Contents
- 1. Each Member State shall ensure that the information societ…
- 2. Member States may not, for reasons falling within the coor…
- 3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the fields referred…
- 4. Member States may take measures to derogate from paragraph…
- 5. Member States may, in the case of urgency, derogate from t…
- 6. Without prejudice to the Member State's possibility of pro…
(a)the measures shall be:
(i)necessary for one of the following reasons:
—public policy, in particular the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offences, including the protection of minors and the fight against any incitement to hatred on grounds of race, sex, religion or nationality, and violations of human dignity concerning individual persons,
—the protection of public health,
—public security, including the safeguarding of national security and defence,
—the protection of consumers, including investors;
(ii)taken against a given information society service which prejudices the objectives referred to in point (i) or which presents a serious and grave risk of prejudice to those objectives;
(iii)proportionate to those objectives;
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