Publications
Digital economy
Proposal for a revised Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS 2 Directive) – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
The annual cost of cybercrime is growing in 2020 this was estimatedat EUR 5.5 trillion, the largest transfer of economic wealth in history.
The current NIS Directive has increased cyb...
Digital economy
The Digital Services Act (DSA) – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
We support the goals of the DSA to ensure a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment.
The DSA should focus on intermediaries disseminating public information to ensure a...
Digital economy
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
We agree with the intentions of the DMA to harmonise rules to ensure contestable and fair markets in the digital space where gatekeepers are present.
No contradiction between the DMA...
EU single market
The Sustainable and Smart Mobility (SSM) strategy – BusinessEurope comments
BusinessEurope supports the overall goals and aims of the strategy: to master the twin green and digital transitions aiming at significantly reducing CO2 and pollutant emissions; improving efficiencie...
Digital economy
The Data Governance Act (DGA) – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
We support the creation of a European model that promotes data sharing and re-use within and across key sectors. This should clarify how sharing and re-use of data can take place and h...
EU single market
Revision of the General Product Safety Directive – BusinessEurope comments
Key messages
The General Product Safety Directive (GPSD) largely serves the purpose of a general "safety net" and should maintain its current general safety requirements and accompanying criteria a...
EU single market
The New Legislative Framework (NLF) evaluation: provisional comments
Key messages
BusinessEurope considers the NLF as a great success and a key instrument of a functioning Single Market, broadly fit for purpose and able to address new aspects of a digital environmen...
Data protection
Schrems II – Impact survey report
A joint report by:
BUSINESSEUROPE
DIGITALEUROPE
ERT - European Round Table for Industry
ACEA - European Automobile Manufacturers Association...
Digital economy
The digital services package – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
The eCommerce Directive has greatly contributed to the growth of Europe’s economy, yet the online landscape in which it was adopted has greatly changed. Shaping a framework that t...
EU single market
EU single market
EU Competitiveness Council policy debate on 18 September 2020: Single Market as enabler of successful recovery and resilience of the EU economy – Letter from Markus J. Beyrer to Peter Altmaier
Annex - Examples of Single Market barriers for businesses...
EU single market
Examples of Single Market barriers for businesses 2020
On 10 March 2020 the European Commission published its report "Identifying and addressing barriers to the Single Market", as part of the spring Single Market package. BusinessEurope responded by its p...
Data protection
A cloud of uncertainty hangs over international data transfers
Yesterday, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the Privacy Shield, an international personal data transfer mechanism between the EU-US, while ruling on the landmark "Schrems...
Digital economy
AI: A European approach to excellence and trust
KEY MESSAGES
The aim of achieving trust in AI through policy needs to be achieved with the goal of enabling its excellence in Europe in mind.
Europe needs to support its bid for AI excellence thro...
EU single market
EU transport negotiations end with over-complex compromise
Single Market needs legal certainty, uniform application, enforcement
Yesterday, proposals on EU road transport legislation were adopted in the European Parliament after a long and bumpy ro...