During the meeting of the EP Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) in Brussels, Members vote on preventing online terrorist content. Statement by Daniel DALTON (ECR, UK), rapporteur.

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Preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online: extracts from the vote and statement by Daniel DALTON (ECR, UK), rapporteur

Rapporteur Daniel Dalton (ECR, UK), 2 shots

Result panel of final vote: 44 votes in total, 35 in favour, 1 against, 8 abstentions.

Rapporteur Daniel Dalton (ECR, UK), 1 shot

SOUNDBITE (English), Daniel DALTON (ECR, UK), Rapporteur, It applies to all online services so no one is exempt from this, it applies to everyone. In terms of what are the obligation for the authorities: When they pick up content that they deem to be contrary, to be illegal terrorist content effectively, they need to issue an order to the platform. Now, the platform will then in most cases have an hour to take down that content. Now there are a few things that we've added in Parliament to this. For example, in the case of the first time a service gets an order, instead of one hour in this case there is a twelve hour period in which they are able to take action, get their services, get their systems ready to be able to take down the order.

SOUNDBITE (English), Daniel DALTON (ECR, UK), Rapporteur, We&rsquo;ve worked to tweet the definition to make it much closer aligned to the existing terrorist directive, to try make sure we really cover terrorist content and not things that could be interpreted differently in different countries. So, we've aligned it as closely as we can with the terrorist directive which we already have in European law.

SOUNDBITE (English), Daniel DALTON (ECR, UK), Rapporteur, Now we don&rsquo;t have any framework that allows, at a European level, a national authority to go after a service provider that is in another country. So, that loophole in the first place we are trying to close with this.