Status: Proposal withdrawn in February 2025.
Full name: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the respect for private life and the protection of personal data in electronic communications and repealing Directive 2002/58/EC (Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications)
Type: Regulation
Objective and key elements:
- Updating the current ePrivacy legislation (mainly legislation related to the current e-Privacy Directive) to align with the rules set out in the GDPR and being better adapted to the digital evolvement of services.
- Protect the privacy of online users by standardizing the privacy controls of electronic communications service providers who gather and manage data of online users residing in the EU
- Protect users against unsolicited electronic correspondence by new-age electronic communication corporations
- Lex specialis to the GDPR; particularising and complementing it with respect to electronic communications data that qualifies as personal data
Relevant to: Providers of electronic communications services, website and app operators and other companies (in particular related to direct marketing)
Documentation
- Commission’s first proposal in January of 2017, link
(Last updated 12 February 2025)