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