European UnionePrivacy Regulation
Officially Proposed Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications (ePrivacy Regulation), withdrawn
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A device storage and tracking consent rule binding public and private bodies.
As of .
What it requires
- This proposal never entered into force and was formally withdrawn by the European Commission on ; it imposes no duty of its own, and Directive 2002/58/EC's Article 5(3) consent duty for storing or accessing information on a device remains the operative rule.
What this law does
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This proposal never entered into force and imposes no duty. Presented by the European Commission on as procedure 2017/0003(COD), it would have repealed Directive 2002/58/EC and replaced it with a single, directly applicable regulation covering unsolicited-communications consent, confidentiality of communications, and terminal-equipment consent alike.
The Commission approved its withdrawal during its 2533rd meeting on , recorded in the Official Journal on among a wider list of withdrawn proposals, after no agreement proved possible among the co-legislators. Directive 2002/58/EC remains the only law at this rung.
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Read the law
European Commission legislative proposal text, EUR-Lex, COM(2017) 10 final
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