CETS 201 – Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, 25.X.2007 __________________________________________________________________________________ e possessing child pornography; f knowingly obtaining access, through information and communication technologies, to child pornography. 2 For the purpose of the present article, the term “child pornography” shall mean any material that visually depicts a child engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit conduct or any depiction of a child’s sexual organs for primarily sexual purposes. 3 Each Party may reserve the right not to apply, in whole or in part, paragraph 1.a and e to the production and possession of pornographic material: 4 – consisting exclusively of simulated representations or realistic images of a non-existent child; – involving children who have reached the age set in application of Article 18, paragraph 2, where these images are produced and possessed by them with their consent and solely for their own private use. Each Party may reserve the right not to apply, in whole or in part, paragraph 1.f. Article 21 – 1 2 Offences concerning the participation of a child in pornographic performances Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following intentional conduct is criminalised: a recruiting a child into participating in pornographic performances or causing a child to participate in such performances; b coercing a child into participating in pornographic performances or profiting from or otherwise exploiting a child for such purposes; c knowingly attending pornographic performances involving the participation of children. Each Party may reserve the right to limit the application of paragraph 1.c to cases where children have been recruited or coerced in conformity with paragraph 1.a or b. Article 22 – Corruption of children Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to criminalise the intentional causing, for sexual purposes, of a child who has not reached the age set in application of Article 18, paragraph 2, to witness sexual abuse or sexual activities, even without having to participate. Article 23 – Solicitation of children for sexual purposes Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to criminalise the intentional proposal, through information and communication technologies, of an adult to meet a child who has not reached the age set in application of Article 18, paragraph 2, for the purpose of committing any of the offences established in accordance with Article 18, paragraph 1.a, or Article 20, paragraph 1.a, against him or her, where this proposal has been followed by material acts leading to such a meeting. 8

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