Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion
Ms Sabha Greene:
Heads 7 and 8 are slightly separate from the obligations on platforms and search engines. This is not to do with investigations, as we understand them, for the rest of the scheme. At the moment, it is already the case a take-down order can be issued. A person can go to court for defamation or, as was said earlier, illegal goods or anything like that. This does not delay or change that process. All it does is harmonise the information across Europe. There are 27 different legal systems and court orders in each of the 27 are slightly different. The platforms said, when this regulation was being framed, that they get an order from a court in Slovakia, for example, and it is missing a bit of information and it is very hard for them. The idea is to give the platforms no excuse that they cannot find what they have been asked to take down. It is to harmonise the information so that, regardless of whether the order is issued in Rome, Dublin or Paris, they get the same information and therefore can move a bit faster in finding the content and taking it down. It does not interfere with that. This is not to do with those kinds of things.
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