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