News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 12 (18.03.2024-24.03.2024)
Digital Services Act (DSA): On 21 March, the German Bundestag adopted a regulation on the Single Market for digital services and the promotion of fairness and transparency for commercial users of online intermediation services. The German federal government has thus implemented the European Digital Services Act (DSA). (Euractiv)
Artificial intelligence: On 20 March, the Industry Committee in the European Parliament voted in favour of making it easier for small companies and start-ups to access supercomputers for artificial intelligence (AI) and strengthening environmental standards for such infrastructures. The full amendments can be found here. (Euractiv)
Online identities: The European Court of Justice ruled on 21 March that an EU law passed in 2019 requiring EU citizens to provide fingerprints on their national ID cards is not legal. (Euractiv)
Child protection online: A new approach by the Belgian EU Presidency to draft legislation on the detection and removal of child sexual abuse material on the Internet focuses on the tasks of the coordinating authority, such as risk categorisation or detection mandates. The so-called CSAM Regulation is stuck in the legislative process, as EU Member States cannot agree on which rules protect children and at the same time do not lead to far-reaching restrictions on the privacy of all citizens online. (Euractiv)
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tank:
- Implications of the Digital Transformation on Different Social Groups
- Improving the working conditions of platform workers
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- Proposal for a Council Regulation on HPC (until 08.04.2024)
- Combatting child sexual abuse – Review of EU legislation (until 15/04/2024)
- Data protection in the connection between ICSMS and national customs systems via EU CSW-CERTEX (until 22/04/2024)
- R&D on dual-use technologies – options for support (until 30/04/2024)
- How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs? (until 30/06/2024)
Selections of the Current Week CW13 / 25.03. – 31.03.2024
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 07.04.2024 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
There are no Council meetings (relevant to the Internet industry) this week.
Preparatory Bodies:
- Competitiveness and Growth Group (Single Market), 25 March 2024
- COREPER (2nd part), 25 March 2024
- Working Party on Information Exchange and Data Protection (DAPIX), 25 March 2024
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 25 March 2024
- Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth (Industry), 26 March 2024
- Working Party on Information Exchange and Data Protection (DAPIX), 26 March 2024
- COREPER (1st part), 27 March 2024
- COREPER (2nd part), 27 March 2024
- Working Party on e-Justice, 27 March 2024
An overview of the various Council dates can be found here.
Commission:
The agenda of the current Commission meeting was not available at the time of writing. It should be available on the Commission’s website in the near future.
Parliament:
Plenary Sittings
There are no plenary sitting of the European Parliament this week.
Committees
LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)
No meeting of the LIBE Committee is scheduled this week.
JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)
No meeting of the JURI Committee is scheduled this week.
The current timetables of the JURI Committee (as of 25 March 2024) can be found here.
No meeting of the ITRE Committee is scheduled this week.
The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 19.03.2024) can be found here.
IMCO Committee (Internal Market)
No meeting of the IMCO Committee is scheduled this week.
The current timetables of the IMCO Committee (as of February 2024) can be found here.
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
No meeting of the CULT Committee is scheduled this week.
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.
