The Chairperson of the Special Parliamentary Committee for Combating Human Trafficking, Diana Tusa, declared on Tuesday that a draft law is being prepared to amend Article 374 of the Penal Code, regarding child pornography.
The Committee analyzed, in its meeting on Tuesday, a first draft of this draft law, with a new round of debates to be held on February 18.
"In today's meeting, we analyzed a first draft regarding the amendment of Article 374 of the Criminal Code regarding child pornography. First of all, we want to bring this offense to the level of European legislation, as the 2011 European Union directive obliges us. This directive obliges us to change the name of the offense to that of materials containing sexual abuse against minors. So this is the complete definition of the offense. Secondly, we also want to regulate grooming, which unfortunately exists, that is, that action of a person to determine a minor to take certain acts, films, photos, through which they practically expose certain parts of their body in order to produce materials containing sexual abuse of the minor, a part that is not currently in our legislation. Of course, in some cases, to increase the penalties for serious crimes and at the same time introduce the prohibition of exercising certain rights, because this was not in the legislation until now", mentioned Diana Tusa.
She asked her colleagues in the committee to formulate proposals, with a new debate on this subject to be held on February 18, to which representatives of both public institutions and associations in the field will be invited.
"As to child pornography, I believe that the biggest challenge is given by the evolution of technology and the fact that more and more cases are using artificial intelligence in this process. I believe that we also need to think about regulating this aspect, which is why I tried to introduce ANCOM and CNA into the equation. We will see to what extent they can be involved in terms of detecting, tracking and blocking the means of dissemination of these materials and including reporting them to criminal prosecution bodies when appropriate", Diana Tusa also said.
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