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