A strong signal for European tech competitiveness, and a clear opportunity to deliver a true Single Market.
The European Tech Alliance (EUTA) welcomes the Communication adopted today by the European Commission setting out an ambitious plan to make EU lawmaking simpler, clearer and better enforced. Several elements directly echo EUTA’s longstanding asks, and the plan marks a meaningful step towards a Single Market that European tech can build, deploy and scale across.
EUTA welcomes in particular five elements of the Communication:
- A true Single Market: a clear preference for exhaustive regulations and full harmonisation on Single Market matters, with realistic transposition timelines.
- Push back on gold plating: a coordinated effort to tackle national over regulation.
- Digital in the regulatory deep cleaning: the inclusion of digital among the 12 priority areas of the new Action Plan, supported by a new high level expert group, the Simplification Platform.
- Stricter discipline on lawmaking: Explicit call on the Parliament and the Council to assess the impact of their substantial amendments, a longstanding EUTA ask.
- Faster and more robust enforcement: faster infringement procedures, more dissuasive financial penalties on Member States, the use of AI tools to support compliance checks, and 11 Single Market focus areas for proactive enforcement.
The following can be attributed to EUTA’s Secretary General, Victoria de Posson
“European tech companies do not need 27 different answers to the same legal question. They need one law, one rulebook, one interpretation. Today’s plan from the Commission marks a clear shift in that direction, and we welcome it warmly.”
“We now look to the Parliament and the Council to match this ambition, by applying the same principles of simplicity, proportionality and evidence in their own work.”
EUTA looks forward to working closely with the Commission, the European Parliament and Member States to turn this plan into tangible results for European tech, for European users and for the competitiveness of the European Union as a whole.
About the European Tech Alliance
EUTA represents leading European tech companies that provide innovative products and services to more than one billion users. Our 38 EUTA member companies from 16 European countries are popular and have earned the trust of consumers. As companies born and bred in Europe, for whom the EU is a crucial market, we have a deep commitment to European citizens and values.
With the right conditions, our companies can strengthen Europe’s resilience and technological autonomy, protect and empower users online, and promote Europe’s values of transparency, rule of law and innovation to the rest of the world.
The EUTA calls for boosting Europe’s tech competitiveness by having an ambitious EU tech strategy to overcome growth obstacles, making a political commitment to clear, targeted and risk-based rules, and enforcing rules consistently to match the globalised market we are in.
For media inquiries, please contact:Victoria de Posson, EUTA Secretary General
E-mail: victoria@eutechalliance.eu
E-mail: info@eutechalliance.eu
Phone: +32 476 25 08 16
www.eutechalliance.eu
