EU Council draft proposes shorter waiting period before seeking cookie consent again
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On October 10, 2026, PPC Land reported in its advertising and platform news coverage that a 163-page EU Council draft marked LIMITE and dated October 2 proposes that websites wait only four months after a visitor rejects cookies before seeking consent again for the same purpose. The report says this is shorter than the six-month period in the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus proposal of November 19, 2025. The report does not say whether the draft has been formally adopted or entered into force, or specify its legal applicability or effective date. The draft’s date, “October 2,” does not specify a year; 2026 is inferred from the report date. The source gives no draft number, only the LIMITE marking.
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EU Council draft shortens the Cookie re-consent waiting period to four months
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🟡 Consider
⚠ Risk:The draft has not been adopted by a vote. The four-month waiting period and GDPR amendments are not current law; do not adjust live consent flows based on them.
What happened
Draft Council of the European Union document 13886/26 (163 pages, LIMITE, 2026-10-02) proposes that after a visitor rejects Cookies, websites must wait four months before asking again for consent for the same purpose—shorter than the six months in the Commission’s Digital Omnibus proposal of 2025-11-19 and the Irish Presidency text of 2026-09-03. Ambassadors were expected to review it on 2026-10-11; the 2026-10-07 Coreper meeting did not vote. The draft also lists six strictly necessary purposes that do not require consent, including the newly added purpose of contextual advertising display and effectiveness measurement. [1]
Seller impact
- InferenceIf four months is included in the final text, the maximum frequency of EU website consent prompts will be lower than the Commission’s current six-month proposal. However, recital 45 allows asking again earlier if there is a new service, a significant change, or a loss of choice records. Refusal records are often stored in Cookies; deleting them makes it possible to ask again, so the practical constraint is weaker than the text suggests. Each country must designate its GDPR supervisory authority to oversee Cookie rules. The transition period is 24 months after adoption. [1]
- InferenceA newly added sixth purpose allows contextual advertising display and effectiveness measurement without consent, provided the data is pseudonymized after collection, is not used for profiling or programmatic advertising, and is not linked to past or future activity on or off the site. If adopted, this would reduce reliance on consent on the ad-delivery side, while limiting the scope of measurement. The centralized browser refusal signal was deleted from Article 88b and has not been restored. [1]
Suggested action
First verify the current re-consent interval setting in our consent management platform; do not adjust it based on the four-month draft yet.
Evidence that would disprove the assessment
- Assessment 1：If the text released after the October 11 ambassadors’ meeting restores six months or removes the re-consent interval clause, this assessment no longer holds.
- Assessment 2：If a subsequent Council text removes the contextual-advertising measurement purpose or restores the Article 88b browser signal, this assessment no longer holds.
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- PPC Land advertising and platform updatesOriginal ↗EU Council draft would shorten the waiting period before seeking cookie consent again to four months
An EU Council draft marked LIMITE and dated October 2 proposes that websites wait only four months after a visitor rejects cookies before seeking consent again for the same purpose, less than the six-month period in the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus proposal of November 19, 2025.
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