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"en.20111026.22.3-361-000"2
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"Madam President, according to UNICEF data, the child pornography industry continues to flourish, unfortunately, and about 1 million children are abused and exploited for this contemptible purpose. Child pornography and the sexual abuse and exploitation of children are a gross violation of the basic rights of a child enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. However, it is the duty of lawmakers at EU and Member State level to adopt concrete legislation to prevent this particularly serious crime from being committed.
The duty to protect children, who are the most vulnerable members of society, surely requires solving the problem through the toughest legal measures of criminal law. The serious nature of the act therefore justifies the adoption of sweeping criminal penalties and measures, including custodial sentences, which should be differentiated according to their level of seriousness, in order to achieve the necessary deterrent effect.
The nature and method of committing these crimes is mutating considerably in the anonymous environment of the Internet, which often encourages crime, and laws must take account of this and respond sufficiently flexibly, leaving no loopholes. The supranational and even global nature of this crime allows the perpetrators to avoid penalties outside the EU, and international cooperation is therefore essential, in my opinion. I therefore support the idea of the Commission initiating a discussion aimed at achieving an internationally binding agreement."@en1
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