News

Date	News
2002-07-31	Directive 2002/58/EC of 12 July 2002 on privacy and electronic communications published in Official Journal
2002-05-30	Euro Parliament Adopts "Opt-In" for Email and ?MS
2002-04-18	Citizens' Rights Committee votes yet again for "soft opt-out"
2002-03-07	Judgement in Amsterdam: XS4ALL wins injunction against sender of UBE
2001-12-06	EU Council votes on E.Privacy directive proposal
2001-10-22	Euro Parliamentary Committee goes for "opt-out" yet again
2001-09-27	Commission Press Release concerning concerning proposed directive on distance selling of financial services
2001-09-06	Euro Parliament refers E.Privacy directive proposal back to committee
2001-08-10	UK Department of Trade and Industry launches public consultation on the implementation of the E.Commerce Directive
2001-07-25	German court allows unsolicited advertising email to local firm
2001-07-13	Report of Parliamentary Committee: UCE not to be banned in order to promote electronic commerce
2001-04-24	Final Draft of Spanish Law on the Information Society and Electronic Commerce to include a ban on UCE
2001-03-01	Entry into force of amendments to the Norwegian Marketing Control Act: Email, Fax, and SMS are "opt-in"
2001-02-02	Publication of European Commission study: "Junk" e-mail costs internet users 10,000 million Euro a year worldwide
2001-01-18	Publication of amended draft to Law on the Information Society and Electronic Commerce in Spain
2000-12-19	'Antispam Directive' Moves to (Euro) Parliament AOL to Say, "me, too" to DMAs' Opposition to Antispam Directive? Italian Radicals Spam Marketers to be Allowed 'One Free Bite' in Finland Despite Local Ban on Unsolicited Commercial Email
2000-11-21	Publication of WP37: Privacy on the Internet An integrated EU Approach to On-line Data Protection (see index )
2000-11-02	Publication of WP36: Opinion 7/2000 of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, concerning the new directive proposal COM(2000) 385 -- "Opt-in is a well-balanced and efficient solution in order to remove obstacles to the provision of commercial communications whilst protecting the fundamental right of privacy of consumers."
2000-09	EuroISPA issues folder *Spam News 1* (GIFs or PDF)
2000-09-04	The UK Department of Trade and Industry announced measures to implement the Distance Selling Directive (97/7/EC) as New Rights for Home Shopping Consumers.
2000-07-17	Electronic Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC) published in Official Journal -- labeling and opt-out registers mandated
2000-07-17	Changes to Denmark's Marketing Practices Act require "opt-in" for advertising email.
2000-07-12	European Commission proposes "opt-in" for advertising email as part of new regulations for electronic communications, COM(2000) 385
2000-05-03	Second reading of ecommerce directive proposal
2000-05-01	Entry into force of the amendments to the Swedish Marketing Practices Act -- includes Opt-Out provision for UCE
2000-02-03	Publication of WP28: Opinion 1/2000 of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party -- "If an e-mail address is collected in a public space on the internet, its use for electronic mailing would be contrary to the relevant Community legislation..."
2000-01-10	Consumer Advocates, Internet Experts Reject Direct Marketing spam Service -- Companies, Consumers Advised to Shun Direct Marketing Association's eMPS Scheme
1999-11-10	Publication of The 1999 Commmunications Review
1999-10-14	Publication of CNIL report Electronic Mailing and Data Protection
1999-05-06	Result of Vote on UCE Ban in the EU Parliament.
1999-03-10	Amendment to ecommerce directive proposal tabled at request of EuroISPA, which will ban all Unsolicited Commercial Email. Related story. Supporters of ban on UCE urged to contact their MEPs now, particularly if MEP is on a committee reporting on directive proposal. Details.
1999-02-02	First EuroCAUCE Press Release: Europeans say NO to Eurospam!, Europäer sagen NEIN zu Eurospam!, ¡Los europeos dicen NO al euro-correo basura!, Les Européens disent NON à l’ "Eurospam", Europa sier NEI til EUROspam!, Europeus dizem NÃO ao Eurospam!.
1999-01-22	Nameserver entries have been added and www.euro.cauce.org is up and running.

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