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EU Digital Policy

Digital single market – general rules

• 2030 digital decade policy programme
• ICT-related recommendations to help the EU turn into a more energy-efficient, low-carbon economy
• Free flow of non-personal data in the European Union
• Radio Spectrum Policy Group
• The EU’s ideas on how to move to a successful data-driven economy
• European cybersecurity network and competence centre
• Enjoying online content without borders
• Digital Services Act – supervisory fees on providers of very large online platforms and search engines
• Digital Services Act
• Digital Markets Act
• Digital Europe programme (2021–2027)
• Contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services
• Data protection in the electronic communications sector
• Accelerating the digital transformation of governments in the EU — 2016-2020 action plan

Regulatory framework

• Cybersecurity of network and information systems (2022)
• European Electronic Communications Code
• European data governance
• E-commerce - standard EU rules
• Online intermediation services — fairness and transparency for business users
• Single market transparency directive
• The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)
• Regulating the radio spectrum
• Safe use of mobile phones on aircraft

Competition rules

• Boosting competition and encouraging investment in next-generation access electronic communications networks
• Fair market conditions for telephone handsets and other communication equipment
• Competition in the markets for electronic communications networks and services

Electronic communication networks

• 2030 digital decade policy programme
• Making critical entities more resilient
• The EU Cybersecurity Act
• Convention on international interests in mobile equipment
•  Internet networks
  • Attacks against information systems
  • Europe’s role in shaping the future of Internet governance
  • Online gambling: protecting consumers, players and children
  • Protecting electronic pay services against piracy
  • More secure transactions on the Internet
  • The .eu top-level domain
  • Cybersecurity of network and information systems (2022)
  • Actions to reduce the costs of deployment of high-speed electronic communications networks
•  Mobile networks
  • Roaming charges within the European Union
  • Open internet access and intra-EU communications
  • Frequency bands for electronic communication
•  Radio networks
  • Selection and authorisation of mobile satellite services (MSS)
  • New rules for the commercialisation of radio equipment
  • Short range devices, RLAN (WiFi), Internet of Things, ultra-wide band (UWB) equipment and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
  • Radio Spectrum Policy Programme

​EU data economy & data protection

• Open data and the reuse of public-sector information
• European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
• European data governance

Personal data & privacy rules

• Balancing public security with data protection
• EU–New Zealand agreement on the exchange of personal data
• EU-US personal data exchanges
• EU-US agreement on personal data protection
• EU-US agreement on airline passenger name record data
• Protecting personal data that is used by police and criminal justice authorities (from 2018)
• General data protection regulation (GDPR)
• Use of passenger records to prevent terrorism and serious crime
• Restrictions of data subjects’ rights — Commission’s internal rules
• Right to be forgotten on the Internet

EU copyright & audiovisual rules

• Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
• The Marrakesh Treaty
• Regulation implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in the EU
• Directive implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in the EU
•  Copyright and related rights
  • Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
  • EU rules on protecting trade secrets
  • Ensuring technology transfer agreements respect competition rules
  • Legal protection: databases
  • Resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art
  • Rental, lending and certain other rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property
  • Computer programs — legal protection
  • Copyright — broadcasters’ online transmissions and retransmissions of television and radio programmes
  • Copyright and related rights: term of protection
  • Copyright and related rights: satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission
  • Copyright and related rights in the information society
•  EU audiovisual rules
  • Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD)
  • Enjoying online content without borders
  • Improving the online licensing of music across the EU
  • Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances