EU Negotiators Agree on Detection of Public Content and Tasks of EU Centre for Child Protection in CSAM Regulation

Following the sixth round of negotiations on September 29, 2026, the EU Council under the Irish Presidency and the European Parliament reached an agreement in principle on detection orders for large platforms covering public content and on the tasks to be assigned to the future EU Centre for Child Protection. The Centre will be responsible for checking the validity of reports submitted by providers and forwarding them to the authorities, and will also be able to search public content for child sexual abuse material itself, with its activities overseen by a fundamental rights officer. Negotiators must now find common ground on private content, one of the most sensitive aspects of the proposed regulation, with the European Parliament maintaining a firm position on the protection of personal data.

Centralized validation systems for CSAM reports address the back-end of abuse detection but leave a critical operational gap between the moment harmful content is generated or shared in private channels and the moment it is forwarded to authorities. By detecting coercive patterns, escalating exchanges and material indicative of grooming or sextortion within direct-message streams as they occur, Guardii enables the professional or parent who receives an alert to intervene before a child is further harmed and before material reaches the EU Centre or law enforcement, closing the window of vulnerability the regulatory model contemplates but cannot itself eliminate.