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This report examines the 1995 EU data protection law reform proposed by the European Commission, with particular emphasis on areas of importance for the UK. Under the new proposals, companies across Europe would only have to deal with one set of data protection rules and be answerable to a single data protection authority – the national authority in the EU country where they have their main base. However, the author argues that several elements of the draft framework have proved controversial - for example, its requirement that consent to process personal data must be given explicitly.