Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC (c. 24)

Article 10 Statistics

1. Member States shall ensure that the Commission is provided on a yearly basis with statistics on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or a public communications network. Such statistics shall include:

• the cases in which information was provided to the competent authorities in accordance with applicable national law,

• the time elapsed between the date on which the data were retained and the date on which the competent authority requested the transmission of the data,

• the cases where requests for data could not be met.

2. Such statistics shall not contain personal data.