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(24/09/08): The voting has finished and the results are in.

Amendment 133 was rejected.

“Member States shall ensure that no technology may be mandated by competent authorities which would facilitate surveillance of internet users, such as technologies that mirror or monitor the user´s actions and/or interfere with operations of the user’s network activity for the benefit of a third party (known as “filteringâ€ÂÂ�).â↚¬ÂÂ�

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Amendment 138 was passed, with a last minute oral amendment. The European Parliament voted to adopt it in this form:

“applying the principle that no restriction may be imposed on the rights and freedoms of end-users, notably in accordance with Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on freedom of expression and information, without a prior ruling by the judicial authorities, save when public security is threatened