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0 points123pie1234y ago0 comments

From my understanding GDPR and all other EU wide ideas or "Laws" are issued as Directives, each country then has to implement the directives in their own countries laws.

some/ most implement directives in cut and paste manner some don't.

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detaro4y ago

> GDPR and all other EU wide ideas or "Laws" are issued as Directives,

No. The fact that the last letter in "GDPR" is not "D" is a pretty good hint that it's not a Directive ;)

It's a Regulation. Regulations apply directly, and are not translated into local law.

But omgitsabird is correct that GDPR is not the relevant basis here, but a clause in French Data Protection Law. And this clause exists because of the ePrivacy Directive.

123pie123OP4y ago

thanks,

I hadn't realised that regulations existed in this manner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)

so the EU regulations come into Law of all EU countries via "Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union"

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