IEU Monitoring: EU DIGITAL AGENDA Telegram - 26 Jan

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# DSM

  • Dutch Presidency DSM priorities discussed in committee
  • European Internet Forum on the Role of Online Platforms

# CYBERSECURITY

  • ENISA Report on Information Sharing and Common Taxonomies between CSIRTs and Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Second day of the informal JHA Council meeting to focus on cybercrime
  • EU Video: Informal meeting of the Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs, Amsterdam (25-26/01/2016)

# DATA PROTECTION

  • EDPS opens Reference Library
  • EU Council: St 5484 2016 Init Report "Survey 2015 on measuring compliance with data protection rules in EU institutions"
  • European Data Coalition: Letter to Heads of Government and Data Protection Authorities on Safe Harbour
  • FNF-Hintergrund: USA - Zwischen Privatsphäre und Sicherheit

# AVMSD

  • ERGA  published two reports on the protection of minors and on the scope of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD)
  • The European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services - ERGA
  • ERGA Report on the Protection of Minors in a Converged Environment
  • ERGA report on material jurisdiction in a converged environment
  • ERGA work programme for 2016 - Tools for European Regulators in a converging media-landscape

# VIRTUAL CURRENCIES

  • EP Committee hearing: Virtual currencies: what are the risks and benefits?

# INTERNET GOVERNANCE

  • Remarks on Cuba and the Internet: Choices, Challenges, and Opportunities - Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy

# M-HEALTH

  • DIGITALEUROPE selected as member of European Commission mHealth Working Group

# EDRS

  • Start des ersten EDRS-Laserknotens für Europas satellitengestützte Datenautobahn

# BROADBAND

  • EDRi: Civil society and telecom industry urge EU policy makers to safeguard broadband competition
  • UK Ofcom: Clarity for businesses baffled by broadband speeds

# MEDIA FREEDOM

  • Media freedom under threat in Kazakhstan, say S&Ds
  • # ITU
  • ITU: Harnessing ICTs to save lives: emergency telecommunications in disaster management

# GERMAN DIGITAL AGENDA

  • Staatssekretär Machnig: Digitalisierung treibt umfassenden Strukturwandel im Autoverkehr voran
  • Digitale Gesellschaft: WLAN-Störerhaft – die Rechts-Treueerklärung muss weg

# EU REGISTERS

# EU PARLIAMENT

  • Answer - Internet for all in Europe - E-013794/2015
  • Answer - High costs of data traffic with Andorra - E-013999/2015
  • Answer - Digital single market tax regime - E-013931/2015
  • Answer - Fraudulent overbilling of mobile phone users for use of four- and five-digit numbers - E-013372/2015
  • Answer - ICC Prosecutor's opinion highlighting the violation of the privacy of EU citizens by US companies - E-013478/2015
  • Answer - VP/HR - Possibility of controlling drones through the Galileo and Copernicus systems - E-013267/2015
  • Answer - Problems for the Galileo global navigation satellite system - E-012706/2015
  • Subject files - Working Group on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence - Committee on Legal Affairs

# EU COUNCIL

  • St 5513 2016 Init COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 as regards pilot training, testing and periodic checking for performance-based navigation
  • St 5513 2016 Add 1 ANNEX to COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No.../... of XXX amending COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1178/2011 as regards pilot training, testing and periodic checking for performance-based navigation
  • St 5514 2016 Init COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 as regards pilot training, testing and periodic checking for performance-based navigation
  • St 5430 2016 Add 1 Descriptions of Data Fields - Annexes


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