The Electronic Communications Act of 13 June 2005 was
recently amended in order to implement, amongst other provisions,
the new European rules on the use of cookies, thereby making the
use of cookies subject to prior consent. The new rules entered into
force on 4 August 2012.
1. Definition of cookies
Cookies are small files placed on a subscriber's or
user's computer which allow information about the user to be
gathered. Cookies are typically used by e-commerce websites in
order, for example, to remember certain user settings, such as
language, or make the website more user-friendly (e.g. the content
of a shopping cart will remain available when the user leaves the
webpage).
Cookies can also be used for a variety of other purposes, such
as monitoring the user's internet behaviour in order to send
targeted advertisements (so-called behavioural advertising) or for
analytical purposes (e.g., analysis of the most visited pages on a
website, the success of an
