News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 49 (02.12.2024-08.12.2024)
Network operators: Henna Virkkunen, EU’s Commission Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for Tech Sovereignty, spoke out in favour of a consolidated European telecommunications market at a meeting of EU telecommunications ministers on 6 December. Until now, Virkkunen’s political stance has been the subject of speculation, as she remained largely reserved in her written responses to the EU Parliament and during her confirmation hearings. (Euractiv)
TikTok receives Commission order on data security: The European Commission is increasing its scrutiny of TikTok over its role in the Romanian presidential election. In a recent development, the European Commission has ordered the video-sharing app to “preserve internal documents and information” on the workings of its recommender system and how it handles manipulation risks. Furthermore, TikTok is obliged to store data on breaches of its ban on political advertising. The order encompasses all national elections – not just the Romanian ones – and runs until March. (Politico.eu)
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- Digital product passport – rules for service providers (until 10.12.2024)
- European Digital Identity Wallets – list of certified wallets (until 02.01.2025)
- European Digital Identity Wallets – registration of relying parties (until 02.01.2025)
- European Digital Identity Wallets – security breaches (until 02.01.2025)
- European digital identity framework – verification of electronic attestation of attributes (until 02.01.2025)
- European Digital Identity Framework – cross-border identity matching (until 02.01.2025)
- Travel – digitalising travel documents to make travelling easier (until 17.01.2025)
Selections of the CW 50 (09.12.2024-15.12.2024)
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 15.12.2024 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
- Justice and Home Affairs Council (Home Affairs), 12.2024, Agenda
- Justice and Home Affairs Council (Justice), 12.2024, Agenda
Preparatory Bodies:
- Working Party on e-Justice, 12.2024, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 12.2024, Agenda
- JHA Counsellors, 12.2024
- Audiovisual and Media Working Party, 12.2024, Agenda
- JHA Counsellors, 12.2024
- Working Party on Telecommunications & Information Society, 12.2024, Agenda
- COREPER II, 12.2024
- COREPER I, 12.2024
- Working Party on Competition, 12.2024, Agenda
- JHA Counsellors, 12.2024, Agenda
- Working Party on Intellectual Property – Copyright, 12.2024, Agenda
- COREPER II, 12.2024, 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). The calendar of the plenary sittings for 2025 is available here.
Committees
LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)
The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee taking place on 12.12.2024 can be found here.
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)
The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee taking place on 12.12.2024 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:
- Working Group on the implementation and enforcement of the Artificial
Intelligence Act: Reporting back to committee by Brando Benifei (S&D), Co-Chair of the Working Group.
- Gender equality and effective enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The current timetables of the IMCO Committee (as of 26.11.2024) can be found here.
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. 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.
