News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 16 (14-20.04.2025) and CW 17 (21-27.04.2025)
DIGITAL: The EU Commission invests €140 million in the introduction of important digital technologies as part of the “Digital Europe” programme.
AI: Euractiv reports that more and more people are using AI chatbots to gain their news.
GDPR: The data protection organisation noyb criticises the planned GDPR procedural regulation.
AI: The EU Commission has launched a consultation on rules for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models.
Data protection: European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski has published his annual report. The European Data Protection Board has also published its report for 2024.
DMA: The EU Commission has published its annual report on the implementation of the Digital Markets Act.
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks
- Digital Markets Act enforcement: State of play
- Briefing for the FEMM delegation to UN CSW 69 (17 – 21 March 2025)
- Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services
- AI and copyright: The training of general purpose AI
- Critical approach to EU law-making: French Senate’s report on EU legislation
- How have European banks developed along different dimensions of international competitiveness?
- Invest EU Programme: functioning, performance and future challenges
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- Joint Communication on the EU strategic approach to the Black Sea (until 05.05.2025)
- EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – EU funding for competitiveness (until 06.05.2025)
- EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – EU funding for cross-border education, training and solidarity, young people, media, culture, and creative sectors, values, and civil society (until 06.05.2025)
- EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – EU funding for the single market, and cooperation between national authorities (until 06.05.2025)
- ICT statistics for 2026 (delegated regulation) (until 06.05.2025)
- Information and communication technologies (ICT) usage and e-commerce for 2026 – specifications (until 07.05.2025)
- Information and communication technologies (ICT) usage statistics for 2026 – specifications (until 07.05.2025)
- EU-India relations – new comprehensive strategic approach (until 08.05.2025)
- Submissions of the annual reports by supervisory bodies to the Commission (until 13.05.2025)
- Qualified certificates for electronic signatures and electronic seals (until 13.05.2025)
- Notification of qualified electronic signature & seal creation devices that have been certified by certification bodies (until 13.05.2025)
- Notification and verification of the initiation of a qualified trust service (until 13.05.2025)
- Validation of qualified electronic signatures and seals as well as advanced electronic signatures and seals (until 13.05.2025)
- Requirements for qualified electronic registered services (until 13.05.2025)
- Qualified validation services for qualified electronic signatures and seals (until 13.05.2025)
- Procedural arrangements for peer-reviews of electronic identification schemes to be notified to the Commission (until 13.05.2025)
- Management of remote qualified signature creation devices as a qualified trust service (until 13.05.2025)
- Provision of qualified electronic time stamping services (until 13.05.2025)
- Verification of identity and attributes at qualified certificate or qualified attestation of attributes issuance (until 13.05.2025)
- Qualified preservation services for qualified electronic signatures and for qualified electronic seals (until 13.05.2025)
- Vehicle emissions – methods, tests and requirements for Euro 7 emissions type approval of cars and vans (until 13.05.2025)
- Vehicle emissions – methods and tests for Euro 7 on-board monitoring systems (cars and vans emissions type approval) (until 13.05.2025)
- A Culture Compass for Europe (until 13.05.2025)
- European strategy on research and technology infrastructures (until 22.05.2025)
- Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation – evaluation (until 23.05.2025)
- European Democracy Shield (until 26.05.2025)
- Cities – new policy agenda (until 26.05.2025)
- Connecting Europe Facility 2021-2027 – interim evaluation (until 28.05.2025)
- Connecting Europe Facility 2014-2020 – evaluation (until 28.05.2025)
- Apply AI Strategy – strengthening the AI continent (until 04.06.2025)
- AI Continent – new cloud and AI development act (until 04.06.2025)
- A European Strategy for AI in science – paving the way for a European AI research council (until 05.06.2025)
- The EU Cybersecurity Act (until 20.06.2025)
- EU LGBTIQ equality strategy for 2026-2030 (until 24.06.2025)
- Digital product passport – rules for service providers (until 01.07.2025)
- Anti-racism Strategy (until 08.07.2025)
- Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act – speeding up decarbonization (until 09.07.2025)
Selections of the CW 18 (28.04.2025-04.05.2025)
Council:
The current outlook for the Council’s work in the coming days was not available at our time of writing. You may be able to find it on the Council’s website in the near future.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
- Informal meeting of environment ministers, 28-29.04.2025, Agenda
Preparatory Bodies:
- Working Party of Foreign Relations Counsellors (Relex), 04.2025, Agenda
- WP on Customs Union, 04.2025, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 04.2025, Agenda
- Working Party of Financial Counsellors, 04.2025, Agenda
- WP on Customs Union, 04.2025, Agenda
- WP on Hybrid Threats, 04.2025
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 04.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Financial Services and the Banking Union (Banking Union), 04.2025, Agenda
- JHA COUNSELLORS, 04.2025, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 04.2025, Agenda
- WP on Hybrid Threats, 04.2025
- COREPER II, 04.2025, Agenda
- Political and Security Committee, 04.2025
- COREPER I, 04.2025, Agenda
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)
No meeting of the LIBE Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the LIBE Committee can be found here.
JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)
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 16.04.2025) can be found here.
IMCO Committee (Internal Market)
The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee taking place on 28.04.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:
- Exchange of views on the Digital Markets Act with Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition
- Reporting back from the Working Group on the implementation and enforcement of the Artificial Intelligence Act: Codes of Practice on General Purpose AI models (GPAI)
- A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and sustainable transition
The current timetables of the IMCO Committee (as of 08.04.2025) can be found here.
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
No meeting of the CULT 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. 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.
