The Electronic Commerce Directive (Terrorism Act 2006) Regulations 2007

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2007/1550
  • These Regulations may be cited as the Electronic Commerce Directive (Terrorism Act 2006) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 21st June 2007.
  • (1) In these Regulations—
    • the Act” means the Terrorism Act 2006 ;
    • article” has the meaning given in section 20(2) of the Act;
    • the Directive” means Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8th June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce) ;
    • “information society services”—
      • (a) has the meaning given in Article 2(a) of the Directive (which refers to Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22nd June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations ) ; and
      • (b) is summarised in recital 17 of the Directive as covering “any service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, and at the individual request of a recipient of a service”;
    • recipient of the service” means any person who, for professional ends or otherwise, uses an information society service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible;
    • record” has the meaning given in section 20(2) of the Act;
    • “relevant offence” is an offence under section 1 or 2 of the Act;
    • service provider” means a person providing an information society service;
    • statement” is to be construed in accordance with section 20(6) of the Act.
    a service provider is established in a particular EEA state if he effectively pursues an economic activity using a fixed establishment in that EEA state for an indefinite period and he is a national of an EEA state or a company or firm as mentioned in F6Article 54 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;the presence or use in a particular place of equipment or other technical means of providing an information society service does not, of itself, constitute the establishment of a service provider;where it cannot be determined from which of a number of establishments a given information society service is provided, that service is to be regarded as provided from the establishment where the service provider has the centre of his activities relating to the service,
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  • (1) Proceedings for a relevant offence shall not be instituted against a non-UK service provider unless the derogation condition is satisfied.(2) A notice under section 3(3) of the Act shall not be given to a non-UK service provider unless the derogation and cooperation conditions are satisfied.is necessary to pursue any of the public interest objectives;relates to an information society service that prejudices that objective or presents a serious and grave risk of prejudice to it; andis proportionate to that objective.public policy, in particular the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of a relevant offence;public security, including the safeguarding of national security and defence.a constable has requested the EEA state in which the service provider is established to take appropriate measures and the EEA state has failed to do so; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .it appears to a constable that the step mentioned in paragraph (2) should

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