{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-data-retention-ec-directive-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-data-retention-ec-directive-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110774497",
  "legislation_title": "The Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-data-retention-ec-directive-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n(a) “cell ID” means the identity or location label of the cell from which a mobile telephony call was made or received;\n(b) “data” means traffic data and location data, as defined in paragraph (g), and the related data necessary to identify the subscriber and the registered user;\n(c) “personal data” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998;\n(d) “public communications provider” means:\n(i) a provider of a public electronic communications network; or\n(ii) a provider of a public electronic communications service;\n(e) ‘public electronic communications network’ and ‘public electronic communications service’ have the meaning given in section 151 of the Communications Act 2003;\n(f) “telephone service” means calls (including voice, voicemail and conference and data calls), supplementary services (including call forwarding and call transfer) and messaging and multi-media services (including short message services, enhanced media services and multi-media services);\n(g) ‘traffic data’ and ‘location data’ have the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003;\n(h) “unsuccessful call attempt” means a communication where a telephone call has been successfully connected but not answered or there has been a network management intervention.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 29; section 1 was amended by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36), section 68(1), (2) and (3) and Schedule 8, Part III and by S.I. 2004/3089."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/2426."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110774497/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:17:48.009051+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}