Highlights - EU’s horizontal regulatory framework for illegal content removal in the DSM: hearing - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

IMCO committee will hold a public hearing on 19 June at 10.30 the 'EU’s horizontal regulatory framework for illegal content removal in the digital single market: Towards a balanced and predictable overall liability regime for online platforms'. The hearing will bring together a number of experts and speakers representing views of online intermediaries, stakeholders, academia and MS authorities to exchange on the existing and the potential future approaches and measures towards tackling, in an

efficient way, illegal digital content while taking into consideration the existing EU horizontal legal framework and e-commerce directive 200/31/EC. The hearing will also discuss the way forward proposed in the EU Communication, and the non-binding measures/guidance recommended most recently in the EC Recommendation as well as different approaches to tackling illegal content in the EU adopted by the MS, the experience and good practices developed through voluntary measures, ADR, cooperation with law enforcement authorities, remedies/redress, and impact on the efficiency and smooth functioning of the Single Market.

This hearing is open to the public. In case you are not in possession of an entrance badge to the EP please contact the IMCO secretariat (imco-secretariat@europarl.europa.eu) providing the following details: full name, date of birth, nationality, the type of identity card (passport, drivers licence, ID card etc.), the number of the ID card) no later than 15/06/18 at 18:00