Traduction de «Responsabilité relative au contenu sur Internet » (Français → Anglais) :

29. Resettlement must be primarily targeted at those who qualify for international protection according to the criteria defined and codified in the Council Directive on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals and stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection (the Qualification Directive). The selection of candidates for resettlement could be predicated on several criteria and could include the resettlement of groups determined to be in need of international protection and who Member States regard as eligible for resettlement under the EU resettlement scheme. ...[+++]It could also be envisaged that the EU takes some special responsibility for vulnerable groups of refugees or those for whom there are integration difficulties in the third country concerned (e.g. victims of torture or sexual violence, human rights defenders, members of specific ethnic, religious or other groups discriminated against in the host country) but for whom, by comparison, there may be more integration and protection potential in an EU Member State.

- Questions relating to content are, by their very nature, mainly national, given their direct and close link to the cultural, social and democratic needs of a given society; in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, regulation of content is thus mainly the responsibility of the Member States.

In order to promote a safer Internet, the European Parliament and the Council adopted on 25 January 1999 Decision No 276/1999/EC adopting a multiannual Community Action plan on promoting safer use of the Internet by combating illegal and harmful content on global networks [5] (the Safer Internet Action Plan), which provides funding for measures dealing with illegal and harmful content on the global network.

In one case [26] a specific Act foresees that anyone operating on the Internet bears a certain amount of responsibility for his content including the duty to remove or otherwise prevent the further distribution of information which is clearly covered by the penal codes provisions.

Telecommunications service providers must use apparatus that enables law enforcement agencies to intercept, for example, subscribers’ e-mail and Internet protocol (IP) addresses, the date and time of communications and the types of files transmitted (telecommunications data) and the substance of messages (content-related data).

Competition comes not only from private broadcasters but from Internet service providers and over-the-top providers like Netflix that are not regulated at all by the CRTC and have no requirement to follow any of the content requirements, contribute to our domestic screen-based production industry, or even, and this is pretty surprising, pay retail tax. Netflix pays no retail tax in Canada.