Traduction de «Publicité électronique non sollicitée » (Français → Anglais) :

This rules does however not apply to the permissibility of unsolicited communications by electronic mail (see Articles 3 of the Directive on Electronic Commerce and its Annex).

The Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications bans unsolicited commercial communications to individuals across the EU.

With only a few days to go before the 31 October deadline for the transposition of the new Directive for Privacy and Electronic Communications, European Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society Erkki Liikanen will host a workshop on unsolicited communications or spam on 16 October in Brussels.

The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill bans advertising and promotion whose purpose or effect is to promote a tobacco product; it includes advertising in press or electronic media, free distribution, brand sharing and sponsorship (if the purpose or the effect is to promote a tobacco product).

(30) The sending of unsolicited commercial communications by electronic mail may be undesirable for consumers and information society service providers and may disrupt the smooth functioning of interactive networks; the question of consent by recipient of certain forms of unsolicited commercial communications is not addressed by this Directive, but has already been addressed, in particular, by Directive 97/7/EC and by Directive 97/66/EC; in Member States which authorise unsolicited commercial communications by electronic mail, the setting up of appropriate industry filtering initiatives should be encouraged and facilitated; in additio ...[+++]n it is necessary that in any event unsolicited commercial communities are clearly identifiable as such in order to improve transparency and to facilitate the functioning of such industry initiatives; unsolicited commercial communications by electronic mail should not result in additional communication costs for the recipient.

The proposal for a Directive, which was foreseen in the Commission's April 1997 electronic commerce Communication (see IP/97/313), covers all information society services, both business to business and business to consumer services, including services provided free of charge to the recipient e.g. funded by advertising or sponsorship revenue and services allowing for on-line electronic transactions such as interactive teleshopping of goods and services and on-line shopping malls.