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Victory for EU Citizens! Amendment 138 was voted again.
Strasbourg, April 21 2009 – Once again, the European Parliament has demonstrated it can resist pressure and stand for the rights and freedoms of citizens. Amendment 138 (now renumbered amendment 46) was adopted today in ITRE committe, in Strasbourg.
The “Telecoms Package” is a set of five European Directives regulating electronic communication networks. Those directives are currently being modified. These directives are the Authorisation Directive 2002/20/EC, Framework Directive 2002/21/EC Universal Service Directive 2002/22/EC and Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC.
The text was voted in first reading in the European Parliament in Sept.24th 2008. Serious problems arose in this first reading on the issues of Privacy, Network neutrality and regarding the implementation of a mechanism known as “graduated response” at the European level.
The second reading vote will take place on may 5th 2009.
