Privacy and electronic communications (Regulation)

Dr. Anja Hoffmann, LL.M. Eur.

Philipp Eckhardt

The EU - Commission wants a Regulation to protect the confidentiality of electronic communications and related end-user data more effectively and at the same time ensure the freedom of movement of such data. In cep’s view, the envisaged coherence with the General Data Protection Regulation has not been achieved. This results in legal uncertainty which weakens the EU as a location for the data economy.

cepPolicyBrief

cep considers as positive the fact that the EU Commission wants to create an EU-wide level playing field by way of uniform rules to protect the confidentiality of electronic communication which also apply to OTT services. However, the numerous ambiguities in the Regulation make its uniform application virtually impossible. The Regulation should therefore be fundamentally revised.

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Privacy and electronic communications COM(2017) 10 (publ. 07.04.2017)	PDF	149 KB	Download

Proposal for a Regulation COM(2017) 10 (publ. 01.10.2017)