Policy & Law
13.03.2025

The View from Brussels #7-2025

News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week

News CW 07 (10.02.2025-16.02.2025)

AI Action Summit: Focus on innovation and investment (Politico).

AI: Euractiv reports on current European investments in AI.

EDPB: The European Data Protection Board has decided to create an AI enforcement task force.

AI: A Commission survey shows that most Europeans support use of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

Media Board: The new European Board for Media Services has held its constitutive meeting. It acts as an independent advisory body, consisting of representatives of the national media regulators. The Media Board is to promote the consistent implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive and to support the Commission with expertise on media regulation.

Safer Internet Day 2025: On 11 February 2025, Safer Internet Day took place.

Geo-blocking Regulation: The Commission has launched evaluation of the Geo-blocking Regulation to assess its impact on the internal market.

Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks

Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations

Selections of the CW 08 (17.02.2025-23.02.2025)

Council:

The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 02.03.2025 can be found here.

Summit and Ministerial Meetings:

Preparatory Bodies:

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

There are no plenary sittings of the European Parliament taking place this week.

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 (PDF).

Committees

LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)

The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee taking place on 17 and 18.02.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

  • Application for the electronic submission of travel data (“EU Digital Travel application”) and amending Regulations (EU) 2016/399 and (EU) 2018/1726 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004, as regards the use of digital travel credentials
  • Issuance of and technical standards for digital travel credentials based on identity cards
  • Exchange of views with Henna VIRKKUNEN, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy

The current timetables of the LIBE Committee and the ECON Committee (as of 19.02.2025) can be found here.

The current timetables of the LIBE Committee and the Petitions Committee (as of 19.02.2025) can be found here.

JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)

The agenda for the current meeting of the JURI Committee taking place on 18.02.2025  can be found here.

ITRE Committee (Industry)

The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee taking place on 19 and 20.02.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

  • Information security in the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union
  • Restructuring the Union framework for the taxation of energy products and

electricity (recast)

  • Energy-intensive industries
  • Structured dialogue with Ms Ekaterina Zaharieva, Commissioner for Startups,

Research and Innovation

  • A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world
  • Structured dialogue with Mr Dan Jørgensen, Commissioner for Energy and

Housing

  • Exchange of views with Ms Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Minister of Climate and

Environment (energy – electricity market) and Ms Marzena Czarnecka, Minister

for Industry (industry, energy – gas and oil markets)

The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 11.02.2025) can be found here.

IMCO Committee (Internal Market)

The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee taking place on 17 and 18.02.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

  • 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

  • Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports
  • 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)

  • Ongoing investigations against e-commerce platforms – latest developments
  • Exchange of views with Commission
  • A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world

The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee and the ENVI Committee (as of 17.02.2025) can be found here.

The current timetables of the IMCO Committee (as of 10.02.2025) can be found here.

CULT Committee (Culture and Education)

The agenda for the current meeting of the CULT Committee taking place on 19 and 20.02.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda item is relevant:

  • A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world

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 CJEU here.

The View from Brussels 11 June 2018

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