On November 22, the Permanent Representatives Committee of the Council of the European Union (COREPER) rejected the Council’s position on the draft e-Privacy Regulation. This means that the acceptance of the long-awaited e-Privacy Regulation that should complement the GDPR is still not on the horizon.
The Commission presented the first version of a new e-Privacy Regulation in January 2017 with the ambition that it should have become applicable together with the GDPR. Due to the fact that some points of the draft legislation were highly debated by the Member States, the process was much slower than the Commission had originally expected. The Finnish Presidency made an attempt from July 2019 to push the draft toward acceptance but this attempt seems to be failed on November 22.