Article 1 Subject matter and scope

1.   This Regulation lays down temporary and strictly limited rules derogating from certain obligations laid down in Directive 2002/58/EC, with the sole objective of enabling providers of certain number-independent interpersonal communications services (‘providers’) to use, without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, specific technologies for the processing of personal and other data to the extent strictly necessary to detect online child sexual abuse on their services and report it and to remove online child sexual abuse material from their services.

2.   This Regulation does not apply to the scanning of audio communications.

3.   This Regulation does not apply to interpersonal communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been or will be applied.