La règlementation des contenus illicites circulant sur le reseau internet en droit comparé

2) Within the Community framework

The European Community takes part in the regulation of the company of information. Indeed, a Community action plan multiannual aiming at promoting a surer use of Internet by the fight against the messages with illicit contents and prejudicial diffused on the world networks was adopted by a decision of the European Parliament and the Council of January 25, 1999. The aims in view are the development of the autoreglementation, sensitizing near the users, the international co-operation and the encouragement of industry required tools for filtering and systems of grading. The Commission of freedoms and the civil rights, of the justice and the interior businesses (Commission LIBE) of the European Parliament also took a resolution relating to the follow-up of this multiannual action plan. The proposal aims at introducing new elements and adjustments. The Commission recommends the association of the applicant countries to the current activities and the creation of projects supporting the division of the experiments and knowledge. It also envisages to give a greater attention to the illicit contents on Internet in particular to racism and violence, and it wishes a more active participation of Industry.

The European Commission proposed on February 10, 2003 the creation of an Agency in charge of the safety of the networks and information. It will have as a principal function to be a center of expertise and council for all the questions relating to the cybersecurity. The Commission wants to really give birth to a systematic transborder co-operation between the Member States as regards safety from the networks and information.

All these illustrations show that Europe was interested very early in the problems caused by Internet and its real will to regulate the network. They make it possible to work out a whole of applicable rules on the network and thus to release from the common principles which support safety on Internet. The majority of the released solutions same as those are in general developed internationally what makes it possible the countries to set up conventions such as Convention on the cybercriminality^570(*).

* ⁵⁷⁰ Convention on the cybercriminality, above mentioned, note 67.