Hardware and software placed on the market that enable access to and use of electronic communications services or access to and use of information society services shall be able to prevent other parties from the use of input, output, processing and storage capabilities of terminal equipment and the processing of information from users' terminal equipment, or making information available through the terminal equipment, including information about and processed by its software and hardware.
Strojna in programska oprema, dana na trg, ki omogoča dostop do elektronskih komunikacijskih storitev ali storitev informacijske družbe ter njihovo uporabo, ponuja možnost, da se drugim osebam prepreči uporaba vhodnih, izhodnih, obdelovalnih in pomnilniških zmogljivosti terminalske opreme in obdelava informacij s terminalske opreme uporabnikov ali dajanje informacij na voljo prek terminalske opreme, tudi informacij o programski in strojni opremi ali informacij, ki jih obdela ta oprema.