The Kremlin and the search engines have agreed to soften the law on the “right to oblivion” – RBC

The first deputy head of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin

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On Monday, June 15 first deputy head of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin met with representatives of the company “Yandex”, said RBC spokesman in the Duma. Following the meeting on Wednesday, June 17, in the State Duma Committee on Information Policy held a meeting with representatives of “Yandex”, RAEC and staff of the presidential administration, told RBC spokesman on the committee. They discussed the adjustment of the bill on the “right to oblivion” to view the sector was taken into account for the second reading. Representatives of the Internet industry will prepare a number of amendments – all of them on Wednesday, “discussed in detail”, told RBC representatives “Yandex” and RAEC, representatives of the Committee supported the proposal.

Today’s meeting – the continuation of dialogue and consultation with the industry who were promised the representatives of the Internet industry at a meeting in the State Duma on June 11 said RBC Chairman of the Committee on information policy Leonid Levin: the industry has identified the key issues on the bill and suggested ways of solving them. Results of the meeting Levin described as “useful, positive and constructive in terms of the preparation of amendments to the second reading of the draft, which would allow to make the law more technologically advanced and efficient».

The key issue for the industry was an exception to the provisions of the bill, binding search engines to remove links to accurate information, which was three years old, told the committee. At this rate most public attention is drawn to a number of State Duma deputies. In particular, this provision during the debate of the bill in the first reading at the plenary session of the Duma on Tuesday criticized the deputy Dmitry Gudkov, Eser: in his view, the removal of references to reliable information will lead to the fact that people will not know the truth about who is the best doctor teacher, and also about the people who bought “shubohranilischa.” The Committee supported the industry on this issue, the source said RBC rate will be excluded from the bill.

The amendments to the bill on the removal of references to the false information can make to June 19.

In addition, as They told RBC participants managed to reach a compromise in two areas: to consolidate “mandatory indication in the statement of a specific URL on the information that should be excluded from the search results,” and “the principle of exclusion of links from issuing only on request, containing the name and surname of the person” (this corresponds to including the European practice).

Representatives of the Internet industry is also offered to absolve themselves of non-core functions of government and the judiciary, and to shift them, for example, on Roskomnadzor. “We believe that the decision on the legality of removal orders should not take a private company and the authorized body. It is in the interests of citizens and society in general. But at this stage our position was not supported “, – told the press-secretary of” Yandex “Asya Melkumova.

They also discussed the issue of jurisdiction, it is possible to sue the place of residence of the claimant, and the question,” the exclusion of references bill and the amendments to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. ” Levin agreed to exclude from the bill proposed by deputies of the amendment to Article 152 of the Civil Code – they are redundant, told the RBC.

«As before, we do not like the bill. We were promised minimal changes, but the freedom of research is still under question, “- said Asya Melkumova.

Earlier, on June 11 at a meeting chaired by Levin has been agreed with the industry that by June 17, they will present to the committee proposals for amendments to the bill on the “right to oblivion”. Such proposals were received from RAEC, which brings together all the main operators of search engines, and “Yandex”, which is not included in the RAEC, the source said RBC Committee. According to director Sergei RAEC Plutogarenko, the initiators of the bill have assured: “The proposals will be taken into account when finalizing the document, mutual consultation, work will continue on the text of the bill».

The amendments to the law “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information” were submitted to the Duma representatives of all Duma factions on May 29. The bill requires the operator to stop the search at the request of any citizen of the issuance of links that provide access not only to unreliable and disseminate information in violation of the law, but also to reliable information about the events that took place and ended more than three years ago. An exemption is provided only for information about the events, “containing elements of a criminal offense, for which the terms of attracting criminal liability have not yet expired.” The search engines have three days in which to remove from your system links after he received the corresponding request.

The amendments are consistent with the European practice of solving similar problems, the authors of the bill in a memorandum to him. Last week, an amendment supported profile Duma committee on information policy. Tuesday, June 16 the bill was passed in the first reading. As conceived by the deputies of the “right to oblivion” in Russia should work since January 2016.