Protections for service providers of intermediary services
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8(1)A prohibition notice or prohibition order may not include terms which impose liabilities on service providers of intermediary services so far as the imposition of those liabilities would result in a contravention of Article 12, 13 or 14 of the E-Commerce Directive (various protections for service providers of intermediary services).
(2)A prohibition notice or prohibition order may not include terms which impose a general obligation on service providers of intermediary services covered by Article 12, 13 or 14 of the E-Commerce Directive—
(a)to monitor the information which they transmit or store when providing those services, or
(b)actively to seek facts or circumstances indicating illegal activity when providing those services.