The first principle in particular, that of listening, shows that we are prepared, and have the will, to continue with further democratisation.

Of course, some specific measures are proposed to assist businesses, but these are more vague and their scope is less extensive than the measures on individual monitoring.

This definition has been transposed restrictively in the legislation of certain Member States: in BG, the recognition of non-State actors as actors of persecution pre-supposes that they dispose of an organisation as well as the existence of a State which is unable or unwilling to counteract them; the CZ legislation refers only to the 'inability' and not to the 'unwillingness' of the State to provide protection and covers only actors of persecution and not of serious harm, and the SK legislation restricts the notion of "parties" by adding the qualification "political" and does not include international organisations in the definition.

In particular, they shall prohibit listening, tapping, storage or other kinds of interception or surveillance of communications and the related traffic data by persons other than users, without the consent of the users concerned, except when legally authorised to do so in accordance with Article 15(1).

Many of the regulations on bugging, however, are drafted by the Enfopol working party, which is under the control of parliamentary or political forces, but is concerned exclusively with police co-operation.

The UK has also been condemned in a case concerning telephone tapping.