Ministers of Interior of the EU member states endorsed a proposal by the European Commission to allocate 55 million euros for the creation of tracking technologies on the Internet who publishes materials that carry a threat to the safety of users, especially children.

According to the European authorities, half of all violations of ethics or the law on the Internet in one way or another linked to child pornography.

As explained Interior Minister in the Presidency of the EU France, Michel Alo-Marie, "the aim of the project – create a European database with" Europol ", which flocked to all signals of illegal behavior on the Internet. So it comes to centralize efforts in this direction. On the other hand, must use the experience to combat cyber-criminals, built up by individual countries – to help "Europol" act effectively ".

European authorities also did not discount the importance of educational campaigns explaining the most vulnerable ways to confront the psychological pressure and other forms of "luring" on the Internet.

On 23 October the European Parliament supported the continuation of the "Safer Internet" to 2013 to protect minors from the dangers emanating from the Internet.

The program "Safer Internet started in the EU in 2005.

Experts estimate that children aged 12 to 15 years spend on the Internet at least three hours a day.