News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 18 / 29.04.2024-05.05.2024
Gigabit Infrastructure Act: On 29 April, the Council unanimously adopted the trilogue agreement on the Gigabit Infrastructure Act. The text will be published in the EU’s Official Journal in the coming days and will enter into force three days after this publication. The new law will apply 18 months after its entry into force. (Council)
Data retention: In a ruling on 30 April, the ECJ significantly extended the admissibility of the retention of IP addresses. Accordingly, Member States may impose on Internet access providers an obligation to retain IP addresses, in a general and indiscriminate manner, for the purposes of combating criminal offences in general. (ECJ)
Digital identities: The amended eIDAS Regulation was published in the EU Official Journal on 30 April. The regulation was already adopted by the Parliament on 29 February and by the Council on 26 March. It will enter into force 20 days after publication and will be fully implemented by 2026. (Official Journal of the EU)
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tank:
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- ICT use – specifications for 2025 (technical items, formats & quality reports) (until 28.05.2024)
- Terrorist Content Online Regulation – evaluation (until 09.05.2024)
- ICT use and e-commerce – technical specifications for 2025 (data requirements) (until 13.05.2024)
- ICT use – specifications for 2025 (number & titles of variables) (until 13.05.2024)
- Combating child sexual abuse – review of EU rules (until 21.05.2024)
- How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs? (until 30.06.2024)
- Energy labelling requirements for computers (until 18.07.2024)
- Ecodesign requirements for computers – review (until 18.07.2024)
Selections of the Current Week CW 19 / 06.05.2024-12.05.2024
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the coming days until 19.05.2024 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
This week, there are no Council meetings of relevance to the Internet industry.
Preparatory Bodies:
- JHA COUNSELLORS, 05.2024
- COREPER I, 05.2024
- COREPER II, 05.2024
- Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 05.2024
- JHA COUNSELLORS, 05.2024
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 05.2024
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 sessions 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 2024 is available here (PDF).
Committees
LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)
No meeting of the LIBE Committee is scheduled for this week.
JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)
No meeting of the JURI Committee is scheduled for this week.
No meeting of the ITRE Committee is scheduled for this week.
IMCO Committee (Internal Market)
No meeting of the IMCO Committee is scheduled for this week.
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
No meeting of the CULT Committee is scheduled for this week.
Outlook:
An overview of the following session weeks can be found here.
European Court of Justice
You can find the judicial calendar of the ECJ here.
