e-Privacy
(Last updated: 11 February 2025)
The EU's plan to introduce an ePrivacy Regulation has failed. The ePrivacy Regulation was supposed to govern the use of electronic communications services within the European Union and replace the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (Directive 2002/58/EC). However, after conducting lengthy negotiations and even beginning a trilogue, the European Commission announced the end of the legislative procedure for the ePrivacy Regulation in its 2025 work programme on 11 February 2025.
Although it is impossible to rule out whether the issue will be addressed again in other legal acts in the future, until then the ePrivacy Directive and the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG) will continue to apply to tracking. You can find out more here:
Tracking according to the ePrivacy Directive and German law
2025
2022-2024
2021
- Version of the EU Council of Ministers, 10 February 2021
- Draft by the Portuguese Presidency, 5 January 2021
2020
- Draft by the German Presidency, 4 November 2020
- Draft by the Croatian Council Presidency, 21 February 2020
2019
- 4th Draft by the Finnish Presidency, 4 October 2019
- 3rd Draft by the Finnish Presidency, 18 September 2019
- 2nd Draft by the Finnish Presidency, 26 July 2019
- Draft by the Finnish Presidency, 12 July 2019
- Progress Report by the Romanian Council Presidency, 20 May 2019
- Text proposed by Romanian Council presidency, 22 February 2019
2018
2017
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