3 Amendments of Gabriele ALBERTINI related to 2007/0248(COD)
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Providers of electronic communications services should ensure that their customers are adequately informed as to whether or not access to emergency services is provided, and are given clear and transparent information in the initial customer contract and at regular intervals thereafter, for example in customer billing information. Equally, where an opt-out system is not adopted in a particular Member State, customers should, in the interest of ensuring comprehensive directory services, at the very least be properly informed of their rights to be included in directory databases and granted an effective opportunity to exercise that right both initially and during the contractual relationship. Hence, customers should be expressly asked at the moment of requesting a service, and at regular intervals thereafter, whether and how they wish relevant information to be included in directory databases. Since mechanisms are available for including information in the directory database without that information being disclosed to users of directory services, hence facilitating more comprehensive directory services without compromising privacy, customers should also be offered this option by access operators. Customers should also be kept well informed of possible actions that the provider of electronic communications service may take to address security threats or in response to a security or integrity incident, since such actions could have a direct or indirect impact on the customer’s data, privacy or other aspects of the service provided.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) A competitive market should ensure that end-users are able to access and distribute any lawful content and to use any lawful applications and/or services of their choice, as stated in Article 8 of Directive 2002/21/EC. Given the increasing importance of electronic communications for consumers and businesses, users should in any case be fully informed of any restrictions and/or limitations imposed on the use of electronic communications services by the service and/or network provider. Where there is a lack of effective competition, national regulatory authorities should use the remedies available to them in Directive 2002/19/EC to ensure that users’ access to particular types of content, services or applications is not unreasonably restricted and, for instance, that unreasonable wholesale access terms are addressed.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 2 – point 4 c (new)
Article 2 – point 4 c (new)
Directive 2002/58/EC
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
(4c) Article 12(2) is replaced by the following: "2. Member States shall ensure that where the inclusion of personal data relating to end-users of electronic communications networks and services in directory databases is automatic, end- users are provided the effective opportunity to remove or limit such data and, where it is not, they be expressly asked at the moment of requesting the service, and at regular intervals thereafter, whether and how they wish personal data to be included in directory databases. End-users shall also be offered the option of having information included in the database but not disclosed to users of directory services, and to verify, correct or withdraw such data. Not being included in a public subscriber directory, verifying, correcting or withdrawing personal data from it shall be free of charge."