IEU Monitoring: EU DIGITAL Telegram - 15 March 2016

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# TSM

  • EU Commission: Public consultation on the termination rates recommendation
  • Circular economy package, telecoms framework review: committee debates
  • EBU: Professor Chris Marsden advocates the over-arching need to ensure greater neutrality of intermediaries
  • UK Ofcom: A cross-country econometric analysis of the effect of disruptive firms on mobile pricing
  • FT-ETNO Summit 2016 - Reform and Progress: The role of telecoms in a digitising world

# DSM

  • Europe's Digital Prospects: Masters of Digital or Mastered by Digital? – Huawei

# COPYRIGHT

  • EBU PUBLISHES COPYRIGHT HANDBOOK FOR MEMBERS

# DATA PROTECTION

  • EP background material on EU-US privacy shield
  • Conference - technology and digital policy - Geneva Internet Platform

# PORTABILITY

  • Rapporteur sur le dossier portabilité au Parlement européen - Jean-Marie Cavada

# MEDIA LANDSCAPE

  • Public consultation on Special Mechanism for Media Freedom in the Arab World launched - Med Media
  • An Alternative Media Landscape for Europe 07/04/2016 - GUE/NGL

# DAB+

  • Europäische Digitalradio Allianz gegründet

# E-HEALTH

  • DIGITALEUROPE responds to Commission EU-US eHealth Consultation

# SPECTRUM

  • UK Parliament: Space policy, spectrum regulation and use of satellite data examined

# EU REGISTERS

# EURLEX

  • CELEX:32016D0367: Council Decision (EU) 2016/367 of 4 March 2016 on the conclusion of the Cooperation Agreement on Satellite Navigation between the European Union and its Member States and the Kingdom of Norway

# EU PARLIAMENT

  • Answer - Commission guidelines on the Internet of Things (IoT) - E-015338/2015
  • Answer - Internet access is a human right - E-014844/2015
  • Answer - Discrimination against non-national consumers making online travel bookings - P-015767/2015

# EU COUNCIL

  • St 5175 2016 Rev 1 Renewed Information Management Strategy (IMS) - draft 5th Action List
  • St 6150 2016 Cor 1 a) Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content (First reading) b) Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain aspects concerning contracts for the online and other distance sales of goods (First reading) - Progress report
  • St 6896 2016 Init Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on Ensuring the Cross-Border Portability of Online Content Services in the Internal Market - Presidency Compromise Proposal

# EU COMITOLOGY

  • RSC Radio Spectrum Committee - Decision n° 676/2002/EC

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