CAPPATO REPORT ON PRIVACY IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
Decision making process and documents

1. proposal of the EU Commission

European Commission Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector of 12 July 2000 - COM (2000) 385

2. First EP reading

LIBE committee

- draft Cappato report and opinions of other committees
- amendments

EP PLENARY

- draft Cappato report, click on A5-0270/2001 on the this page
- amendments (flags with links to documents)
- debate: 1st part | 2nd part
- result of the vote: after voting on the amendments, the Commission text as modified by the EP is rejected. Cappato asks to send the report back to LIBE committee. For minutes and roll call votes
debate minutes concerning the vote: click on vote, Fishler, President and then Cappato

LIBE committee

- working document
- draft Cappato report and amendments

EP plenary

- draft Cappato report, click on PE A5-0374/2001 on this page
- amendments (from 1 to 42) | es | da | de | el | en | fr | it | nl | pt | fi | sv |
- amendments (from 43 to 44) | es | da | de | el | en | fr | it | nl | pt | fi | sv |
- debate
- result of the vote and roll call votes

3. COUNCIL

- common position
- Council bullettin

4. EU COMMISSION OPINION

- Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament concerning the common position of the Council on the Directive

5. Second EP reading

LIBE committee

- draft Cappato report
- amendments

EP PLENARY

- draft Cappato report, click on A5-0130/2002 on this page
- amendments

Background documents:

- Information on Data Protection and the EU
- Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data
- Status of implementation of Directive 95/46 on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data
- Directive 97/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector
- Opinion 7/2000 of the Working Group on Data Protection on the directive proposal

Comparative tables

- Directive 97 / directive 2000 / opinion of the Data Protection WG
- Directive 2000 / Council common position / EP frst reading position

Council discussions on the Directive

- on the Council bulletin
- analysis and documents on data retention
Statewatch site on www.statewatch.org , and notably:
- Council discussions on data retention: documents
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/jun/97-66.pdf
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/jun/07Aeco147.htm
- Letter of Rodotà, President of the Working Group on Data Protection
- Conclusions of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, 20.9.01
- Bush letter to Prodi

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