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Articles by Mathilde Adjutor
While it can be easy to overlook implementation and enforcement of new tech and digital rules once they have been adopted by EU lawmakers, recent experience underlines the need to keep a close eye on these important final steps in the process. Because this is when regulators and companies test the practicality of tech rules, and when European citizens actually ought to reap the benefits.
Changes made by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU to proposals for new tech and digital rules initially put forward by the European Commission are still the least scrutinised step of the EU legislative process.
Any new EU digital legislation initiated in the future should only seek to address specific and quantifiable problems or gaps that Europeans are facing on a daily basis. Moreover, making sure that new rules are well designed, substantiated by evidence, and focus on a concrete problem will be essential to preventing many unintended consequences down the line.
After 16 months of suspense, the European Commission finally published its draft rules outlining the process and conditions required for researchers to access the data of so-called Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines (VLOPs and VLOSEs)). That’s a mouthful indeed, but this delegated act will be instrumental to the proper implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Starting on Monday 4 November, the European Commissioners-designate will face tough questioning by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) during […]
At the beginning of this year, Italy put in place its national anti-piracy platform, the so-called ‘Piracy Shield’. While the overall aim is to protect intellectual property rights and reduce the spread of pirated content online, particularly in the case of live streams, in practice the Piracy Shield constitutes the perfect example of what to avoid when setting up rules that allow for the blocking of content on the internet.
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Main takeaways European institutions are increasingly developing a habit of publicly championing innovation, while simultaneously creating regulations that directly do […]
Main takeaways About a month ago, the European Parliament and EU Member States kicked off the final negotiations on the […]
Main takeaways The European Commission is expected to soon announce its latest round of “very large online platforms” (VLOPs) and […]
