ISPAI

EuroISPA, which represents ISPAI together with other EU national ISP trade associations, has published a press release on the secretive ACTA trade negotiation between the EU and other key trading partners. The leaks indicate that ACTA if signed in its current form will introduce measures not in line with existing EU legislation through the “backdoor”.

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The ISPAI, in association with EuroISPA, ran a free seminar (Invitation_ISPAI Seminar) for all Internet Service Providers, both ISPAI members and non-members, on Thursday 18th February 2010. The seminar was aimed at owners and managers of ISP businesses offering public access, hosting or communication services in Ireland.

Never before have ISPs and user-focused online services faced so much European (more…)

The draft EU Directive to combat the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, must produce legislation that is truly effective in tackling the Internet dimension of this problem. ISPAI welcomes the improved LIBE Committee amendments – but calls for further improvements to give legal certainty to all partners cooperating to fight this online abuse and so make this legislation a landmark in improving protection of children. (more…)

MADRID: On January 18th EuroISPA together with its partner trade associations presented the European Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry Recommendations for a “Digital Europe Strategy” to the Spanish Presidency of the European Union. (more…)

Directive 2009/136/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services, Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws – Source of the text: eur-lex.europa.eu (more…)