REFLECTIONS ON THE OFFENCE OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY THROUGH COMPUTER SYSTEMS OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS OF COMMUNICATIONS

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Starting from the provisions of the Article 9 of the European Council on Cybercrime and the provisions of the Article 5 of the Directive 2011/92/EU on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography and the provisions of the Article 20 of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, all referring to offences related to child pornography, this article analyzes the offence of child pornography provided by the Article 374 of the Romanian Criminal Code, focusing on the crime of child pornography committed through computer systems or other electronic means of communications, in order to ensure that the Romanian legislator transposed the provisions of the three legal instruments at international and European level.