Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
EU Digital Services Package and the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill: Discussion
Ms Sabha Greene:
I have just one small point, which is to say that one of the main objectives of the Digital Services Act is to enhance co-operation, both across the EU, between the 27 digital services co-ordinators with the Commission, but also within each member state because it recognises that the landscape of regulating illegal content is quite complicated. There are different kinds of illegal content. There is stuff that is criminally illegal like terrorist content, which is enforced by bodies such as the Garda, and then there are matters that are civilly illegal like defamation, defamatory material or the infringement of copyright. Each one of those is assessed and enforced in its own way. In bringing forward the proposal for the DSA, the Commission was aware there could be gaps as a result in people working together within a member state. A very important role for the new digital services co-ordinator will be to develop relationships with all of the sectoral regulators and ensure there is good exchange of information and co-operation.
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