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  Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 - Retention of Communications Data by Communications Providers
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require public communications providers retain certain categories of communications data, which they generate or process, for a minimum period of 12 months.
  @ MP voted no against requiring public communications providers retain certain categories of communications data, which they generate or process, for a minimum period of 12 months.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to require public communications providers retain certain categories of communications data, which they generate or process, for a minimum period of 12 months.
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111473894/contents draft Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009], which were laid before this House on 11 February, be approved.
  
  The regulation sought to transpose [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:105:0054:0063:EN:PDF European Union Directive 2006/24/EC] into UK law. 
  
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