Last week’s article by Aidan Eardley on libel tourism questioned whether the European Parliament’s proposals concerning defamation and privacy claims would survive in the final Rome II Regulation (see NLJ, 18 May 2007, p 686).
After NLJ had gone to press, the EU announced that agreement had been reached on the final text of the regulation. According to the announcement, the provisions concerning “media violations of privacy” will not be included but the Council and the Parliament have called upon the Commission to present a detailed study, by the end of 2008, on this “highly controversial question”.
