On Thursday 30 September, the members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) adopted (15 votes in favour, 9 against, 0 abstentions) the draft opinion report of French MEP Geoffroy Didier (EPP) on the Digital Services Act (DSA) (see EUROPE 12800/7).
While the text was supported by a majority of MEPs, others, such as Patrick Breyer (Greens/EFA, Germany), felt that the proposals on the table were “dangerous”.
“The rapporteur’s proposals are radical. They would, among other things, threaten the secrecy of private correspondence and end-to-end encryption, impose ex-ante filtering of downloads, introduce excessively short deadlines for content removal, apply excessive national laws across the EU, turn ‘trusted whistleblowers’ into ‘trusted censors’ and much more,” he said before the vote.
Several alternative compromise amendments were tabled by MEPs from the S&D, Greens/EFA and Renew Europe groups.
Members of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) - responsible for the DSA - will consider the JURI Committee’s recommendations next week. (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)