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ePrivacy Directive

Directive 2002/58/EC

Confidential communications, and consent before non-essential cookies.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The official text prevails.

Directive. National laws were due 31 October 2003

Checked against the official sources on 28 October 2026

Explanation reviewed on 28 October 2026

Official text (EUR-Lex)

When each part applies

  1. National laws due

  2. Today

What it means for you

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    Evidence

Proposed changes, not law yet

The EU is discussing these. Until they are adopted and published in the Official Journal, the current text applies.

Digital Omnibus

Proposal, not law

COM(2025) 837 · 2025/0360(COD)

Would change the GDPR, the Data Act, the cookie rules and incident reporting under NIS2, and would fold the Data Governance Act into the Data Act.

  1. Proposed
  2. Parliament committee
  3. Parliament plenary
  4. Council position
  5. Trilogue
  6. Provisional agreement
  7. Adopted
  8. Published

Council position agreed 21 October 2026. Parliament: committee stage (ITRE lead), no vote yet.

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