EU digital policy, sourced and tracked.

- 28th Regime for Innovative Companies (legislative, Articles 50 and 114 TFEU, Q1 2026) - European Innovation Act (legislative, Articles 114, 173 and 182 TFEU, Q1 2026) - Public Procurement Act (legislative, Article 114 TFEU, Q2 2026) - Advanced Materials Act (legislative, Articles 114 and 173 TFEU, Q4 2026) - Cloud and AI Development Act (legislative, Article 114 TFEU) - Chips Act (legislative, Articles 114 and 173 TFEU) (Q1 2026) - Critical Raw Materials Centre (legislative, Article 114 TFEU, Q2 2026) - European Research Area Act (legislative, Article 182 TFEU, Q3 2026) - European Biotech Act II (legislative, Article 114 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Quantum Act (legislative, Articles 173, 180 and 184 TFEU, Q2 2026) - Circular Economy Act (legislative, Article 114 TFEU, Q3 2026) - European Product Act: - Update of the new legislative framework of product rules (legislative, Article 114 TFEU, Q3 2026). - Update of rules on the market surveillance and compliance of products (legislative, Articles 33 and 114 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Update of rules on standardisation (legislative, Article 114 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Electrification action plan, including heating and cooling (non-legislative, Q1 2026) - Update of the governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action including the phase-out of fossil fuels subsidies (legislative, Articles 192 and 194 TFEU, Q4 2026 - Energy Union package for the decade ahead: - Development of the CO2 transportation infrastructure and markets (legislative, Article 194 TFEU, Q3 2026). - Setting-up of the energy efficiency framework (legislative, Article 194 TFEU, Q3 2026). - Setting-up of the renewable energy framework (legislative, Article 194 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Update of rules on shareholder rights (legislative, Articles 50 and 114 TFEU, Q4 2026) - Update of the European venture capital funds Regulation (legislative, Article 114 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Update of antitrust procedural rules (legislative, Article 103 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Communication on better regulation (non-legislative, Q2 2026) - European Space Shield – action plan (non-legislative, Q2 2026) - Strengthening Frontex (legislative, Articles 77 and 79 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Digitalisation of the return process (legislative, Article 79 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Strengthening Europol (legislative, Article 88 TFEU, Q2 2026) - Creation of a European critical communication system (legislative, Article 87 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Quality Jobs Act (legislative, Article 153 TFEU, Q4 2026) - - European school alliances and Basic Skills Support Scheme (non-legislative, Q3 2026) - - 2030 Roadmap on the future of digital education and skills (non-legislative, Q3 2026) - Fair labour mobility package: - Proposal for a European Social Security Pass (legislative, Article 48 TFEU, Q3 2026). - Strengthen the European Labour Authority (legislative, Articles 46 and 48 TFEU, Q3 2026). - Skills portability initiative (legislative, Articles 46, 53 and 62 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Intergenerational fairness strategy (non-legislative, Q1 2026) - Digital Fairness Act (legislative, Article 114 TFEU, Q4 2026) - Strengthening Eurojust (legislative, Article 85 TFEU, Q2 2026) - Update of rules on audiovisual media services (legislative, Articles 53 and 62 TFEU, Q3 2026) - Action plan against cyberbullying (non-legislative, Q1 2026)

