Digital Single Market: Digitising Industry (Communication)

Philipp Eckhardt

The European Commission wants to speed up the digitisation of European industry and calls, inter alia, for an EU-wide network of "Digital Innovation Hubs". These will help small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular, to develop digital innovations more easily. In cep's view, public funds should not be channelled into such "Hubs".

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The free flow of data within the EU can lead to significant cost reductions. The removal of localisation requirements is, in cep's view, therefore appropriate. Uniform EU-wide safety and liability rules for new digital technologies allow for greater legal and planning certainty and should therefore be introduced as early as possible.

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Digital Single Market: Digitising Industry COM(2016) 180 (publ. 07.25.2016)	PDF	113 KB	Download