Comment by buzer

No, it's not. ePD is lex specialis in relation to original Data Protection Directive (and later GDPR). DPD was replaced by GDPR, ePD was not. There has been talks about ePrivacy Regulation over the years, but it was shelved again in 2025.

ePD is still active and national laws implement it. GDPR itself is not implemented by national laws as it's EU regulation rather than EU directive. Member States primarily repealed their DPD-based laws after GDPR and implemented various things that GDPR allows (like Article 23 restrictions). Some countries may have explicitly imported GDPR into their own law due to how their own legalization works. Like that's why UK DPA was originally pretty much just copy of GDPR.