Consultation
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The DPEC was required to be implemented by Member States by 31 October 2003. A public consultation on how to implement it was held from 27 March 2003 to 19 June 2003. Final implementing Regulations were prepared taking into account the responses received and were laid before Parliament on 18 September 2003, which came into force on 11 December 2003.
A copy of the consultation document is available: Consultation document: implementation of the directive on privacy and electronic communications.
The Government published its response to the consultation on 18 September 2003 is available:
Implementation of the directive on privacy and electronic communications - Government response to consultation
This summarises the responses received and the key changes that were made in finalising the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
A list of all those that responded to the consultation is available:
List of responses to the consultation on the privacy directive
In view of the volume of responses received during the consultation, which was 420, individual responses are not available online. However, if you would like to see a hard copy of a non-confidential response from an organisation please e-mail a request to ihtsham.hussain@bis.gsi.gov.uk including your name, address and the name of the respondee. Please note that details of respondees identified by us as private individuals were omitted from the list to protect their privacy.
