Digital single market

Under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Articles 179-180), the EU aims to open up digital opportunities for people and businesses, making full use of the potential of digital data to benefit the economy and society.

The EU aims to make its single market fit for the digital age. This means eliminating unnecessary regulatory barriers and moving from individual national markets to a single EU-wide rulebook.

• • Digital single market – general rules
    • The EU’s ideas on how to move to a successful data-driven economy
    • Digital Services Act – supervisory fees on providers of very large online platforms and search engines
    • Digital Services Act – conduct of certain proceedings by the Commission
    • Digital Services Act
    • Digital Markets Act – conduct of certain proceedings by the Commission
    • Digital Markets Act
    • Digital Europe programme (2021–2027)
    • Enjoying online content without borders
    • Contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services
    • Data protection in the electronic communications sector
    • 2030 digital decade policy programme
    • Accelerating the digital transformation of governments in the EU — 2016-2020 action plan
    • Radio Spectrum Policy Group
    • European cybersecurity network and competence centre
    • Free flow of non-personal data in the European Union
    • ICT-related recommendations to help the EU turn into a more energy-efficient, low-carbon economy
    • Regulatory framework
      • The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)
      • E-commerce - standard EU rules
      • Cybersecurity of network and information systems (2022)
      • Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings – designated establishments and legal representatives of service providers
      • Regulating the radio spectrum
      • Online intermediation services — fairness and transparency for business users
      • European Electronic Communications Code
      • European data governance
      • Safe use of mobile phones on aircraft
      • Rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)
      • Single market transparency directive
    • Competition rules
      • Strengthening the EU’s semiconductor ecosystem – Chips Act
      • Competition in the markets for electronic communications networks and services
      • Boosting competition and encouraging investment in next-generation access electronic communications networks
      • Guidelines on State aid for broadband networks
      • Fair market conditions for telephone handsets and other communication equipment
  • Electronic communication networks
    • European single access point
    • Convention on international interests in mobile equipment
    • 2030 digital decade policy programme
    • Making critical entities more resilient
    • European common criteria-based cybersecurity certification scheme (EUCC)
    • The EU Cybersecurity Act
    • Internet networks
      • Europe’s role in shaping the future of Internet governance
      • Cybersecurity of network and information systems (2022)
      • Attacks against information systems
      • Actions to reduce the costs of deployment of high-speed electronic communications networks
      • More secure transactions on the Internet
      • Protecting electronic pay services against piracy
      • Online gambling: protecting consumers, players and children
      • Gigabit Infrastructure Act (GIA)
      • The .eu top-level domain
    • Mobile networks
      • Roaming charges within the European Union
      • Open internet access and intra-EU communications
      • Frequency bands for electronic communication
    • Radio networks
      • Selection and authorisation of mobile satellite services (MSS)
      • Radio Spectrum Policy Programme
      • New rules for the commercialisation of radio equipment
      • Short range devices, RLAN (WiFi), Internet of Things, ultra-wide band (UWB) equipment and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
  • EU data economy & data protection
    • European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
    • Digital Services Act – supervisory fees on providers of very large online platforms and search engines
    • Digital Services Act – conduct of certain proceedings by the Commission
    • Digital Markets Act – conduct of certain proceedings by the Commission
    • Open data and the reuse of public-sector information
    • European data governance
    • Rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)
  • Personal data & privacy rules
    • Use of passenger records to prevent terrorism and serious crime
    • EU–New Zealand agreement on the exchange of personal data
    • Balancing public security with data protection
    • Restrictions of data subjects’ rights — Commission’s internal rules
    • Protecting personal data that is used by police and criminal justice authorities (from 2018)
    • General data protection regulation (GDPR)
    • Right to be forgotten on the Internet
    • EU-US personal data exchanges
    • EU-US agreement on personal data protection
    • EU-US agreement on airline passenger name record data
  • EU copyright & audiovisual rules
    • The Marrakesh Treaty
    • Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
    • Directive implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in the EU
    • Regulation implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in the EU
    • Copyright and related rights
      • Legal protection: databases
      • EU rules on protecting trade secrets
      • Copyright — broadcasters’ online transmissions and retransmissions of television and radio programmes
      • Copyright and related rights: term of protection
      • Copyright and related rights: satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission
      • Copyright and related rights in the information society
      • Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
      • Ensuring technology transfer agreements respect competition rules
      • Computer programs — legal protection
      • Resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art
      • Rental, lending and certain other rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property
      • Rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)
    • EU audiovisual rules
      • Improving the online licensing of music across the EU
      • Enjoying online content without borders
      • Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD)
      • Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances
  • Archived summaries
