Parliament President Metsola asked the Council to pick up the file even after Parliament struck it down
EU ambassadors will decide on Friday whether to continue negotiating a law extending temporary derogations to privacy rules, which allow tech companies to scan the internet for traces of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to an internal document obtained by Euractiv.
The law was proposed as a simple 2-year extension of the rules that have now expired, but which were highly controversial due to their negative impact on privacy rights and disputed effectiveness.
They were initially intended to be temporary while a permanent framework, known as the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), is being negotiated among institutions. But over 4 years after it was first proposed, the permanent framework is still under discussion.
The Friday talks among ambassadors come after the Parliament’s President, Roberta Metsola, asked the European Council on 18 June to resume negotiations on the file, despite the European Parliament having already voted down the text in March.
