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

IMCO committee held a public hearing on 19 June on 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 brought 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 also discussed 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.