Digital Single Market portability and cross-border access proposals - the story so far…

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This article was produced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017.

The EU's Digital Single Market ("DSM") initiative has been a major policy focus of the EU Commission installed in 2014. The DSM package aggregates a wide range of policy areas, including e-commerce, physical delivery services, copyright law, VAT, telecoms infrastructure, mobile roaming, data regulation and digital skills, with the aim of increasing employment and stimulating economic growth in the EU. The DSM package is politically driven by EU politicians' need to demonstrate results of the European project to their increasingly sceptical citizens – hence the focus on populist benefits such as mobile roaming and content portability. However, the DSM package created controversy within the audiovisual content industry following various statements by senior EU Commissioners criticising geo-blocking.



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