Our digital policy ambition for the 2024-2029 legislature - a BusinessEurope position paper

Key messages

A 10-year period of intense horizontal regulation in the digital technology sphere is closing in. The European Union has become by far the most prominent writer of the digital technology playbook. In the 2024-2029 legislature BusinessEurope looks forward to:

• coherent implementation and harmonised interpretation of the updated regulatory framework, including the delegated powers.
• reduction of bureaucracy and time-to-market for products and services; rules made for physical goods should not impede digitalisation.
• achieving the Digital Decade targets and solidifying the EU’s competitiveness on the world stage beyond being the rule-maker.
• maximising the impact of the financial resources (both public and private) envisaged for the digital transition, while supporting free and fair competition in the internal market.
• evidence that the EU’s playbook delivers the space to test, launch, and scale innovative products and services across the European Single Market and to compete internationally.
• prioritising awareness, digital skills and literacy for citizens and businesses.
• targeted regulatory intervention only when genuine market failures are identified.

BusinessEurope strongly believes that the suggested actions in the following pages will help achieve the EU’s digital transition.