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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/04/14 19:06, Francis Davey wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-08 16:52 GMT+01:00 Roland
Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lists@internetpolicyagency.com"
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">From
another list:<br>
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"There is no automatic annulment of the national
legislation on data<br>
retention, it is up to the member states to abrogate or
modify their<br>
rules"<br>
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<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://radiobruxelleslibera.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/the-annulment-of-%0Athe-data-retention-directive-and-the-messy-consequences-on-national-%0Alegislations/"
target="_blank">http://radiobruxelleslibera.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/the-annulment-of-<br>
the-data-retention-directive-and-the-messy-consequences-on-national-<br>
legislations/</a>><br>
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<div>But uninteresting to our discussion. It is discussing
whether _as a matter of EU law_ transposition measures are
void after the finding of invalidity of a directive they
transpose.</div>
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<div>But the effect of UK or English law is likely to be
more important. This is because the regulations were made
under s.2(2) powers. As far as I can see this means that
the invalidity of the directive means that the regulations
are invalid ab initio. If (on the other hand) the rules on
data retention had been made by UK Act of Parliament, then
they would not have depended on a directive to be valid
and so would not be void in the same way.</div>
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<div>(Of course - and this is a different discussion - the
UK might be prevented by other laws, such as the data
protection directive or the CFR, from passing such an Act
and then it might be possible to have it disapplied under
the Factortame principle).</div>
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<div>Someone pointed me to: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dare.uva.nl/document/102647">http://dare.uva.nl/document/102647</a>
which comes to the same conclusion.</div>
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This likely relevant but not a quick or easy read <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/qcs_opinion_on_data_retention_in">https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/qcs_opinion_on_data_retention_in</a><br>
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Caspar<br>
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