On 7 July 2011, in a public lecture* on the privacy implications of “online behavioural advertising”, i.e. the presentation of targeted advertisements on websites based on large scale tracking of consumer behaviour online, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) called on the European Commission to ensure that Article 5(3) of the e-Privacy Directive is fully respected.

Of that, 40% or $10,000 of a $25,000 ceiling was used by the party to buy ads on a national level.

Unfortunately, because it was not advertised widely – it was only advertised in marine magazines – many of the people who could and should have qualified were not allowed into the scheme.

Mass marketing of genetic tests raises several serious problems in ethical, social and legal terms, which the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies considers to require urgent attention.

If we want these new structures to be a success, wide publicity is going to have to be put in place.

8. Favours in principle a country-of-origin regulatory system for all categories of investors, both wholesale and retail, and calls for the revised directive to apply this approach to conduct of business rules as well as marketing and advertising rules; considers that host country restrictions invoking the general good should be introduced parsimoniously and should as far as possible be approximated between Member States; considers that FESCO's proposals on conduct of business rules indicate the scope for convergence and approximation, but that full harmonisation should not be a necessary pre-condition for a country-of-origin system.