By Foo Yun CheeBRUSSELS, July 23 (Reuters) - EU countries endorsed a proposal on Thursday to reintroduce ‌a temporary measure allowing Google, Meta and ‌other online platforms to detect and remove online child sexual abuse ​materials without breaching privacy rules. The move by the bloc of 27 EU countries came two weeks after EU lawmakers gave the green light to the stopgap procedure which ‌aims to buy ⁠time for both sides to find a permanent solution to combat online child sexual ⁠abuse. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe temporary measure, in place from 2021 to April this year, will now be valid until 3 April ​2028. EU countries agreed to an amendment proposed by lawmakers to exempt end-to-end ‌encrypted communications such as WhatsApp, ​Telegram and Signal from the ​interim measure but said ​this did not imply that they ‌would allow it in permanent ​rules. (Reporting by Foo Yun ​Chee; Editing by Susan Fenton)