You are here: Home |
|
 |
clients
|
|||
| Future agenda |
|
|
|
|
Currently, data retention regimes introduced or
planned by the operators worldwide and also in the Member States vary
significantly in scope, the data to be retained, the duration of the retention,
the reimbursement possibilities and the conditions for access to the data. Now
it has become timely to introduce an EU wide harmonization of these
obligations. As a milestone of this process and an indication of a developing global trend, the European Parliament adopted on 14 December 2005 a new EU directive which provides an EU level harmonization of obligations concerning retention of data processed in connection with the provision of public electronic communication services, mobile and fixed line telephony and related services and Internet traffic. The Directive was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 13 April 2006 and entered into force on 3 May 2006. Why you need to plan for 2007 today Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by no later than 15 September 2007. The extent of reimbursement of costs borne by operators to comply with the retention obligations will be decided at the Member State level. Only by having a comprehensive project plan and budget in time you can get favorable financing and reimbursing conditions. Problems arise due to the changes of business models and service offerings and the result is that traffic data may not always be stored by all operators at the same extent. This trend is reinforced by new offerings of Voice over IP communication services in such cases operators no longer have the need to store traffic data for billing or other business purposes. But what does data retention exactly mean? |
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|
Magyarul