Digital single market
The Digital Single Market ( English Digital Single Market ) is a planned Economic Area between the Member States of the European Union , which should be mainly focused on the economic sectors digital and telecommunications. It represents a program of the Digital Agenda for Europe on the European single market within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy (EU 2020).
Within the European Commission, this is the responsibility of the Vice President and EU Commissioner for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip , who at the beginning of 2017 was also temporarily responsible for the digital economy and society .
Goal and benefit
The main goal of the EU's digital single market is for the European economy in the digital sector to catch up with the highly advanced economies of the USA, Japan and South Korea in this sector. In order to achieve this goal, better access to digital goods and services, better framework conditions for digital networks and services, greater digitization of the economy and greater expansion of digital networks are to be created.
By eliminating the currently 28 individual markets in the EU and replacing them with a large internal market, 3.8 million new jobs and an increase in EU economic output of 415 billion euros should be achieved.
Planned measures
In order to achieve a digital single market in the EU, the EU Commission is planning a large number of measures.
- Simplifying cross-border parcel trading
- Consumer and contract regulations are to be harmonized within the EU, as currently only 15% of online buyers order across borders
- Review of the Satellite and Cable Directive ( 93/83 / EEC)
- Abolition of geoblocking
- Modernization of Copyright
- Simplification of VAT regulations
- Telecommunication regulations tailored to your needs
- Digitization of industry
- common European standards
Citizen participation
The EU Commission actively involves the citizens of the European Union in the legislative process by allowing them to submit suggestions for improvement directly on specially created forums on the Internet.
development
The European Commission laid the paper on May 6, 2015 Strategy for a digital single market for Europe (2015) 192 COM () as a further development of the Digital Agenda for Europe (COM (2010) 245) before. These measures are to be implemented by 2016. [obsolete] .
Concrete actions
On December 9, 2015, EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Günther Oettinger presented an EU regulation, according to which consumers in the EU should be able to use streaming services in other EU countries. Up to now, these services could usually only be accessed in the user's home country; the planned regulation is intended to enable free access in all EU countries.
Web links
- Digital Single Market - European Commission website
- Digital Single Market Strategy: Mid Term Review - Overview and Documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ Digital single market. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: EU Municipal Council Information. Regional Association Pongau, September 2015, archived from the original on March 11, 2016 ; accessed on June 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Digital single market. ec.europa.eu. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
- ↑ Strategy for a digital single market for Europe. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. COM (2015) 192 final {SWD (2015) 100 final}; not published in the Official Journal (German version, on EUR-Lex).
- ↑ a b Digital Single Market / Digital Agenda for Europe (overview). ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Federal Chancellery, bka.gv.at, accessed February 4, 2016.
- ↑ Digital plans of the EU Commission: A little problem now, the chunks later , Spiegel online, December 9, 2015
