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European Regional Bureau Newsletter: 04 November – 10 November 2017
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<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: Feedback on the first trilogue on the European Electronic Communications Code</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On November 6, MEP Pilar del Castillo Vera (EPP, ES), European Parliament Rapporteur of the European Electronic Communications Code, gave a feedback on the first trialogue meeting between the co-legislators (October 25).</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">MEP Del Castillo Vera said the main objective of the Code was to boost investments in very high capacity networks in order to establish the right environment for 5G deployment.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">She highlighted that the involvement of all European Parliament political groups at the first trilogue (through the participation of shadow rapporteurs) was excellent. Bulgaria, who will hold the next presidency round, is also attending the meetings.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The second trilogue will take place on December 6 and will largely focus on spectrum related issues.</span>                <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society meeting</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society is meeting on November 15 to</span> <a href="http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/CM-4902-2017-INIT/en/pdf"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">discuss</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> the European Electronic Communications Code.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The meeting will examine the presidency text ahead of the second trilogue meeting between the EU co-legislators (European Parliament, Commission and Council of the EU) on the file, scheduled for December 6.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Various issues, such as the duration of spectrum licenses, international calls tariffs and encryption are expected to be part of the discussion.</span>                <p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:10.000000pt">
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<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: First annual review of the US-EU Privacy Shield</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On November 6, an exchange of views was held in the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) with Tiina Astola, European Commission’s Director-General of DG Justice and Consumers (DG JUST), on the first annual</span> <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2017/EN/COM-2017-611-F1-EN-MAIN-PART-1.PDF"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">review</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> of the Privacy Shield, the framework for transatlantic exchanges of personal data for commercial purposes between the EU and the US.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Ms Astola painted an optimistic view of the Privacy Shield's status, stating the system is functioning well, and great effort has been made under the current US presidency.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On the other hand, several Members of the European Parliament criticised the slow pace of transposition of the Privacy Shield by the Trump administration and raised concern over data protection standards for EU citizens. In this regard, Ms Astola said the US insisted that the protection for non-Americans offered by Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28) would not be touched.</span>                <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Spain: Spanish data protection authority fines Google €300,000</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On November 7, the Spanish data protection agency, La Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD),</span> <a href="http://www.agpd.es/portalwebAGPD/revista_prensa/revista_prensa/2017/notas_prensa/news/2017_11_07-ides-idphp.php"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">fined</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> Google €300,000 for collecting information on Wi-Fi access points using its Street View fleet.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The agency’s announcement claims the collection included e-mail addresses and passwords, IP addresses, MAC addresses of routers and devices connected to them, and names of wireless networks (SSID) configured with the name and surnames of users.</span>                <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: ENISA’s Executive Director addresses IoT at the European Parliament</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On November 7, Prof. Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of the EU Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA),</span> <a href="https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/ed-speeches/security-challenges-and-best-practices-in-the-iot-environment/"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">restated</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> the importance of cybersecurity in the EU, at a public hearing held in the European Parliament.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Prof. Dr. Udo Helmbrecht urged the EU to improve its cybersecurity capabilities to avoid an increasing negative impact on the whole society.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">He said that cybersecurity should not only be considered a threat, but instead should be seen as an opportunity to promote a new generation of products and services, with security by design being a key element.</span>                <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Security Commissioner King speech at FT Cybersecurity Summit</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On November 8, European Commissioner for the Security Union, Julian King, delivered a</span> <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2014-2019/king/announcements/commissioner-kings-remarks-ft-cybersecurity-summit-london_en"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">keynote speech</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> at the</span> <a href="https://live.ft.com/Events/2017/FT-Cyber-Security-Summit-Europe"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">FT Cybersecurity Summit</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> in London. The event largely focussed on dangers in cyberspace, decoding cyber risk, and skills gap.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Commissioner King stressed the importance to redefine what is meant by cybersecurity, ensuring it embraces the full range of challenges stemmed from the digital revolution.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">He said both governments and the public sector need to play their part, putting in place national cybersecurity strategies. However, only a closer cooperation with the private sector can bring the change needed to tackle cyber threats effectively, with “a new sense of Corporate Social Responsibility for the digital era needed”.</span>                <p class="list_paragraph" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:10.000000pt;margin-left:32.200000pt" awml:style="List Paragraph">
