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part of their everyday livesgg. Cyber-bullying has been identified as a modern manifestation
of bullying that calls for urgent responses and the involvement of all relevant actors, such
as social networking sites, internet providers and the police. The Commission aims at
achieving a high level of protection of children in the digital space, including of their
personal datahh, while fully upholding their right to access internet for the benefit of their
social and cultural development. Through the Safer Internet programme ii, the Commission
coordinates and supports efforts to empower and protect children online. Various sectors of
the Information and Communication Technologies industry have been engaged in selfregulatory initiatives in particular to increase the protection of children using mobile phonejj
and social networking serviceskk and through the Pan European Game Information rating
system of video and online gamesll. The Commission will now expand its call for action to
manufacturers of mobile devices and game consoles, internet service providers, mobile
applications and content providers, consumer organisations, researchers and child welfare
organisations.
The Commission is closely monitoring the transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services
Directivemm by the Member States into their national law, for which the deadline was 19
December 2009. The Directive extends the standards for protection of children from
traditional TV programmes to the fast growing on-demand audiovisual media services,
particularly on the Internet.
Actions:
The Commission will contribute to empowering and protecting children when they are
vulnerable, notably by:
6.
Supporting the exchange of best practices and the improvement of training for
guardians, public authorities and other actors who are in close contact with unaccompanied
children (2011-2014);
7.
Paying particular attention to children in the context of the EU Framework for
National Roma Integration Strategies, which will be adopted in spring 2011 and will
notably promote the more efficient use of structural funds for the integration of Roma;
8.
Strongly encouraging and providing support to all Member States to ensure the swift
introduction and full functioning of the 116 000 hotline for missing children and the child
alert mechanisms (2011-2012).
9.
Supporting Member States and other stakeholders in strengthening prevention,
empowerment and participation of children to make the most of online technologies and
counter cyber-bullying behaviour, exposure to harmful content, and other online risks
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kk
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Eurobarometer Qualitative study on the Rights of the Child, October 2010, available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/quali/ql_right_child_sum_en.pdf
See the Commission Communication on a comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the
European Union, COM(2010)609 final, point 2.1.2., available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/news/consulting_public/0006/com_2010_609_en.pdf
Decision No 1351/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008
establishing a multiannual Community programme on protecting children using the Internet and other
communication technologies, OJ L 348, 24.12.2008, p. 118–127.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sip/docs/mobile_2005/europeanframework.pdf.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/social_networking/docs/sn_principles.pdf.
http://www.pegi.info/
Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the
coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member
States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services
Directive), OJ L 95, 15.4.2010, p. 1–24.
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