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EU Directive 2011

European Union directive from 2011 requiring member states to punish knowingly accessing CSAM.

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Which EU member states have implemented Article 5 of the CSAM Directive into national law, and what do their statutes say about knowingly accessing CSAM?

There is no record in the provided reporting that identifies any EU Member State that has already implemented "Article 5" of the recast CSAM Directive into national law; the sources instead document o...

Jan 14, 2026

Which countries explicitly prohibit the intentional viewing of CSAM?

A small but growing set of jurisdictions explicitly criminalize knowingly or intentionally accessing/viewing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with the European Union’s 2011 Directive requiring memb...