13th September – Brussels – Together with 72 other organisations, FEDMA is calling for European policy makers to further work on the Direct Marketing rules of the draft ePrivacy Regulation. The ePrivacy Regulation, which is […]
FEDMA promotes legitimate interest as a valid legal basis for processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes. The General Data Protection regulation (GDPR) outlines six grounds, with no hierarchical relationship between them, for the […]
The Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which started on the 1st of July, has picked up the ePrivacy where the Bulgarian Presidency left it. The 6-month Bulgarian Presidency ended up with […]
The UK is looking to forge a new relationship with the EU, which is no easy task, as we’ve seen from fraught and sometimes tense negotiations. Part of this new relationship will include data and […]
The European data protection authorities, assembled in the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), met on the 4th and 5th of July for the EDPB’s second plenary meeting. During this meeting, the European Data Protection Authorities […]
Opinion Column by Ivan Vandermeersch, the Secretary General of the Belgian Association of Marketing (BAM) and Board Member of FEDMA. On 25 April, the Commission communicated that together with the Member States, it was working on a […]
On July 1, Austria took over rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU for the upcoming 6 months. Overal priorities of its Presidency programme are security and migration, securing prosperity and competitiveness through digitalisation and stability […]
Today, 25th of May 2018, sees the new regulatory framework on data protection take effect. GDPR now applies in all EU countries, even if your country has not yet adopted its national implementation laws to […]
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