Art. 95 GDPR · Chapter XI: Final provisions
Article 95 GDPR: Relationship with Directive 2002/58/EC
Text as of 28 October 2026 Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026
Summary (not the official text)
The Regulation does not impose additional obligations on natural or legal persons in relation to processing in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services in public communication networks in the Union in relation to matters for which they are subject to specific obligations with the same objective set out in Directive 2002/58/EC.
Official text
This Regulation shall not impose additional obligations on natural or legal persons in relation to processing in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services in public communication networks in the Union in relation to matters for which they are subject to specific obligations with the same objective set out in Directive 2002/58/EC.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Official Journal L 119, 4.5.2016, as corrected. Only the text published in the Official Journal is authentic. © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu
Text as of 28 October 2026.
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- Guidelines 2/2023 on technical scope of Art. 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive
EDPB 02/2023FinalFirst published 16 November 2023Final version 16 October 2024
Interprets the ePrivacy Directive, not the GDPR.