Two French NGOs working for on-line freedom of expression, and the French Association of Internet Service Providers, along with ARTICLE 19, the British freedom of expression NGO (in a different brief),  challenged in front of the French Conseil d'Etat two decrees adopted in 2015. The decrees permit the administrative blocking of websites that condone terrorism and child pornography and their de-referencing by search engines. (The Conseil d'Etat is a body of the French national government that acts both as legal adviser of the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice.) The Court ruled that the administrative measures were lawful and did not violate freedom of expression as enshrined in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") because, among other reasons, there was no European Convention requirement that blocking be ordered by a judge and no evidence that the state was exploiting personal data.