News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 27 (30.06.2025-06.07.2025)
AI regulation: The EU Commission does not want any further delays in the development of guidelines for general-purpose AI (euractiv)
Transatlantic relations: US government threatens tariffs again. The US government has announced that all countries that fail to agree new trade deals with the US by the deadline will be subject to the tariffs proposed on 1 April 2025 (politico)
Competition: While there are calls in Germany to suspend the Digital Markets Act, the EU Commission is planning to evaluate it (politico)
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks
- AI and the energy sector
- Identification of hurdles that companies, especially innovative start-ups, face in the EU justifying the need for a 28th Regime
- Children and deepfakes
- Tackling cyberbullying at regional/local level
- Revisiting the GDPR: Lessons from the United Kingdom experience
- Priority dossiers under the Danish EU Council Presidency
- Product safety and compliance in the areas of e-retail and imports from third countries
- EU policy foresight: Anticipating and shaping the EU’s future
- Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- Electronic freight transport information (eFTI) platforms – specifications on the functional requirements (until 8.07.2025)
- Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act – speeding up decarbonisation (until 09.07.2025)
- Digital Networks Act (until 11.07.2025)
- European Data Union Strategy (until 18.07.2025)
- Proposal for an amendment to the InvestEU Regulation (until 18.07.2025)
- eIDAS Regulation – risk management procedures for non-qualified trust service providers (implementing act) (until 18.07.2025)
- eIDAS Regulation – trusted lists (amendment to implementing act) (until 18.07.2025)
- eIDAS Regulation – accreditation of conformity assessment bodies (implementing act) (until 18.07.2025)
- International calls and text messages (SMS) within the EU – fair use and anti-fraud policy (until 21.07.2025)
- Standardisation Regulation – revision (until 21.07.2025)
- Vehicle safety – revising the EU’s roadworthiness package (until 28.07.2025)
- EU industrial maritime strategy (until 28.07.2025)
- EU Ports Strategy (until 28.07.2025)
- Mini omnibus for defence (until 29.07.2025)
- EU Quality Jobs Roadmap (until 29.07.2025)
- Law enforcement cooperation – new Europol Regulation (proposal) (until 31.07.2025)
- European grid package (until 5 August 2025)
- 2026-2030 gender equality strategy(until 11 August 2025)
- Omnibus Regulation Aligning product legislation with the digital age (until 18.08.2025)
- Burden reduction and simplification for competitiveness of small mid-cap enterprises – Omnibus Directive (until 18.08.2025)
- Consumer Agenda 2025-2030 and action plan on consumers in the Single Market (until 31.08.2025)
- Merger guidelines – review (until 03.09.2025)
- Impact assessment on retention of data by service providers for criminal proceedings (until 12.09.2025)
Selected News from the Current Week CW 28 (07 – 13.07.2025)
Council:
The current outlook for the Council’s work in the coming days until 20.07.2025 can be found here.
Summits and Ministerial Meetings:
- Euro Group, 07.2025
- Informal ministerial meeting on employment, 07-08.07.2025, agenda
- Economic and Financial Affairs Council, 07.2025
Preparatory Bodies:
- Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 07.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 07.2025, Agenda
- COREPER II, 07.2025, Agenda
- COREPER I, 07.2025, Agenda
- Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 07.2025
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 07.2025, Agenda
An overview of the various Council dates can be found here.
Commission:
The agenda for the current Commission meeting was not available at the time of going to press. You may be able to find it on the Commission’s website at short notice.
Parliament:
Plenary Sittings (STRA)
The agenda for the current session week can be found here. The following agenda items are relevant from the perspective of the Internet industry:
- Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – Annual Report 2024
- Product safety and compliance in e-commerce and imports from third countries
- Presentation of the programme of activities of the Danish Presidency
- Status of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States
Here you will find the current dates for the current week in the European Parliament. The calendar of meetings for 2025 is available here.
Committees
LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)
No meeting of the LIBE Committee has been scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the LIBE Committee can be found here.
No meeting of the JURI Committee has been scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the JURI Committee can be found here.
No meeting of the ITRE Committee has been scheduled for this week.
The current timetables (as of 30.06.2025) of the ITRE Committee can be found here.
IMCO Committee (Single Market)
The agenda for the joint committee procedure of the IMCO Committee and the Committee on the Environment, Climate Action and Food Safety on 07.07.2025 can be found here.
The agenda for the extraordinary meeting of the IMCO Committee on 07.07.2025 can be found here.
The current timetables (as of 26.06.2025) of the IMCO Committee can be found here.
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
No meeting of the CULT Committee has been scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the CULT Committee can be found here.
Outlook:
An overview of the following meeting 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 CJEU here.Â
