EURIM Digital Single Market Working Group

Introduction, Objectives & Strategy

Malcolm Harbour MEP chaired a meeting of members of the European Internet Foundation and of the Information Society Alliance - EURIM on Monday 23rd January at the House of Lords to identify their concerns, priorities and willingness to work together on the many proposals and directives intended to foster a globally competitive Digital Single Market.

The meeting agreed three working groups with Malcolm Harbour as the political chairman:

1. Data Protection
This subgroup will report to the EURIM Information Governance Group and will meet in London and Brussels.

2. Cross-border payments issues
Problems in these areas are said to be the main obstacle to intra-EU cross-border trade and there are a variety of overlapping initiatives in this area of interest to Online Retailers, Telcos, ISPs, Banking and Finance.

The Group is in its planning stage and more information will be available shortly.

3. IPR/copyright
Issues to do with legal frameworks, the e-Commerce directive, consumer rights and common sales laws come to a head in the context of the enforcement of IPR - because digital content is most likely to be traded on-line. The Commission plans to propose a revised directive by the end of 2012 based on the Communication ‘Putting in place a seamless, integrated Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)’ and the review of Directive 2001/29/EC “on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society” and Directive 2004/48/EC “on the enforcement of intellectual property rights”.

The Group is in its planning stage and more information will be available shortly.

Work Programme for 2012 and Forthcoming Meetings

Recent Meetings

Date	Subject	Papers
26 Nov 12	Digital Single Market Meeting with Malcolm Harbour MEP	Summary Report  IMCO Roadmap to Digital Market MoJ Data Protection Regulation Impact Assessment
16 Oct 12	Data Protection Subgroup Meeting	Summary Report
03 Sep 12	Digital Single Market Meeting	Summary Report
09 Jul 12	Meeting to review the EU Regulation "on electronic identification and trusted services for electronic transactions in the internal market"	Summary Report  Comments on eID proposal from Piotr Cofta
11 Jun 12	Inaugural Meeting of the Cross-Border Transactions Subgroup - cutting the cost of pan-EU payments and making a reality of the Single Market	Summary Report
28 May 12	Digital Single Market Meeting
01 May 12	Data Protection Subgroup Meeting	Summary Report
22 Mar 12	Inaugural meeting of the EURIM subgroup on Data Protection	Summary Report
23 Jan 12	Driving the Digital Single Market	Invitation Meeting Papers Meeting Report

Group Outputs (Papers & Briefings)

Date	Type of Output	Title
Aug 12	Consultation Response	Submission to the House of Commons Justice Select Committee’s Call for Evidence on the proposals to reform EU data protection laws

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