The European Parliament has adopted a number of recommendations on the the EU's Digital Single Market strategy. The EP said in a statement that it plans to "co-legislate" with the European Commission on the DSM, which was first unveiled last year by the new EC. Most of the recommendations adopted by MEPs in a large majority (551 for, 88 against, 39 abstentions) are in line with the proposals already made the EC, such as putting an end to geo-blocking in order to increase access to digital services across EU countries and ensuring equivalent consumer protection for digital services whether purchased on- or offline.
Other recommendations include improving cross-border parcel delivery in order to stimulate international e-commerce and removing barriers for small businesses to adopt new ICT such as big data, cloud computing and the IoT. MEPs also called for a review of the ePrivacy directive in order to ensure it's consistent with the new EU data protection rules. This is something long called for by telecom operators, who have complained they are subject to double regulation under both the ePrivacy directive and the more general data protection rules.
MEPs also want the EC to do more to address the emerging 'sharing economy' of services such as AirBnB and Uber, in order to ensure consistent consumer protection across EU countries amid diverging national policies to date. Other topics addressed in the resolution include copyright, telecoms, VAT rules, audiovisual media, e-skills, e-government, and employment rights. The parliament's resolution will feed into the DSM legislative proposals expected from the EC before the end of the year.
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Quelle/Source: telecompaper, 19.01.2016
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