The article reviews the changes proposed by the European Commission in the field of e-privacy, i.e. the proposal of regulation on the processing of personal data and privacy in the electronic communications sector, which is expected to replace the existing legislation, with particular regard to the conditions for consent, as the basis for the processing of electronic communications data. The article analyzes among other things: the matter of the relationship between the already existing legal acts and the draft e-privacy regulation regarding the consent, contemplates the potential scope of application of the new regulation and the entities which shall be the subject to protection of their data of electronic communication, resulting from the project. The article’s analysis concerns the issue of consent, its scope, entities obliged to receive it, as well as the doubts arising from the provisions on obtaining consent, and also the provisions of the proposal on information obligations prior to obtaining consent. In addition, attention has also been drawn to the possibility for service providers to use terminal services and the restrictions imposed therein, the problem of default settings for obtaining the consent, as well as for modified rules for transmission for direct marketing purposes, or concerning creating publicly available directories.