    • European high-performance computing joint undertaking
    • European initiative on electronic commerce
    • European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
    • World Radiocommunication Conference 2003
    • World Radiocommunications Conference 2000 (WRC-2000)
    • Transferring Personal Data to non-EU countries: Standard Contractual Clauses
    • Turkey – Research and new technologies
    • Unbundled access to the local loop
    • Unlocking the economic potential of government-owned data
    • VAT: special arrangements applicable to services supplied electronically
    • Latvia
    • Legal framework for mobile TV
    • The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)
    • Towards a single market in creative content online
    • Towards an accessible information society
    • Towards optimal use of the digital dividend
    • The Czech Republic
    • The eCall service
    • The EU's new digital single market strategy
    • The .eu top-level domain (until 2022)
    • Stimulating the production of European digital content: the eContent Programme (2001-04)
    • Strategy for a secure information society (2006 communication)
    • Roaming charges within the European Union
    • Sixth Framework Programme (2000-2006): Information Society Technologies
    • Romania
    • Slovakia
    • Strengthening personal data protection
    • Strengthening the internal market for mobile TV
    • The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – Research and new technologies
    • Slovenia
    • The IDABC Programme (2005-2009)
    • Rules of Procedure of the European Data Protection Supervisor
    • The open internet and net neutrality
    • Safer Internet Programme 2005-2008 (Safer Internet Plus)
    • Safer Internet programme 2009-13
    • Standardisation: information technology and telecommunications
    • Telemedicine systems and services
    • Third-generation mobile communications
    • Statistics on the information society
    • Iceland – Research and new technologies
    • ICT and eGovernment: European Action Plan 2011-2015
    • ICT infrastructures for e-science
    • ICT standardisation: modernisation and the way forward
    • In-vehicle emergency call system "eCall" (Second eSafety Communication)
    • Impact of the e-Economy on European enterprises
    • Information security
    • Fight against spam, spyware and malicious software
    • Future networks and the internet
    • Globalisation and the information society: the need for strengthened international coordination
    • Go Digital: helping small and medium-sized enterprises "go digital"
    • Hungary
    • Green Paper on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society
    • Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy
    • i2010: Digital libraries
    • i2010 eGovernment Action Plan
    • i2010: Information Society and the media working towards growth and jobs
    • i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative (third eSafety communication)
    • Internet governance: the next steps
    • Internet of Things
    • Green Paper on the convergence of the telecommunications, media and information technology sectors and the implications for regulation
    • Protection of personal data
    • Online gambling (Green Paper)
    • Online learning: eLearning Programme (2004-06)
    • Protection of video game users
    • Organisation and management of the internet
    • Promoting data protection by privacy-enhancing technologies
    • Measures to counter unsolicited commercial communications ("spam")
    • Media literacy in the digital age
    • Media literacy in the digital environment
    • Protecting children in the digital world
    • Mobile broadband services
    • MODINIS programme: follow-up of eEurope 2005 action plan
    • Poland
    • Next Generation Access Networks (NGA)
    • Next steps in radio spectrum policy
    • Radio and telecommunications terminal equipment
    • Radio frequencies: European Radio Communications Committee
    • Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in Europe: steps towards a policy framework
    • Radio local area networks (Wi-Fi networks)
    • Radio Spectrum Policy Group
    • Radio spectrum policy programme
    • Regulatory framework for electronic communications
    • Relationship between card-holders and card-issuers (II)
    • Malta
    • Management of copyright and related rights in the internal market
    • Management of online rights in musical works
    • Lithuania
    • Markets in telecommunications services and information: competition in the markets in telecommunications terminal equipment
    • Access for rural areas to ICTs
    • Access to electronic communications networks
    • A strategy for research on future and emerging technologies in Europe
    • Action plan for a Safer Internet 1999-2004
    • Broadband Internet access: the territorial divide
    • Broadband: investing in digitally driven growth
    • Building a stronger and more secure digital Europe
    • Bulgaria
    • Affordable telecommunications services - users' rights
    • Ageing well in the Information Society: Action Plan on Information and Communication Technologies and Ageing
    • Challenges for the European Information Society beyond 2005
    • ARTEMIS
    • Authorisation of electronic communications networks and services
    • Connected continent: ambitious reform package for Europe’s telecoms market
    • Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) (2007-2013)
    • eEurope 2002
    • eEurope 2005
    • eEurope - An information society for all
    • Croatia – Research and new technologies
    • eGovernment
    • Electronic interchange of data between administrations: IDA programme
    • Electronic payment: code of conduct
    • Electronic skills for the 21st century: fostering competitiveness, growth and jobs
    • Estonia
    • Cyprus
    • eTen Programme: support for trans-European telecommunications networks
    • ENISA - the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security
    • EU cooperation in criminal matters — personal data protection (until 2018)
    • Digital Agenda for Europe
    • Ensuring citizens’ privacy: the European Data Protection Supervisor
    • e-Health: improving health and healthcare through the use of information and communications technologies
    • eAccessibility
    • Copyright in the Knowledge Economy
    • eCall aims to speed up response from emergency services to car crash victims
    • eSafety: the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for road safety
    • eSignature in the EU
    • eContentplus (2005-2008)