EU DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET POLICY COMMITMENTS 2014-2019

EU Digital Single Market Policy Commitments 2014-2019

• Tackle fragmentation, technical standards, interoperability and red tape to ensure that consumers have access to cross-border online content within a real digital single market
• Reforming data protection rules
• Strengthen Europe’s capacity to respond to cyber threats, including swift adoption of the proposed Directive on network and information security
• Develop a proposal to reform copyright, taking into account new technologies, new uses and new market conditions, supporting innovation, fair remuneration for creators and better consumer choice beyond national borders
• Abolish roaming charges for normal phone use and to enshrine net neutrality in legislation
• Work to abolish barriers to cross-border e-commerce, ensure adequate levels of data protection within the online marketplace, and boost trust in the digital economy
• Set up an EU-wide online dispute resolution platform by 2016
• Identify solutions to enable research institutes and universities to deal with text- and data-mining
• Implement digital government and public e-services in the Commission by introducing e-invoices and e-procurement by 2015 and e-signature by the end of the mandate