ePrivacy Directive — Directive 2002/58/EC
Privacy in electronic communication, including cookies and similar storage.
What we read it for
The act behind our rules for storage in a reader's browser and for anything read from a device rather than from a page.
Identity
| Type | Directive |
| Identifier | 2002/58/EC |
| CELEX | 32002L0058 |
| Adopted | 2002-07-12 |
| In force | 2002-07-31 |
| Transposition deadline | 2003-10-31 |
21 articles in the base act
Structure
The chapter structure of this act is not read into the register yet. The official text carries it.
Articles
23 articles are read into the register, one address each.
- 1 · Scope and aim
- 2 · Definitions
- 3 · Services concerned
- 4 · ►M2 Security of processing ◄
- 5 · Confidentiality of the communications
- 6 · Traffic data
- 7 · Itemised billing
- 8 · Presentation and restriction of calling and connected line identification
- 9 · Location data other than traffic data
- 10 · Exceptions
- 11 · Automatic call forwarding
- 12 · Directories of subscribers
- 13 · Unsolicited communications
- 14 · Technical features and standardisation
- 14a · Committee procedure
- 15 · Application of certain provisions of Directive 95/46/EC
- 15a · Implementation and enforcement
- 16 · Transitional arrangements
- 17 · Transposition
- 18 · Review
- 19 · Repeal
- 20 · Entry into force
- 21 · Addressees
Language versions
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Norwegian is not an official EU language. Norwegian readers use the national register.
National law
One line per country. A line exists only when a primary source has been read; otherwise the national register is linked instead.
| National law | Identifier | Official text |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden: Lag om elektronisk kommunikation | SFS 2022:482 | Official text |
| Norway: Lov om elektronisk kommunikasjon (ekomloven) | LOV-2024-12-13-76 | Official text |
| Germany: Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz | TDDDG | Official text |
| United Kingdom: The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 | SI 2003/2426 | Official text |
| Finland: Laki sähköisen viestinnän palveluista | 917/2014 | Official text |
| Denmark: Line not read yet | — | National register |
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