The European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers have now all drafted different versions of the proposed data protection regulation.
Europe's Justice and Home Affairs ministers failed to reach an agreement on the draft legislation at their Council meeting in December 2013.
The Greek government has taken the chair of the Presidency of the EU Council and hopes to thrash out an agreement on the wording of the new legislation by summer 2014. If this happens it is possible that the new regulations could be agreed in 2014 and become law in 2017.
What impact will these changes have on your business? See http://www.electricmarketing.co.uk/EUdata.html