A meeting of the Council's Justice and Home Affairs counsellors scheduled for 14 July 2026 will take stock of two linked legislative files aimed at combating online child sexual abuse. The meeting, set for 10:00 at the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, will cover a draft regulation temporarily derogating from the e-privacy directive (2002/58/EC) for providers of number-independent interpersonal communications services, as well as the state of play of interinstitutional negotiations on the permanent Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Regulation.
Agenda item 2 focuses on the temporary derogation, which would allow certain communications service providers to process personal data to detect and report online child sexual abuse material. The counsellors will discuss the state of play and next steps based on documents 11261/1/26 REV 1, ADD 1 + COR 1, 11545/26, and 11761/26. Agenda item 3 addresses the permanent CSA Regulation proposal, with negotiations progress to be reviewed under document 11501/26.
a temporary derogation from e-privacy rules for fighting online child sexual abuse and the permanent CSA Regulation's negotiation progress. No prior coverage of these files exists in the available record.