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Wed 10 Oct 2008Irish stance on data directive wrong, EU's court advised
THE GOVERNMENT has lost the first round of a legal battle to overturn an EU law forcing member states to collect phone and internet records to fight terrorism.
The advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said yesterday Ireland was wrong to contend that the data retention directive had been created under the wrong legal base - in essence that Ministers did not have a legal competence to pass the legislation which, Dublin said, should have been dealt with as an intergovernmental agreement.
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