The Act on the Implementation of the Conversion Directive was originally scheduled to come into force in January 2023, after the Federal Cabinet had adopted the draft law on the Conversion Directive (EU) 2019/2121 on 6 July 2022.

The requirements for the legally correct data protection consent in newsletters and other advertising measures are repeatedly the subject of court decisions. The higher regional court in Hamm recently dealt with this issue and tightened the requirements -http://www.justiz.nrw.de/nrwe/olgs/hamm/j2022/4_U_201_21_Urteil_20221103.html.