Strasbourg, 15 January 2003. In his answer of 25 June 2002 to question E-1450/02, Commissioner Vitorino stated that "the Commission (had) decided to support the project ‘International Child Exploitation Database Feasibility Study’, under the STOP II Programme Committee” and that “this project (aimed) to assess the feasibility of an international database with images of child sexual exploitation, sourced from the Internet or any other pictorial systems”.

In his reply Commissioner Vitorino also pointed out that "Europol, as well as the other Member States, Interpol and the group of eight most industrialised countries (was) fully associated to the project" and that "the final report (was) expected for December 2002".

Question from Olivier Dupuis, Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party, to the European Commission

"Can the Commission provide information on the final report of the project “International Child Exploitation Database Feasibility Study”? What is the Commission’s assessment of the feasibility study on the creation of an "international database with images of child sexual exploitation, sourced from the Internet or any other pictorial systems"? Does the Commission plan to move on to the operative phase of the creation of the database, and if so, when does it plan to begin?"


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