The View from Brussels #4-2025

News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week

News CW 04 (20.01.2025-26.01.2025)

Digital Services Act: The Commission welcomes the integration of the revised Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online into the Digital Services Act.

Hybrid threats: Germany proposes a tougher EU response to hybrid threats from Russia.

Central registry of opt-outs: The European Commission calls for a feasibility study on a central registery of opt-outs under the Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception.

Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks

• Understanding EU data protection policy
• Revision of the EU legislation on design protection

Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations

• Single market strategy 2025 (until 31.01.2025)

Selections of the CW 05 (27.01.2025-02.02.2025)

Council:

The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 09.02.2025 can be found here.

Summit and Ministerial Meetings:

• Foreign Affairs Council, 01.2025, Agenda

Preparatory Bodies:

• Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 01.2025, Agenda
• Ad Hoc WP on preparedness, response capability & resilience to future crises, 01.2025, Agenda
• WP on Hybrid Threats, 01.2025
• WP on Civil Law Matters (JUSTCIV), 01.2025, Agenda
• WP on Telecommunications and Information Society, 01.2025, Agenda
• WP on Financial Services and the Banking Union, 01.2025, Agenda
• WP on Energy, 01.2025, Agenda
• Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 01.2025
• Trade Policy Committee (TPC) – Experts (Services and Investment), 01.2025, Agenda
• COREPER I, 01.2025, Agenda
• COREPER II, 01.2025, Agenda
• WP on Information Exchange and Data Protection (DAPIX), 01.2025, Agenda
• WP on Maritime Issues (EU Maritime Security Strategy – EUMSS), 01.2025, Agenda
• WP on Telecommunications and Information Society, 01.2025, Agenda
• WP on Tax Questions – Indirect Taxation, 01.2025, Agenda
• Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 01.2025, Agenda
• WP on Financial Services and the Banking Union, 01.2025, Agenda
• COREPER II, 01.2025

An overview of the various Council dates can be found here.

Commission:

The agenda of the current Commission meeting was not available at our time of writing. You can potentially find it on the Commission’s website in the near future.

Parliament:

Plenary Sittings (BXL)

The agenda for the current plenary sittings week can be found here.

Here you can find a list of the upcoming dates of the European Parliament. The calendar of the plenary sittings for 2025 is available here.

Committees

LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)

The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee taking place on 27 and 28.01.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

• Presentation of the 8/2024 Special Report on the EU Artificial Intelligence

ambition by the European Court of Auditors

• 2023 discharge: General budget of the EU – European Data Protection

Supervisor

The current timetables of the LIBE Committee and the ECON Committee (as of 28.01.2025) can be found here.

The current timetables of the LIBE Committee and the FEMM Committee (as of 28.01.2025) can be found here.

The current timetables of the LIBE Committee can be found here.

JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)

The agenda for the current meeting of the JURI Committee taking place on 29 and 30.01.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

• Presentation of the EPRS study on the “Proposal for a directive on adapting

non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence: Complementary

impact assessment“

• Hearing on the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the

Council on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence

(AI Liability Directive)

The current timetables of the JURI Committee can be found here.

ITRE Committee (Industry)

The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee taking place on 29 and 30.01.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

• Exchange of views with Mr Dariusz Standerski, Secretary of State, Ministry of

Digital Affairs (ICT, digital, cybersecurity, innovation)

• Exchange of views with the Commission on the Union’s Secure Connectivity

Programme (IRIS²)

• Presentation of the Annual Report 2024 of the Inter-institutional Cyber Security

Board (IICB) by Mr Lorenzo Mannelli, Chair of IICB and Director-General for

Innovation and Technological Support (DG ITEC) and Mr Saad Khadi, Head of

CERT-EU and Director of Cybersecurity Service for the Union institutions,

bodies, offices and agencies (DG DIGIT)

The current timetables of the joint procedure of the ITRE Committee and the INTA Committee (as of 29.01.2025) can be found here.

The current schedules (as of 22.01.2025) of the ITRE Committee can be found here.

IMCO Committee (Internal Market)

The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee taking place on 27 and 28.01.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

• Working group on the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) • Reporting back to committee by Andreas Schwab (PPE), Chair of the Working

group

• Working Group on the implementation and enforcement of the Artificial Intelligence Act • Reporting back to committee by Brando Benifei (S&D), Co-Chair of the Working group
• Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on

adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence (AI Liability

Directive)

• Social media compliance with Digital Services Act (DSA) in the context of recent

developments • Exchange of views

• ECA special report 03/2025 – Unjustified geo-blocking in e-commerce

The current schedules of the IMCO Committee (as of 13.01.2025) can be found here.

CULT Committee (Culture and Education)

The agenda for the current meeting of the CULT Committee taking place on 29 and 30.01.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

• Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual

abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)

The current schedules of the CULT Committee can be found here.

Outlook:

An overview of the following session weeks can be found here. The provisional agenda for the upcoming plenary sittings can be found here.

European Court of Justice

You can find the judicial calendar of the ECJ here.