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1. Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following intentional conduct, when committed without right, is criminalised:
a) producing child pornography;
b) offering or making available child pornography;
c) distributing or transmitting child pornography;
d) procuring child pornography for oneself or for another person;
e) possessing child pornography;
f) knowingly obtaining access, through information and communication technologies, to child pornography.
2. For the purpose of the present article, the term “child pornography” shall mean any material that visually depicts a child engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit conduct or any depiction of a child’s sexual organs for primarily sexual purposes.
3. Each Party may reserve the right not to apply, in whole or in part, paragraph 1.a and e to the production and possession of pornographic material:
– consisting exclusively of simulated representations or realistic images of a non-existent child;
– involving children who have reached the age set in application of Article 18, paragraph 2, where these images are produced and possessed by them with their consent and solely for their own private use.
4. Each Party may reserve the right not to apply, in whole or in part, paragraph 1.f.