Brussels, 15/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - Just a few days before the deadline of 31 October set for the transposition of the new "Privacy and electronic communications" directive, which bans the sending of unsolicited commercial communications ("spam") to physical persons, Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for companies and the information society, is to hold a workshop on the subject in Brussels on Thursday 16 October. According to the directive, which was adopted in July 2002 on data of a...