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The European Commission has launched a public consultation on:
1. Age verification.
2. Cross media rating and classification.
3. Online social networking.

The purpose of the public consultation is to gather the knowledge and views of all relevant stakeholders (including public bodies, child safety and consumer organisations, industry).

The information gathered will be fed into this year's Safer Internet Forum 2008 which will take place in Luxembourg on 25 and 26 September 2008 and will be dedicated to the above mentioned topics.

Deadline to send contributions: 31 July 2008

Information on public consultation
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sip/public_consultation/index_en.htm

Information on Safer Internet Forum
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sip/si_forum/index_en.htm