◆2025-10-21

- Start-up and Scale-up Strategy [Q2 2025] - 28th regime [Q4 2025 – Q1 2026] - European Innovation Act [Q4 2025 – Q1 2026] - European Research Area Act [2026] - AI Factories Initiative [Q1 2025], Apply AI, AI in Science, and Data Union Strategies [Q3 2025] - EU Cloud and AI Development Act [Q4 2025 – Q1 2026] - EU Quantum Strategy [Q2 2025] and a Quantum Act [Q4 2025] - European Biotech Act and Bioeconomy Strategy [2025-2026] - Life Sciences Strategy [Q2 2025] - Advanced Materials Act [2026] - Space Act [Q2 2025] - Review of the Horizontal Merger Control Guidelines - Digital Networks Act [Q4 2025] - Clean Industrial Deal and an Action Plan on Affordable Energy [Q1 2025] - Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act [Q4 2025] - Electrification Action Plan and European Grids Package [Q1 2026] - New State Aid Framework [Q2 2025] - Steel and metals action plan [2025] - Chemicals industry package [Q4 2025] - Strategic dialogue on the future of the European automotive industry and Industrial Action Plan [Q1 2025]. - Sustainable Transport Investment Plan [Q3 2025] - European Port Strategy and Industrial Maritime Strategy [2025] - High Speed Rail Plan [2025] - Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism Review [2025] - Circular Economy Act [Q4 2026] - Vision for Agriculture and Food [Q1 2025] - Oceans Pact [Q2 2025] - Amendment of the Climate Law [2025] - Conclude and implement ambitious trade agreements, Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships - Trans-Mediterranean Energy and Clean Tech Cooperation initiative [Q4 2025] - Joint purchasing platform for Critical Raw Minerals [Q2-3 2025] - Revision of directives on Public Procurement [2026] - White Paper on the Future of European Defence [Q1 2025] - Preparedness Union Strategy [Q1 2025] - Internal Security Strategy [Q1 2025] - Critical Medicines Act [Q1 2025] - European Climate Adaptation Plan [2026] - Water Resilience Strategy [Q2 2025] - Omnibus simplification and definition of small mid-caps [26/2/2025] - European Business Wallet [2025] - Single Market Strategy [Q2 2025] - Revision of the Standardisation Regulation [2026] - Savings and Investments Union [Q1 2025] - Next MFF, including Competitiveness Fund and a Competitiveness Coordination Tool [2025] - Union of Skills [Q1 2025] - Quality jobs roadmap [Q4 2025] - Skills Portability Initiative [2026]

