The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC to be invalid on April 8, 2014. The EU Member States are no longer required to transpose the Directive into their national laws. The Member States nevertheless may introduce laws on data retention on a national level, provided those are in line with the relevant constitutional requirements. Laws on data retention already existing in the member states remain valid.
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