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European Regional Bureau Newsletter: 27 January 2017 – 2 February 2018
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<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: Chair says 5G is BEREC’s top priority for this year</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On January 31, at the</span> <a href="https://etno.eu/events/2018/695"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">ETNO-MLex Regulatory Summit 2018</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">, Johannes Gung, Chair of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), outlined that the top priority for the agency this year is 5G.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Mr Gung</span> <a href="http://berec.europa.eu/eng/news_and_publications/whats_new/4758-5g-is-our-top-priority-this-year-says-berec-chair-at-the-etno-mlex-regulatory-summit-2018"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">stated</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> BEREC had much work to do, including eliminating “hurdles to fast 5G deployment and [ensuring that] existing practices are adequate for 5G”.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">He also confirmed BEREC has to contribute to the ongoing discussions on the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC), providing technical advice if requested. BEREC will intervene if it considers the negotiations are going in the wrong direction, he added.</span> <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: WP 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</span> <a href="http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/CM-1374-2018-INIT/en/pdf"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">meeting</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> on February 8 to examine the latest Presidency text on the EECC.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The EECC is currently being discussed by the co-legislators and the European Commission in trilogue meetings. The latest one, which was the first under the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, took place on February 1.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The discussion largely focused on spectrum-related issues, with no conclusive agreement being reached in the end. The most debated topics remain the peer-review system and the renewal and duration of spectrum licenses.</span> <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">DE: Germany to boost investment in fast data networks</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The future German government coalition aims to invest up to €12 billion in gigabit-speed fixed-line data networks over the next four years.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">An agreement paper seen by</span> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-politics-digital/german-coalition-agreement-calls-for-10-12-billion-euros-investment-in-fast-data-networks-idUSKBN1FM152"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Reuters</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> highlights the importance of 5G connectivity and states that Germany will be “the first country in Europe with a 5G network”.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The Social Democrats and the Christian Democratic Party have started talks on digital policies on January 30 and plan to finish negotiations on all issues by Sunday, February 4.</span> <p class="list_paragraph" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:10.000000pt;margin-left:46.350000pt" awml:style="List Paragraph">
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<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: EP Committee discusses Privacy Shield and GDPR implementation</span>
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<span class="list_paragraph" style="background:#ffffff"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On January 29, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, Chairwoman of the Article 29 Working Party, was invited by the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to give a presentation on the implementation of the EU-US Privacy Shield and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The slow implementation process of the GDPR was criticised by those present at the discussion.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On the EU-US Privacy Shield, Ms Falque-Pierrotin called on the US authorities to meet the standards set by the EU Data Protection Supervisor. In particular, she stressed the need to quickly create the role of an ombudsman.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Should the US Authorities fail to deliver on their commitments, the European Supervisory Authorities envisage lodging a formal complaint as early as May 2018.</span> <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: Justice Commissioner Jourová on EU data protection and the GDPR</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">During a</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/957916311958511616"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> and Facebook</span> <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I150215&lg=INT&sublg=none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">live chat</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> on January 29, European Justice Commissioner Věra Jourová said individuals need to decide by themselves whether they want their “identity (e.g. data) to be sold or not.” The GDPR will set higher standards and will require cooperation from each individual, she added.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Regarding enforcement and sanctions under the GDPR, she reminded that fines could go up to 4% of companies’ annual turnover. But, she added, those “ceilings would be used only in grave breaches of people’s protection of private data”.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Commissioner Jourová also said the “right to be forgotten” would be strengthened to introduce and enforce new rights for citizens.