shall ensure that the respective tasks of those authoritiesshall ensure that a contact point is designated or established within the Coordinating Authority to handle requests for clarification, feedback and of the Coordinating Authority are clearly defined and that they cooperate closely and effectively when performing their tasks. The Member State concerned shall communicate the namer communications concerning all matters related to the application and enforcement of this Regulation in that Member State. Member States shall make the information ofn the other competent authorities as well as their respective tasks to the EU Centre and the Commisscontact point publicly available, shall promote its dissemination and visibility in order to raise awareness, especially in public places frequented by children, and shall communicate it to the EU Centre. They shall keep that information updated and easy to find in order to draw the public attention to existing danger and prevention.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 5
Article 25 – paragraph 5
5. Each Member State shall ensure that a contact point is designated or established within the Coordinating Authority’s office to handle requests for clarification, feedback and other communications in relation to all matters related to the application and enforcement of this Regulation in that Member State. Member States shall make the information on the contact point publicly available and communicate it to the EU Centre. They shall keep that information updated, shall promote its dissemination and visibility in order to raise awareness, especially in public places frequented by children, and shall communicate it to the EU Centre. They shall keep that information updated and easy to find in order to draw the public attention to existing danger and prevention.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 50 – paragraph 3
Article 50 – paragraph 3
3. Where necessary for the performance of its tasks under this RegulationTo better combat and prevent child sexual abuse, the EU Centre shall carry out, participate in or encourage research, surveys and studies, either on its own initiative or, where appropriate and compatible with its priorities and its annual work programme, at the request of the European Parliament, the Council or the Commissionin each Member State, in order to collect more information about the current situation in each country, to compare the results and effectiveness of the used methods. Such data should be open in order to find the gaps and foci of spreading and further fight. The EU Centre shall support Member States and the Coordinating Authorities in conducting research, taking into account national specificities.