Richard G
Verified User
In the EU we have a new law called E-Evidence Regulation and Directive.
The Regulation lays down the rules under which an authority of a Member State, in criminal proceedings, may issue a European Production Order or a European Preservation Order and thereby (directly) order a service provider offering services in the Union and established in another Member State, or, if not established, represented by a legal representative in another Member State, to produce or to preserve electronic evidence regardless of the location of the data.
This is also appyable to all hosters and registrars too including ZZP business (as we call them in Dutch).
In short, when requested, we are required (mostly within 24 hours but in certain cases within 8 hours) to keep logs of all activity including e-mail traffic (incoming and outgoing) and content if I understood correctly, of an account/domain, when legally requested from a country within the EU.
They start in march 2026 implementing and it will be in effect for everybody august 1st 2026.
Maybe some Dutch collegues @Active8 @Driesp or others, already had the letter from the Ministery as I did the day before yesterday and have a clue on how something like this can more ore less easily be build in or activated or have ideas on how to implement something like that so these kind of things can all be started/saved once asked for by legal action.
The Regulation lays down the rules under which an authority of a Member State, in criminal proceedings, may issue a European Production Order or a European Preservation Order and thereby (directly) order a service provider offering services in the Union and established in another Member State, or, if not established, represented by a legal representative in another Member State, to produce or to preserve electronic evidence regardless of the location of the data.
This is also appyable to all hosters and registrars too including ZZP business (as we call them in Dutch).
In short, when requested, we are required (mostly within 24 hours but in certain cases within 8 hours) to keep logs of all activity including e-mail traffic (incoming and outgoing) and content if I understood correctly, of an account/domain, when legally requested from a country within the EU.
They start in march 2026 implementing and it will be in effect for everybody august 1st 2026.
Maybe some Dutch collegues @Active8 @Driesp or others, already had the letter from the Ministery as I did the day before yesterday and have a clue on how something like this can more ore less easily be build in or activated or have ideas on how to implement something like that so these kind of things can all be started/saved once asked for by legal action.
