On 28 March 2014 a bill was sent to the lower house of
Parliament under which the rules on cookies laid down in the Dutch
Telecommunications Act (Telecommunicatiewet) will be relaxed. For
cookies that 'provide insight into the quality or effectiveness
of service delivered via the internet and have little or no impact
on the internet user's privacy', it will no longer be
required to inform the user and request his consent pursuant to the
Telecommunications Act. Examples of such cookies are analytic
cookies, a/b testing cookies and affiliate cookies, provided -
among other things - that no user profile is drawn up.
For tracking cookies the duty to inform and request consent will
remain in effect. Tracking cookies in this bill have been defined
as cookies with which a user or subscriber can be treated
differently (on the basis of monitoring websites surfing behavior).
It should be remembered that the cookie rules also apply to other
automatic data collection procedures
