Translation of "Règlement sur l'équipement fourni par l'abonné " (French → English) :

When keeping the information required under this Regulation for the identification of other economic operators, economic operators should not be required to update such information in respect of other economic operators who have either supplied them with an appliance or a fitting or to whom they have supplied an appliance or a fitting.

Equipment on which consumers ride or travel which is operated by a service provider should be excluded from the scope of this Regulation since it has to be dealt with in conjunction with the safety of the service provided.

There are currently several ways in which the separate sale of regulated retail roaming services could be technically implemented, including dual International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) (two separate IMSI on the same SIM card), single IMSI (the sharing of one IMSI between the domestic and roaming providers) and combinations of dual or single IMSI together with the technical modality that does not prevent the customer from accessing regulated data roaming services provided directly on a visited network, by means of arrangements between the home network operator and the visited network operator.

Such basic personalised tariff information shall be delivered to the roaming customer's mobile telephone or other device, for example by an SMS message, an e-mail or a pop-up window on the computer, every time the roaming customer enters a Member State other than that of his home network and initiates for the first time a regulated data roaming service in that particular Member State.

Such basic personalised tariff information shall be delivered to the roaming customer's mobile telephone or other device, for example by an SMS message, an e-mail or a pop-up window on the computer, every time the roaming customer enters a country other than that of his home network and initiates for the first time a regulated data roaming service in that particular country.

The 2006 Data Retention Directive obliges telephony and internet service providers to retain, for the purpose of investigating, detecting and prosecuting serious crime, electronic communication traffic and location data, as well as information about subscribers (including their telephone number, IP address and mobile equipment identifier).[41] The Data Retention Directive regulates neither the access to nor the use of data retained by national authorities.