Procedure

Use of technologies by number-independent interpersonal communications service providers for the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combatting child sexual abuse online (temporary derogation from certain provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC)

2020/0259(COD)·9th term·FEMM / LIBE·COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)·CompletedProcedure completed
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): SIPPEL Birgit (S&D)
Summary

This dossier provides a temporary derogation from certain provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC so number-independent interpersonal communications service providers can process data to combat child sexual abuse online. The amendments define child sexual abuse material, solicitation, sex extortion and 'child', limit processing to well-established technologies strictly necessary for detection, reporting and removal, require annual transparency reports with gender-disaggregated data, and address account blocking and hashing; some reject the Commission proposal.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    13 Nov 2020 – 26 Nov 2020
  2. Procedure completed
190
Amendments
distinct, in window
11
Members
tabled at least one
2
Committee(s)
13 Nov 2020 – 26 Nov 2020
Dates

Plenary votes

1 roll-call votes

In plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →

  1. 6 Jul 2021Passedoutcome from totals
    On amendment 39
    Official label: Am 39 · what was voted ↗
    537 for133 against24 abstentions11 did not vote
    For
    Against
    Abst.

    Click a group to see each Member’s position.

Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Official amendment documents