Бельгия проверяет Telegram на соответствие антитеррористическим стандартам ЕС

The regulator has taken over 450 court fences against Telegram

Приложение для обмена сообщениями Telegram is being scrutinized by the Belgian telecommunications regulator to see if the platform complies with EU rules on combating terrorist content online.

The Belgian Institute for Post and Telecommunications (BIPT) заявила in its annual report published last week that it received notifications of 454 cross-border injunctions, or notifications, last year that concerned content provided through Telegram’s hosting services.

“Given the large number of Telegram users and the number of injunctions issued against Telegram, the BIPT conducted an in-depth investigation into Telegram’s compliance with the Terrorist Content Online (TCO) Regulation in 2024,” the report says, adding that the regulator will continue this work in 2025 and extend its oversight to other hosting service providers under its jurisdiction.

The BIPT plans to identify hosting providers as being “exposed to terrorist content online” as early as this year, the report said.

Telegram is registered as a company in the British Virgin Islands, but has a legal representative in the EU in Brussels, which means that BIPT oversees the platform’s compliance.

The TCO rules came into force in June 2022 and oblige hosting providers to remove terrorist content online within one hour of receiving a takedown order from a national authority of an EU member state.

In case of non-compliance, the BIPT may impose a financial penalty of 4% of the provider’s global turnover.

A Telegram spokesperson told Euronews that “requests related to TCO have the highest priority.”

“[They] are processed within one hour of receipt, and a response is provided to the authorities as soon as possible.