I guess they can. However, the member states must vote on it. It is up to the member states to stop this and up to the genealogical socieities in the member states to lobby their EU representatives. What burns me up is that member states contribute millions to the EU in terms of membership. That comes from taxpayers' money. As a taxpayer I want to see the money spent on resolving real issues, such as human traficking, pedophelia, arms and drugs traficking, organizaed crime, etc and not waste my hard-earned money trying to show some excuse for taking a Brussels shuttle every week or so. This proposal sounds ridiculous. Most countries already have regulations concerning time spans on when data can be made public, ranging from 75 years in Sweden to 100 years in Scotland. I guess this calls for a hunt of the so-called proposal to see just what it is proposing and perhaps following up with contacting our respective Genealogical Societies to start putting pressure on our respective EU representatives. Karen -----Original Message----- From: sct-wigtownshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sct-wigtownshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of sct-wigtownshire-request@rootsweb.com Sent: den 26 juni 2013 9:01 To: sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com Subject: SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE Digest, Vol 8, Issue 104 **************************************************************************** **** When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. **************************************************************************** **** 11 Feb 2013 All Wig list subscribers are in digest mode until list mode starts working again. **************************************************************************** **** Today's Topics: 1. Fw: EU restricting gen. research (Maisie Egger) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:13:32 -0700 From: "Maisie Egger" <campsiehills@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [WIG LIST] Fw: EU restricting gen. research To: <sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <D418BB309A6849099D3AE6F26E26CB41@MaryHP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Can ?they? do this? Maisie http://www.irishtimes.com/news/eu-regulation-could-restrict-genealogical-res earch-1.1440075 ------------------------------ To contact the SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE list administrator, send an email to SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE mailing list, send an email to SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE Digest, Vol 8, Issue 104 ************************************************