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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10296

19 January 2011
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 33
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Doubts over German Bill on personal data

Brussels, 18/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Commission expressed reservations on Tuesday 18 January over the German Bill transposing the 2005 European directive on data retention (which is currently being re-assessed by the European Commission). Since the Karlsruhe Constitutional Court ruled in March 2010 that data retention was illegal, Germany has had no law in this area. The German Bill makes provision for a limited system of data retention - a “fast freeze” of data approach...

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