◆2025-01-29

- Adopt simplification omnibus packages to reduce unnecessary burden to safeguard effective implementation of policy objectives such as the Digital Omnibus aimed at streamlining and simplifying certain elements of the EU digital acquis and the Omnibus to ease compliance with Extended Producer Responsibility obligations (ongoing) - Competitiveness Checks during the impact assessment phase to ensure Single Market consistency and further innovation (ongoing) - Review of national and European agencies in the field of the Single Market with a view to effective application of the law (Q1 2026) - Revise the Public Procurement framework to centralise and streamline its fragmented and complex provisions, and to mainstream the use of sustainability, resilience, social and, in certain technologies and strategic sectors, European preference criteria in EU public procurement while ensuring competitive tenders (2026) - In coordination with the revision of the Public Procurement framework, revise the Directive on defence and sensitive security procurements19 to simplify and harmonise rules and procedures for defence procurements and to take into account a possible European preference (2026) - Call a first meeting of the high-level Single Market Sherpas (Q4 2025) - Organise a first SMET annual high-level political meeting (Q4 2025) - Propose a Single Market Barriers Prevention Act (Q3 2027, if necessary, based on the assessment of the functioning of existing preventive tools) - Establish common rules to facilitate the digital setup of businesses and their operations across the Single Market (Legislative proposal on ‘28th regime’ - Q1 2026) - Revise the Commission Recommendation on business transfers26 (Q4 2025) - Explore EU legislation to address barriers to the mobility of workers. - Make the procedures for the recognition of professional qualifications faster and more efficient through the greater use of digital tools (Q4 2026) - Facilitate the recognition of professional qualifications by extending automatic recognition schemes, for instance via Common Training Frameworks (Q4 2026) - Explore EU legislation to establish common rules for the recognition and validation of qualifications and skills of third country nationals (Q4 2026) - Allow the Commission to establish common specifications when needed (Omnibus proposal adopted together with the Strategy) - Review the Standardisation Regulation (Legislative proposal - Q2 2026) - Harmonise labelling rules via sectoral legislation and facilitate rollout of digital - labelling solutions via the Digital Product Passport (DPP) (progressive introduction of DPP, including possible inclusion via the New Legislative Framework review in Q2 2026) - Remove unjustified authorised representative requirements from EPR schemes and reduce reporting obligations, including by limiting them to an annual frequency (Omnibus proposal Q4 2025) - Address the fragmentation created by heterogenous national EPR schemes through further harmonisation, simplification and digitalisation, including through a digital one- stop shop for information, registration and reporting (as part of the legislative proposal for a Circular Economy Act Q4 2026) - Reform end-of-waste and by-product criteria and provide a more harmonised, leaner framework in the Single Market for reaching end-of-waste and by-product status. Ease the adoption of EU-wide end-of-waste criteria and enable the adoption of such criteria for priority waste feedstocks. Facilitate cross-border shipments of waste feedstocks for recycling (as part of the legislative proposal for a Circular Economy Act - Q4 2026). - Take effective action to increase product compliance by tapping into synergies with capacities of the EU and national customs and market surveillance authorities and potentially establishing an EU Market Surveillance Authority (as of Q3 2025) - Modernise product legislation framework to harness digitalisation, promote circularity and strengthen safeguards (Review of the New Legislative Framework – possible legislative proposal Q2 2026) - Launch an initiative to facilitate the provision of pan-EU services by providers authorised or certified in one Member State on the basis of EU law, potentially including the harmonisation of such authorisation and certification schemes (Q2 2026) - Develop legal guidance and recommendations to Member States to provide clarity on the right to provide services cross-border on a temporary basis (Q2 2026) - Continue supporting the co-legislators to conclude negotiations on: - the revision of Regulations (EC) Nos 883/2004 and 987/2009 on social security coordination; - the proposal for a public interface for the declaration of posting of workers (COM 2024/531). - Launch a Fair Labour Mobility Package (2026), including – inter alia: - Following up to the ongoing pilot activities, proposal of a European Social Security Pass (ESSPASS) - Proposal for strengthening of the European Labour Authority (ELA) including reviewing its mandate - Consider measures to make it easier to temporarily provide services cross- border, while protecting workers’ rights - Develop tools to act against unjustified Territorial Supply Constraints to cover situations beyond those captured by competition law, such as unilateral practices of large manufacturers (Proposal - Q4 2026) - Propose a Construction Services Act to lower barriers to cross-border market access for construction and installation services (Q4 2026) - Work with Member States to simplify permitting and planning procedures to increase the supply of housing in the context of the European Affordable Housing Plan and the European Strategy for Housing Construction (Q1 2026) - Launch initiative to facilitate the cross-border provision of industry-related services such as installation, maintenance and repair services (Q4 2025) - Issue guidance and recommendations to Member States to free regulated business services from unnecessary regulation hindering investment and trade (Q1 2026) - Develop guidance to Member States on the proportionality of their retail regulation (Q4 2026) - Propose a new EU Delivery Act, to replace the Postal Services Directive and Cross-border Parcels Regulation (legislative proposal Q4 2026) - Propose a Digital Networks Act to simplify the legal framework and foster the completion of a Single Market for electronic communications (Q4 2025) - Launch initiative for single digital booking and ticketing for rail (Q4 2025) - Launch initiative for paperless mobility for passengers and goods (Q4 2026) - Launch initiative on cross-border car rentals (Q3 2025) - Ensure harmonised implementation and enforcement of the existing horizontal legal framework (EU Services Directive57) (ongoing) - Provide an SME ID tool based on self-declaration available in all EU languages to facilitate proof of SME status, where appropriate (together with the Single Market Strategy) - Reinforce the Network of SME Envoys, including to encourage the voluntary adoption of measures encouraging SME cross-border trade and contribute to the administrative burden reduction agenda (Q3 2025) - Publish best practice examples of SME-friendly provisions that can be systematically considered for inclusion in draft legislative acts and negotiations (Q3 2025) - Adopt a definition of small mid-caps and an SMC omnibus (together with the Single Market Strategy) - Extend the existing SME fund, implemented by the EUIPO, for 2026 and possibly 2027 (Q4 2025) - Adopt a Commission Recommendation for a ‘Voluntary SME’ standard (VSME) to manage sustainability requests to SMEs stemming from their value chain and financial partners (Q3 2025) - Develop a voluntary streamlined approach to help SMEs demonstrate their sustainability efforts and improve their access to sustainable finance, including by assessing the need to amend the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act to allow financial institutions to better reflect their financing activities of those SMEs (Q1 2026 / Q2 2026)

◆2025-05-21