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On November 8, European Commissioner for the Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality,</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Věra Jourová,</span> <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2014-2019/jourova/announcements/speech-commissioner-jourova-international-association-privacy-professionals-europe-data-protection_en"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">spoke</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)</span> <a href="https://iapp.org/conference/iapp-europe-data-protection-congress/"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Europe Data Protection Congress</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">She highlighted the important role played by data protection practitioners in getting Europe ready for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which would enter into force on May 25, 2018.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">She said both citizens and businesses would have to be well informed about the new set of rules, which must be consistent across the EU. She said guidance was fundamental in the interpretation and the effective implementation of the GDPR.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">She added fragmentation must be avoided and countries in the world needed to be as aligned as possible to facilitate global data flows.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The European Commission will launch an information campaign, focussed on SMEs and the public to raise awareness on the new laws, along with an EU Data Protection Day, scheduled for January 28, 2018.</span>                <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: Digital Commissioner Gabriel answers question on national cybersecurity strategies</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On November 8, European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel,</span> <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/questions/reponses_qe/2017/005890/P8_RE(2017)005890_EN.pdf"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">answered</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> a</span> <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2017-005890+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">parliamentary question</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> from MEP Del Castillo Vera (EPP, ES) on the implementation of national cybersecurity strategies.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Commissioner Gabriel said the Commission’s</span> <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:d829f91d-9859-11e7-b92d-01aa75ed71a1.0001.02/DOC_3&format=PDF"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Communication</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> on “Making the most of Network and Information Systems" (October 4, 2017) encourages Member States to adopt national cybersecurity strategies (NCSS) covering additional sectors (i.e. public administration) and digital services, to those included in the Directive on security of network and information systems (</span> <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/network-and-information-security-nis-directive"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">NIS Directive</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">).</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">She reminded that, as stated in the NIS Directive, Member States are required to have in place as of May 10, 2018 all provisions necessary to comply with the Directive, and these should include national strategies.</span>                <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: Joint meeting of the Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues and the WP on Telecommunications</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The Joint meeting of the Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues and the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society took place on November 9.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The meeting</span> <a href="http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/CM-4857-2017-INIT/en/pdf"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">discussed</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> the proposal for a regulation on the EU Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA) and the information and communication technology cybersecurity certification (Cybersecurity Act). This aims at strengthening the role of ENISA and to set the basis for a future EU cybersecurity certification scheme for the Internet of Things devices.</span>                <p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:10.000000pt">
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<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: Lisbon Web Summit comes to an end</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Connectivity, competition, Artificial intelligence (AI), and cybersecurity were some of the key themes of the</span> <a href="https://websummit.com/"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Web Summit</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> held in Lisbon on 6-9 November.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Margrethe Vestager, EU Commissioner for Competition,</span> <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2014-2019/vestager/announcements/clearing-path-innovation_en"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">told</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> participants that competition “makes innovation work.” She added that big data should not affect competition and “controlling large amounts of data shouldn't become a way to shut rivals out of the market.”</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas</span> <a href="https://www.valitsus.ee/en/news/prime-minister-juri-ratass-speech-web-summit-technology-conference-8-november-2017"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">stressed</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> the importance of AI and self-driving vehicles. During a meeting with Meng Hongwei, President of Interpol, they discussed the compatibility of different information systems in internal security and the need to strengthen cybersecurity in Europe.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Walter Jennings, vice-president of Corporate Communications at Huawei Technologies,</span> <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2017/11/09/lisbon-websummit-promises-and-pitfalls-of-high-tech"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">said</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> in five years we would have full 5G implemented, with the maximum number of connections possible closer to 100 billion, compared to the current 1 billion.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Physicist and thinker Stephen Hawking also appeared on-stage at the Summit, affirming "success in creating effective AI, could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst."</span>                <p style="text-align:justify">
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">As part of its series of Regional Internet Development Dialogues, the Internet Society organised a full day conference on the “Internet of Opportunity: Will the Internet benefit all Europeans?” on 7 November in Brussels</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The event featured panel debates and discussion on the effect of the Internet on employment and innovation, as well as the importance of access to the Internet and the need to ensure that users can trust organisations in the new digital economy.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Keynote remarks were provided by MEP Michal Boni who warned of the harms caused by organisations using data without concern for privacy issues, solely focussed on monetisation. He also raised artificial intelligence as a key issue, asking how humans and AI could cooperate rather than replace each other.</span>                <p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:10.000000pt">
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