EGDF calls the Commission to tackle regulatory market access barriers

EGDF response on call of evidence for Single Market Strategy 2025

In its response to the call for evidence for the Single Market Strategy, EGDF underlined that the Commission should focus on removing the following two key market access barriers.

  1. Overcoming regulatory market access barriers:
    1. European self and co-regulation as a solution: All EU initiatives must focus on imposing general principles. The details must be left to market players’ self-regulation or co-regulation in cooperation with national authorities and the Commission. EU member states should benchmark the opportunities of co-regulatory systems like PEGI for agile market regulation. 
    2. Overcoming regulatory market access barriers through better regulation: All national and European regulations must be based on strong technology-, content- and business-model neutrality. All regulations should be fully harmonised on the EU level. The legislative environments for the different sectors must constitute a consistent whole. The European Union and member states must use the same clear, uniform and unambiguous definitions for key concepts (e.g., personal data) across all policy sectors.
    3. Overcoming regulatory market access barriers through better implementation of the regulation:  All EU member states should always discuss and coordinate any changes in their interpretation of EU law and national regulatory implementation practices with other EU member states. This coordination must not happen only within one policy sector but also between administrative silos (e.g. consumer and data protection authorities). 
    4. Overcoming regulatory market access barriers through better enforcement of the regulation: It is essential to ensure that judges and enforcement authorities across the EU have the same high enough technical expertise to understand how, for example, AI systems and digital value chains work. ​Any official request from another EU country for information or data for a business operating in the Single Market Area should always come through the local national enforcement authority. All EU member states should allocate sufficient resources for their national enforcement authorities to ensure cutting-edge cyber and data security for data transfers to enforcement authorities. 
    5. Overcoming regulatory market access barriers through better access to regulation: All EU member states should allocate sufficient resources to translating all relevant acts, implementation guidelines, and court decisions into English. All national acts, guidelines, and court rulings concerning digital content creation must be available in a single European portal. All EU member states should also allocate sufficient resources for their national enforcement authorities to help and support foreign businesses in English.
  2. Overcoming barriers for cross-border remote work:
    1. Building the single market for remote work: The EU must establish a European one-stop shop for all national and European remote working rules and practices and build, based on the European eIDAS framework, a global framework for eSignature. 

For more information, on building fair digital single market area please visit https://www.egdf.eu/documentation/5-fair-digital-markets/building-a-functional-digital-market-area-2/egovernment/ and on building the single market for remote work  https://www.egdf.eu/documentation/access-to-talent/enabling-cross-border-remote-work/