</span> <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: First cyber-exercise to boost CSIRT cooperation</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On January 30, the EU Cybersecurity Agency, ENISA, organised “</span> <a href="https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/enisa-organises-cyber-exercise-to-boost-csirt-cooperation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Cyber SOPEx</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">” the first cooperation exercise of the Computer Security Incident Response Teams (“</span> <a href="http://mmail.dods.co.uk/wf/click?upn=dYp8rVhQxtCbE2VSlRzwO1BV98ztBZdiyGHzM4DJI8u344FbGspEq4jRHMGOVQ52Ew-2Bxbfe7TPWgQvqLICdGiA-3D-3D_HM2xLN2tM-2FYF1ZWutwuBpRAdFSQbUrSs7NyboXLLFm9xVCt-2Bu4WqbjkabwqEwZAV1iqlF7V58p6weYt-2FUyxJobWsyFrdRwdQ-2FlYiRWznfu22HMk08-2BwHVV0eRL6yU65EIzchPrixUwAnJH9vIJlsrm4oCpTtlXJ6b2YbjV-2FBYOtHi8ISRBEPF74Ad7UEQZSgP9BRSs7OkVFxMgtH4YNyl62VZVn0xcLG3V-2BcGI7i7J4-3D"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">CSIRTs Network</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">”).</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">This was the first of a series of exercises aimed at raising awareness, encouraging information and best practices sharing, and providing training.</span> <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">UK: mass digital surveillance bill ruled unlawful</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The UK Court of Appeals found that large parts of the Government’s mass surveillance bill (the Investigatory Powers Act, nicknamed “Snoopers Charter”) to collect data on users’ Internet activity and phone records to be</span> <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4362101-Watson-v-SSHD.html"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">unlawful</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">. On January 30, three UK judges</span> <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/uk-court-rules-mass-surveillance-bill-unlawful-180130183613260.html"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">confirmed</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> the rules breached EU law, as it allowed the data to be collected for reasons other than fighting serious crimes.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The case was first brought to Court by Tom Watson a Member of Parliament from the Labour Party following the introduction of the 2014 Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIP). This Act expired in 2016 and was then replaced by the Investigatory Powers Act that actually further expands on the existing posers of the government’s surveillance authority.</span> <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: ENISA’s “Crystal Ball” report</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On January 31, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Society (ENISA) issued a first</span> <a href="https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/looking-into-the-crystal-ball/at_download/fullReport"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">report</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> that assesses key emerging technologies and their associated existing and future security challenges.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Among others, the report analyses technological and security challenges linked to the Internet of Things, Next Generation IT infrastructure, gamification, Artificial Intelligence and robotics</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">ENISA stated that these areas</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> will present challenges to the cybersecurity community in the upcoming years and calls on all stakeholders to engage in a constructive, continuous dialogue.</span> <p style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">DE: German national competition regulator scrutinises Google and Facebook</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">On February 1, the German Antitrust Office</span> <a href="http://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2018/01_02_2018_SU_Online_Werbung.html"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">announced</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> a sector inquiry into market conditions in the online advertising sector. The regulator will also investigate whether large ad platforms such as those ran by Google and Facebook are operating as closed systems and evaluate their potential impact on competition.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The President of the</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Bundeskartellamt</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> said they decided to start the investigation “due to the great economic importance of this sector for advertisers and content providers active on the Internet and in view of discussions about the difficult competitive environment in this market.”</span> <p style="text-align:justify">
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<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">EU: CEN and CENELEC’s position on the Cybersecurity Act</span>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">CENELEC, the European regional standards organization, together with its sister organization CEN, has published a</span> <a href="ftp://ftp.cencenelec.eu/EN/News/PolicyOpinions/2018/CybersecurityAct.pdf"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">position paper</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'"> on the draft regulation “Cybersecurity Act”, currently under discussion by the co-legislators.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">The Cybersecurity Act aims to set up an EU certification framework for ICT products and services. CEN and CENELEC invite the Commission to engage with the European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs) to create a priority list of products and services.</span> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">Among other recommendations, t</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Hind Light'">he two organisations also invite all the formally recognized standardization organizations to define the requirements and standards to be used in certification schemes, prioritising international standards.</span> <p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12.000000pt">
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