News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 21 / 20.05.2024-26.05.2024
Dispute over European AI supervision: Around two months after the adoption of the European AI Act, the Parliament and the Commission are now grappling over how to shape the supervision of the technology. MEPs are calling for more transparency from the Commission (euractiv).
German-French industrial policy: Germany and France expect more efforts from the next EU Commission to retain investments in the European economic area. Punitive tariffs also play a role in the considerations (euractiv).
European satellite communications: In order to ensure that connectivity in Europe is sovereign and functional, the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) has spoken out in favour of the introduction of a European digital communications network in space, comparable to the Starlink satellite constellation (politico).
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tank:
There are currently no publications of relevance to the Internet industry.
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- ICT use – specifications for 2025 (technical items, formats & quality reports) (until 28.05.2024)
- Health & safety at work – template to collect data on machinery or related products (until 31.05.2024)
- 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 22 / 27.05.2024-02.06.2024
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 09.06.2024 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
Preparatory Bodies:
- Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 05.2024, Agenda
- WP on Hybrid Threats, 05.2024
- COREPER II, 05.2024
- COREPER I, 05.2024
- Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 05.2024, Agenda
- COREPER I, 05.2024
- Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 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
The next plenary session will take place on 16 July 2024 in Strasbourg. The calendar of the plenary sittings for 2024 is available here (PDF).
Committees
After the EU elections have taken place, the next committee meetings will take place in week 30 (22-25 June 2024).
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.
