Dr. John Evans:

The online safety code and the Digital Services Act work in a complementary way. They come from different legislative measures. The online safety code comes from the audiovisual media services directive. It applies to video sharing platform services. The Digital Services Act applies to all intermediate service providers. What is different in the online safety code is that we were able to be a bit more prescriptive about what we wanted. For example, if a video sharing platform service wants to show pornography or gratuitous violence and make it available on its platform, it needs to put in place age assurance measures that ensure that minors do not normally encounter that material.

Part B of the code came into effect in July and we are now looking at all the video sharing platform services that we-----