Fighting Spam in Europe
03 January 2007, 19:44 CET
Article 13(1) of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive requires Member States to prohibit the sending of unsolicited commercial communications by fax or e-mail or other electronic messaging systems such as SMS and MMS unless the prior consent of the addressee has been obtained (opt-in system).
The link address is: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/policy/ecomm/todays_framework/privacy_protection/spam/index_en.htm
