Second reading of the Draft Act amending the Information Society Services Act and the Penal Code (Bill 224 SE)
Session: 15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd session, plenary session.
Date: 2024-06-13 01:29
Total Speeches: 7
Membership: 15
Agenda Duration: 5m
AI Summaries: 7/7 Speeches (100.0%)
Analysis: Structured Analysis
Analysis
Summary
Today’s agenda item concerned the second reading of Bill 224, the Act amending the Information Society Service Act and the Penal Code, initiated by the Government of the Republic. Andres Sutt, the rapporteur of the Economic Affairs Committee, explained that the committee discussed the bill on May 30. The objective of the bill is to transpose the European Union regulation that prevents the dissemination of terrorist content via online services. The EKRE faction submitted an extremely large number (224 in total) of amendments to the bill, which the committee deemed obstructionist, as they lacked substantive explanation and were systematically submitted to obstruct the processing of the bill. Therefore, these were grouped into 34 proposals, which were voted down in the committee (6 against, 1 abstention) and were thus not subject to voting in the chamber pursuant to § 106 (2) of the Riigikogu Rules of Procedure and Internal Rules Act. The committee fully accounted for amendment No. 35, which was submitted by the Economic Affairs Committee itself and contained legislative drafting amendments to bring the bill into conformity with Bill 390, which had already been processed. Following the review of the amendments, during which it was confirmed that proposals 1–34 would be disregarded and proposal 35 would be taken into account, the second reading of Bill 224 was concluded.
Decisions Made 3
Amendments No. 1–34 (obstructionist proposals submitted by the EKRE faction) shall be disregarded, as they were voted down by the lead committee.
Fully adopt Amendment Proposal No. 35, submitted by the Economic Affairs Committee (technical legislative amendments).
Conclude the second reading of Bill 224.
Esimees Lauri Hussar
AI Summary
As the 13th item on the agenda, the Riigikogu will discuss the second reading of Draft Act 224, initiated by the Government of the Republic, concerning amendments to the Information Society Service Act and the Penal Code. The report will be presented by Andres Suti, a member of the Economic Affairs Committee.
Andres Sutt
AI Summary
The Economic Affairs Committee discussed on May 30th the preparation for the second reading of the draft bill, which transposes an European Union regulation aimed at preventing and curbing the exploitation of online services.
Esimees Lauri Hussar
AI Summary
The Chairman, Lauri Hussar, apologizes for the noise in the hall and asks that they continue.
Andres Sutt
AI Summary
Speaker Andres Sutt described how the 224 amendments proposed by the EKRE faction were treated as insincere and viewed as obstruction. Of these, 34 were grouped together and voted through with six votes against and one abstention. The 35th amendment came from the Economic Affairs Committee and was brought into alignment with Draft Bill 390. Although the presenters were not present, the notification process was clarified, and a promise was made to improve communication regarding extraordinary sessions in the future. All procedural decisions were adopted by consensus.
Esimees Lauri Hussar
AI Summary
The Chairman thanks the presenter and announces that there are no questions.
Andres Sutt
AI Summary
He confirms that it is true and thanks.
Esimees Lauri Hussar
AI Summary
Chairman Lauri Hussar announced that 35 amendments concerning Bill 224 have been reviewed, and the leading committee intends to fully adopt amendment No. 35, after which the second reading of the bill will be concluded.