Article 9

ePrivacy Proposal

This text is a draft proposal published by the European Council on 4th May, 2018

Chapter 1 (Articles 1 - 4)

General provisions

Article 1 - Subject matter
Article 2 - Material scope
Article 3 - Territorial scope and representative
Article 4 - Definitions
Article a - Consent

Chapter 2 (Articles 5 - 11)

Protection of electronic communications of end-users and of the integrity of their terminal equipment

Article 5 - Confidentiality of electronic communications data
Article 6 - Permitted processing of electronic communications data
Article 7 - Storage and erasure of electronic communications data
Article 8 - Protection of end-users' terminal equipment information
Article 9 - N/A
Article 10 - Information and options for privacy settings to be provided
Article 11 - Restrictions

Chapter 3 (Articles 12 - 17)

End-users' rights to control electronic communications

Article 12 - Presentation and restriction of calling and connected line identification
Article 13 - Exceptions to presentation and restriction of calling and connected line identification, to rejection of incoming calls and to provide access to emergency services
Article 14 - Incoming call blocking
Article 15 - Publicly avilable directories
Article 16 - Unsolicited and direct marketing communications
Article 17 - N/A

Chapter 4 (Articles 18 - 20)

Independent supervisory authorities and enforcement

Article 18 - Independent supervisory authorities
Article 19 - European Data Protection Board
Article 20 - Cooperation and consistency procedures

Chapter 5 (Articles 21 - 24)

Remedies, liability and penalties

Article 21 - Remedies
Article 22 - Right to compensation and liability
Article 23 - General conditions for imposing administrative fines
Article 24 - Penalties

Chapter 6 (Articles 25 - 26)

Delegated Acts and Implementing Acts

Article 25 - Exercise of the delegation
Article 26 - Committee

Chapter 7 (Articles 27 - 29)

Final provisions

Article 27 - Repeal
Article 28 - Monitoring and evaluation clause
Article 29 - Entry into force and application

Recitals (1-42)

Recital 1 - The principle of confidentiality
Recital 2 - Electronic communications and metadata
Recital 3 - Conducting business and natural and legal persons
Recital 4 - Supplementary regulations that address personal data
Recital 5 - N/A
Recital 6 - Repeal of Directive 2002/58/EC
Recital 7 - Member states' authority
Recital 8 - Scope
Recital 9 - N/A
Recital 10 - Radio equipment
Recital 11 - Definition of 'electronic communications'
Recital 12 - Machine-to-machine electronic communications
Recital 13 - Public and private communications networks
Recital 14 - Electronic communications metadata
Recital 15 - Interception of electronic communications data
Recital 16 - Exemptions to the prohibition of storage of communications
Recital 17 - Consent rules for processing metadata
Recital 18 - Validity of consent to process data
Recital 19 - Processing data in transit
Recital 20 - Interference with end-users' terminal equipment
Recital 21 - Obtaining end-users' consent to set cookies
Recital 22 - Browsers and methods for obtaining end-users' consent
Recital 23 - Cookie settings in browsers and other applications
Recital 24 - Appropriateness of methods for obtaining consent via browsers
Recital 25 - Statistical counting services
Recital 26 - Lawful interception of electronic communications data (public interest)
Recital 27 - Anonymity and phone calls
Recital 28 - Bases for identifying calling lines
Recital 29 - Provision of technology to block malicious or nuisance calls
Recital 30 - Personal data and publicly available directories
Recital 31 - Number-based interpersonal communications services
Recital 32 - Definition of direct marketing communications
Recital 33 - Safeguards against intrusive direct marketing communications
Recital 34 - Transparency, end-user consent and direct marketing communications
Recital 35 - Transparency of voice-to-voice direct marketing communications
Recital 36 - N/A
Recital 37 - N/A
Recital 38 - Member states' supervisory authorities
Recital 39 - Territorial competency
Recital 40 - Penalties and fines
Recital 41 - Roles of EU institutions
Recital 42 - Adoption of additional measures
Recital 43 - Repeals