News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 10 (03.03.2025-09.03.2025)
Technology trends: According to a study, 70% of surveyed Board members from the DACH region reported generating measurable business value through AI applications. Alongside efficiency gains, respondents reported cost reductions and increases in turnover. The study also revealed that cybersecurity technologies (81%) and cloud computing (80%) will be crucial for business success over the next five years.
AI: The NGO Finance Watch fears that artificial intelligence could and endanger the stability of the financial markets and undermine consumer rights and therefore advocates clear regulation.
Data centres: The lobby group Digitaleurope has proposed a data centre sustainability assessment scheme that aims to balance transparency and operational realities while driving significant environmental improvements across the industry.
STEP: The Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform has mobilised over 15 billion Euros in its first year. It funds digital technologies and deep tech innovations, clean and resource-efficient technologies and biotechnologies.
Digitalisation: An electronic registration system for non-EU citizens is to be gradually introduced at the EU’s external borders.
European Health Data Space: The European Health Data Space Regulation (EHDS) will come into effect on 26 March 2025.
Selected publications from the EP Think Tank
- Research for REGI committee – Exploring Strategies for Using Cohesion Funds to Address Social and Economic Challenges in the EU
- Navigating challenges to UK data adequacy
- Private financing of innovation in the EU
- Research for TRAN Committee Transport and tourism in outermost regions: assessing mobility poverty and the effects of new climate policies.
- Future of European
- Units of skills
- Commission proposal for a revised Facilitation Directive: Targeted substitute impact assessment
Ongoing relevant consultations of the European Commission
- 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 ” subsystem telematics applications”(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)
- Shipments of waste – Interoperability of systems for the electronic transmission and exchange of information and documentation (until 2 April 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 6 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 6 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 6 May 2025)
- Connecting Europe 2021-2027 – interim evaluation Facility (until 28 May 2025)
Selected news from the current week week 11 (10.03.2025-16.03.2025)
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 16 March 2025 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meeting:
- Euro Group, 10 March 2025, Agenda Agenda
- Economy and Finance Council, 11 March 2025, Agenda
- Competitiveness Council (Single Market and Industry), 12/03/2025, Agenda
- EU-South Africa summit, 13 March 2025,
Preparatory Bodies:
- COREPER II, 10 March 2025, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 03.2025, Agenda
- Intellectual Property Group (copyright), 03.2025,
- Healthcare” group, 10 March 2025,
- JHA COUNSELLORS, 11/03/2025,
- Law Enforcement Working Party (Police), 03.2025,
- WP on Hybrid Threats, 03.
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 11 March 2025, Agenda
- Terrorism Working Party (TWP), 12/03/2025,
- Trade Policy Committee (TPC) (Experts – Services and Investment), 03.2025,
- COREPER II, 12 March 2025, Agenda
- Security Committee (Information Assurance – Qualified Public Authorities, Experts), 03.2025, Agenda
- Terrorism Working Party (TWP), 12/03/2025,
- Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth – Better regulation, 13 March 2025,
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 03.
- Visa” Working Party, 13 March 2025,
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 13 March 2025, Agenda
- COREPER I, 14 March 2025, Agenda
- COREPER II, 14 March 2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Information Exchange and Data Protection (DAPIX), 14 March 2025, Agenda
- Competitiveness and Growth Group (Single Market), 14/03/2025, Agenda
You can find an overview of the various Council dates 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 (STRA)
The agenda for the current plenary sittings week can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:
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)
No meeting of the LIBE Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the LIBE Committee can be found here.
No meeting of the JURI Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the JURI Committee can be found here.
No meeting of the ITRE Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 4 March 2025) 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 found can behere
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
No meeting of the IMCO Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the CULT Committee can be found here.
Outlook:
An overview of the following session weeks can be found here.
European Court of Justice
You can find the judicial calendar of the CFI(H) here.
