The View from Brussels #313

News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week

News CW 35 (26.08.2024-01.09.2024)

International data transfer: The EU and China launched a new communication mechanism for cross-border data transfer on 27 August. This EU-China initiative, which is based on a political agreement from 2023, aims to facilitate data transfer while ensuring compliance with Chinese data laws. (COM)

Selected Publications from the EP Think Tank:

Regulation 1049/2001 on the right of access to documents, including the digital context

Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations

European Digital Identity Wallets – trust framework (until 09.09.2024)
European Digital Identity Wallets – certification (until 09.09.2024)
European Digital Identity Wallets – person identification data and electronic attestations of attributes (until 09.09.2024)
European Digital Identity Wallets – protocols and interfaces to be supported (until 09.09.2024)
European Digital Identity Wallets – integrity and core functionalities (until 09.09.2024)
Report on the first review of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (until 06.09.2024)
Processing of personal data by online service providers – new templates for reporting (implementing act) (until 06.09.2024)
Digital platform employment – technical specifications for data collection (until 02.09.2024)
Beschäftigung auf digitalen Plattformen – neue EU-Initiative (until 02.09.2024)
Digital platform employment – new EU initiative (until 30.09.2024)

Selections of the CW 36 (02.09.2024-07.09.2024)

Council:

The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 15.09.2024 can be found here.

Summit and Ministerial Meetings:

This week, there are no Council meetings of relevance to the Internet industry.

Preparatory Bodies:

Coreper II, 4.09.2024, Agenda
Working Party on „Telecommunications and Information Society”, 09.2024, Agenda
Coreper I, 09.2024, 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 2024 is available here (PDF).

Committees

LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)

The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee taking place on 04.09.2024 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)

JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)

The agenda for the current meeting of the JURI Committee taking place on 05.09.2024 can be found here.

ITRE Committee (Industry)

The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee taking place on 04.09.2024 can be found here.

IMCO Committee (Internal Market)

The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee taking place on 05.09.2024 can be found here.

CULT Committee (Culture and Education)

The agenda for the current meeting of the CULT Committee taking place on 04.09.2024 can be found here.