The Out-Law.com has reported that a planned vote by the
European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Committee, originally scheduled for April, on proposed reforms to the EU’s Data
Protection Directive has been delayed until October. It is believed the delay
reflected the difficulty EU law makers have had in achieving agreement on the
wording of a new General Data Protection Regulation, first proposed by the European
Commission last year. The article reveals that several EU governments,
including the UK’s, and business groups have expressed concern that the draft
rules are too prescriptive in nature and that they force businesses into taking
burdensome and costly steps towards compliance.
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