Open coalition letter on the future of the ePrivacy Regulation

The undersigned Associations – smartEn, EER, ESMIG, EURELECTRIC, EHPA, and SolarPower Europe – welcome the European efforts to clarify important data protection rules with the ePrivacy Regulation that is currently being deliberated in Council. While we strongly support the regulation’s core objective to protect electronic communication and user’s electronic data, we are concerned about the current texts being discussed within the Council. Despite the fact that the public discourse has so far been centred around cookies and data for online advertising, the proposals would also have far-reaching consequences for all energy companies involved in the decarbonisation and digitalisation of the energy system.