Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

We work closely with the European Commission. We have a good relationship. It has been at this for approximately six months longer than we have. It is a little bit further advanced. Some of the obligations it has been supervising have been in place for the past six months. It has had the first risk assessments from the major platforms. It has done its designations. It is also still building up its resources. How we operationalise what the working arrangements will be still needs to be worked out. There is a group called the European Board for Digital Services that consists of the Commission with all the digital service co-ordinators. We had our first meeting on 19 February. The first thing we decided to do was focus on elections and electoral integrity, particularly with the forthcoming European Parliament elections. That is the first piece of co-operation designed among us.

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