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European Parliament to get new powers over Oftel
News The European Parliament has voted to adopt three draft directives dealing with a proposed new regulatory framework for communications networks that will put now limits on bodies such as the UK's telecoms regulator Oftel.
[March 5, 2001, 6:39]
European Parliament urges open source protection against Echelon
News The European Parliament is suggesting that individuals and business routinely encrypt all emails to help protect them from eavesdropping by Echelon, the communications spy network. In its draft report into Echelon, the European Parliament says that...
[May 24, 2001, 20:20]
European Parliament set to approve roaming cuts
News On Thursday, the European Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, and the Culture and Education Committee, approved a European Commission proposal to reduce international mobile-roaming charges by 70 percent.
[March 22, 2007, 16:11]
European Parliament blocks patent liberalisation
News The European Parliament on Wednesday voted against a proposal that would have allowed companies to defend nationally granted patents throughout the EU region. Rufus Pollock, the director of FFII UK, said that the Parliament's vote was a "great...
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
News Burst: European parliament votes for faster unbundling
News European Parliament votes in favour Thursday of the EC's proposals to open up telecoms across Europe, promising lower access prices and a faster rollout of broadband service. The ratification from the European Parliament means the regulation will...
[October 26, 2000, 14:53]
European Parliament accepts telecoms competition laws
News The European Parliament has accepted a compromise telecom package to open up the telecommunications market to internal competition. The implications will be huge," said a spokeswoman at the European Parliament (EP).
[December 13, 2001, 16:20]
European Parliament restricts access to personal data
News The European Parliament (EP) Civil Liberties Committee approved a report by the radical MEP Marco Cappato on Wednesday, in favour of a strict regulation of law enforcement authorities' access to personal data in the electronic communications sector.
[July 12, 2001, 15:54]
European Parliament cries foul over patent directive
News The European Parliament (EP) and the Danish parliament are investigating whether the EU Council broke procedural rules by adopting the draft directive on software patents in the face of opposition from ministers.
[March 9, 2005, 12:30]
Patents directive wins European Parliament OK
News The European Parliament has voted to approve a highly controversial directive governing the patentability of computer-implemented inventions -- including software -- but with amendments that appear to be a victory for critics of the original...
[September 24, 2003, 18:05]
European Parliament blocks patent liberalisation
Talkback One must be very poorly informed today to even consider software patents at the EU level. The only way to put a stop to all that lobbying, conflict of interests and the rest is to ban software patents all together for the next 50 years or so.
[March 20, 2006, 22:48]
European parliament launches investigation into Echelon
News The investigation will concentrate on whether the US and other involved countries have used this network to gain business advantage for companies. This follows the announcement that France's counter-intelligence agency will carry out its own...
[July 7, 2000, 16:46]
EU decision on email spam imminent
News According to sources within the European Parliament, a decision has already been made and will be announced this afternoon. The Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs committee will decide whether or not the European Parliament...
[July 11, 2001, 12:43]
EU lawmakers vote to introduce net neutrality
News The European Parliament has voted through a massive tranche of reforms for the European telecommunications sector, including a significant net-neutrality amendment. I welcome the European Parliament's strong endorsement of the reform of the EU...
[May 6, 2009, 17:10]
MEP: Media industry must not infiltrate data retention laws
News European Parliament for pushing for an extension to the proposed Data This was rejected by the European Parliament's civil liberties committee, which approved the directive as it stood, without the proposed changes, and sent it onto the full
[November 29, 2005, 13:25]
Euro MPs bow to big names in music
News The proposed law at the centre of the European Parliament debate would give news, book, music and film publishers a very high level of protection against piracy in digital media and would effectively prevent temporary copying of information on the...
[February 10, 1999, 17:07]
European quango set to take up Net tax issue
News An e-policy think tank was created in the European Parliament on Monday to look at the issue of Internet taxation. Relationships between industry and the European Parliament have not always been good.
[February 22, 2000, 16:08]
Linux Alliance protests software patenting
News International organisation The EuroLinux Alliance announces Friday an online petition against the European Parliament's proposed introduction of software patents. The European Parliament expects in the next few months to issue a directive as to...
[June 16, 2000, 10:27]
Anti-piracy directive could expose consumers
News Minor copyright infringements could lead to harsh sanctions under the anti-piracy directive approved by the European Parliament on Tuesday, according to a UK civil liberties group. The European Parliament said it had worked to limit the...
[March 10, 2004, 13:20]
'DMCA on steroids' passed by EU
News On Tuesday the European Parliament passed controversial legislation aimed at cracking down on copyright pirates, ranging from DVD counterfeiters to illicit Viagra sellers online. The House voted for an amendment stipulating that main enforcement...
[March 10, 2004, 7:35]
Europe weighs Echelon threat
News The European Parliament is evaluating the possible dangers of Echelon, a rumoured US-sponsored global surveillance network, according to a report from ZDNet France. According to a spokesman for Alima Boumediene-Thiery, French deputy for the Green...
[March 23, 2000, 15:15]
