Two questions on the status of the data retention directive http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-37880/two-questions-on-the-status-of-the-data-retention-directive Posts in the discussion thread "Two questions on the status of the data retention directive" - MEPs Cappato and Alvaro, both from the ALDE group, have asked questions about the status of implementation of the Data retention directive. They are mentioning the 'exception related to the Internet', as well as the creation of a Platform for Electronic Data Retention. http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-37880#post-103279 Re: Two questions on the status of the data retention directive http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-37880/two-questions-on-the-status-of-the-data-retention-directive#post-103279 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:48:11 +0000 bogomil 26407 The exception is the sections of directive related to Internet can be postponed till march 2009

]]> http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-37880#post-98262 Two questions on the status of the data retention directive http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-37880/two-questions-on-the-status-of-the-data-retention-directive#post-98262 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:03:45 +0000 zoobab 2946 Two MEPs, Alexander Alvaro (ex-rapporter of the directive) and Marco Cappato from the ALDE Group are asking some questions about the status of the implementation of the data retention directive:

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0125/08
by Alexander Alvaro (ALDE) and Marco Cappato (ALDE)
to the Commission

Subject: Transposition of Directive 2006/24/EC on data retention

Directive 2006/24/EC[1] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15
March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection
with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services
or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC
stated that Member States had to transpose it no later than 15 September
2007. Member States also had a possibility to postpone the application of
the Directive to the retention of communications data relating to Internet
access, Internet telephony and Internet e-mail until 15 March 2009, by
notifying the Council and the Commission by way of a declaration. The
Commission has already sent letters of formal notice in November to some
Member States which did not transpose the directive in time.

Can the Commission illustrate which Member States transposed the directive,
which did not, which were sent a letter of formal notice, which replied,
with which justifications for the delay, and when will it send out reasoned
opinions and to which Member States? Could the Commission illustrate which
Member States have used the exception related to the Internet

[1] OJ L 105, 13.4.2006, p. 54.

What is this "exception related to the Internet?"

Another question about the creation by the European Commission of a Platform for Electronic Data Retention:

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0124/08
by Alexander Alvaro (ALDE) and Marco Cappato (ALDE)
to the Commission

Subject: Platform for Electronic Data Retention

The Commission has listed in its 2008 Forwarding Programme a ‘Draft
Commission Decision to establish a Platform for Electronic Data Retention
in order to ensure that the data are available for the purpose of the
investigation, detection and prosecution of serious crime’ to be adopted in
January 2008.

Could the Commission illustrate such a proposal, explain who will be
invited to take part in this Platform, what will be its aims, tasks and
powers, and if its work will be transparent? Will the Commission adopt the
proposal in January and when will the Platform then be established?

If this platform is like the ICT Task Force efforts created by the Commission, you can expect closed rooms meetings in Brussels.

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