Our expertise
Osborne Clarke's experts across Europe have wide experience of how the Commission will approach the many aspects of its DSM initiative, including:
Breaking down borders to cross-border commerce: The Commission is determined to break down a number of obstacles it perceives to be preventing cross-border e-commerce, looking in particular at establishing a common set of rules for digital purchases across Europe, at consumer protection and at increasing the availability of affordable cross-border parcel delivery.
- GDPR: Preventing "unjustified" geo-blocking is a Commission priority, as is "modernising" European copyright laws and creating a new media framework to recognise that consumers increasingly access content via the internet and mobile devices.
- Privacy shield: The Commission is proposing an ambitious overhaul of the current telecoms regulatory framework. It is also going to scrutinise the role of online platforms and what it sees as those platforms' ability to dominate multiple sectors.
- Security: From the proposed Network and Information Security Directive to the draft European General Data Protection Regulation and a review of the e-Privacy Directive, the Commission is clearly indicating that laws on data protection, including marketing and security, are going to be significantly changing in the future.
- Marketing: The Commission identifies a need for action in "ownership and access to data, in big data and analytics, in cloud services and science" and to ensure common standards to allow the seamless flow of data, whether in transport, healthcare, mobile payments or the Internet of Things.
