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This week marked the 10-year anniversary of the EU Framework on combating racism and xenophobia. The European Commission is publishing guidance for national authorities to help them improve how EU rules on fighting hate crime and hate speech are implemented on the ground. The guidance gives advice on how to address common issues when it comes to the practical application of these rules, and how to ensure effective investigation, prosecution and sentencing of hate crime and hate speech.

The EU's Framework Decision on combating racism and xenophobia obliges all EU countries to put in place legislation to penalise the most serious manifestations of racism and xenophobia, and in particular the public incitement to racist violence or hatred as well as racist and xenophobic hate crime.

The European Commission supports member states through the EU High Level Group on combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, which regularly brings together experts from member states, civil society and community-based organizations, EU agencies in particular the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, as well as international organizations including the United Nations, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe.

The Commission has also been working closely with IT companies for them to quickly remove illegal hate speech online. For more information and the guidance published today see here.

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