“Promoting the safer use of the Internet and the new on-line technologies”: that’s the objective of the EU plurennial programme “Safer Internet Plus”, proposed by the Commission this year and currently in phase of approval. With its new programme the Union intends to pay special attention to the protection of childhood, through the adoption of ad hoc legislative measures accompanied by concrete actions. In particular, the EU could oblige Internet providers to fulfil their general duty to protect children, by preventing for example the purchase online with credit cards of pornographic, paedophile or otherwise criminal material, and at the same time by introducing systems of identification and information on contents prejudicial to childhood. Safer Internet Plus will also promote projects of transnational character within primary and secondary schools for education in the safe use of a resource like the Internet that the EU itself considers “one of the most valuable for the European citizen”. For further information, consult the website http://europa.eu.int/comm/info_soc
