News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
Notifications week 09 (24/02/2025-02/03/2025)
ECJ: The judgement in the case Alphabet Inc, Google LLC, Google Italy Srl v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (C-233/23) announced in the last View from Brussels can be found here.
Cybersecurity Blueprint: The Commission has published a cyber emergency plan.
Trade and Technology Council: An overview of the most important results of the second meeting between the EU and India can be found here.
AI: Police authorities from 20 countries around the world have worked together to arrest 25 people for distributing AI-generated images of child abuse ( politico ).
Selected publications of the EP Think Tank
- STEM education high on the EU
- Violence and organised crime in the
- Algorithmic discrimination under the AI Act and the
- China’s increasing presence in Latin America: Implications for the European
Ongoing relevant consultations of the European Commission
- Cooperation between tax authorities – adoption of standard forms and electronic formats (until 4 March 2025)
- Geoblocking Regulation – Evaluation (until 11 March 2025)
- European Internal Security Strategy (until 13 March 2025)
- Interoperability real-world laboratories – rules and conditions for their establishment and operation (until 13/03/2025)
- Railway interoperability – Technical specifications for the “telematics applications” subsystem (until 14 March 2025)
- Agricultural products – Adaptation of the provisions on import licences and tariff quotas with regard to the use of electronic documents (until 20.03.2025)
- Medical devices – electronic instructions for use (until 21 March 2025
- EU competition rules on technology transfer agreements (revision) (until 25 April 2025)
- The EU’s next long-term budget (Multiannual Financial Framework, MFF) – EU funds for competitiveness (until 7 May 2025)
- The EU’s next long-term budget (Multiannual Financial Framework, MFF) – EU funding for cross-border education, training and solidarity, young people, media, culture and creative industries, values and civil society (until 7 May 2025)
- The EU’s next long-term budget (Multiannual Financial Framework, MFF) – EU funds for the Single Market and cooperation between national public authorities (until 7 May 2025)
Selected news from the current week week 10 (03.03.2025-09.03.2025)
Council:
The current outlook for the Council’s work in the coming days until 16 March 2025 can be found here.
Summit and ministerial meeting:
- Informal Ministerial Meeting “Telecommunications”, 04-05 March 2025, Agenda
- Justice and Home Affairs Council (Home Affairs), 05/03/2025, Agenda
Preparatory bodies:
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 03.2025, Agenda
- Audiovisual Working Party, 03.2025, Agenda
- Group “Eastern Europe and Central Asia” (COEST), 03/03/2025,
- COREPER II, 04/03/2025, Agenda
- COREPER I, 03.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Maritime Issues (EU Maritime Security Strategy – EUMSS), 03.2025,
- Working Party on Financial Services and the Banking Union (Banking Union), 03.2025, Agenda
- COREPER I, 03.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Financial Services and the Banking Union (Banking Union),
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 7 March 2025, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 03.2025, Agenda
You can find an overview of the various Council dates here.
Commission:
The agenda for the current Commission meeting was not available at the time of going to press. You may be able to find it on the Commission’s website at short notice.
Parliament:
Plenum
There are no plenary sessions of the European Parliament this week.
Here you will find the current dates for the current week in the European Parliament. The calendar of meetings for 2025 is available here.
Committees
LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)
The agenda for the meeting of the LIBE Committee on 6 March 2025 can be found here. The following agenda item is relevant from the perspective of the Internet industry:
- Amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1727 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Decision 2005/671/JHA as regards the digital information exchange in terrorism cases
The current schedules of the LIBE Committee can be found here.
No meeting of the JURI Committee has been scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the JURI Committee can be found here.
The agenda for the meeting of the ITRE Committee on 6 March 2025 can be found here.
The current timetables (as of 11 February 2025) of the ITRE Committee can be found here
IMCO Committee (Single Market)
No meeting of the IMCO Committee has been scheduled for this week
The current timetables (as of 18 February 2025) of the IMCO Committee can be found here.
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
No meeting of the CULT Committee has been scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the CULT Committee can be found here.
Outlook:
You can find an overview of the following session weeks here. The provisional agenda for the upcoming plenary session can be found here
European Court of Justice
You can find the court calendar of the CFI(H) here
