How to ensure coherence in EU digital regulation?
The EU’s digital rulebook has expanded rapidly in recent years, pursuing multiple objectives, from competition and innovation to consumer protection, cybersecurity, and data protection. While each...
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How to ensure coherence in EU digital regulation?
The EU’s digital rulebook has expanded rapidly in recent years, pursuing multiple objectives, from competition and innovation to consumer protection, cybersecurity, and data protection. While each objective is legitimate, together they often create tensions that are not always addressed well during the policy cycle. This contributes to legal uncertainty, regulatory complexity, and inconsistent outcomes, ultimately affecting firms’ ability to innovate and invest in Europe.
Challenges
In practice, these trade-offs are frequently left unresolved at the legislative stage and are instead managed by public authorities during implementation and enforcement.
At the substantive level, public authorities may struggle because different rules often pursue competing objectives without clearly explaining how they should be balanced. This leaves firms uncertain about how to comply and how regulators will interpret trade-offs, for example,
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