Processing of personnal data and protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector, ISDN

This amended proposal was the result of Parliament's opinion and a new approach with regard to subsidiarity. It was thus greatly simplified in comparison to the initial proposal, avoiding the requirement for technical solutions from the Member States and enabling them greater flexibility in its implementation. Moreover, a clear distinction was made between the protection of subscribers and the protection of users, and provisions were included on legal recourse and the penalties applied in cases of violation of the directive. Finally, with a view to aligning the terminology with the text of the amended proposal on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and in order to ensure the free flow of this data, which supplemented this proposal, as well as to avoid any overlap, several provisions were redrafted or referred back to this text. �