Public Affairs - Protecting your freedom to advertise

The Lisbon Treaty has been ratified by the German Government and on 2nd October, the Irish have also approved it through a referendum. The Swedish EU Presidency has also announced its plans to appoint the new Commissioners, the high representative for foreign policy and the permanent European Council President at the EU summit on 29th and 30th October. Such plans will be dependent on a favourable outcome of the Irish referendum on the 2nd October.

August has been a quiet month, due to the Parliament summer recess, and only since last week it’s gone back to business as usual.  In this roundup:

1. Barroso reveals mandate to European Parliament
2. Commissioner Barrot introduces Stockholm Programme to JURI
3. EU: Swedish Presidency on online children safety
4. EU: Commission urges greater action towards a Media Literate Europe
5. EU: Council and Parliament discuss labelling
6. EU: Verheugen on Pharma Package
7. Commission calls for study on consumer protection of digital content
8. Commission criticised for Collective Redress proposal
9. MEP questions Commission cross-border action
10. Contract law: Common Frame of Reference guidelines agreed

This months Public Affairs roundup includes updates on the Public Affiars roundtable at the recent Interact conference, the Telecoms Package, Energy Labelling Directive, SNS, Internet governance, and an action plan for IoT. 

May's public affairs update includes the latest on the Telecoms Package, the eYouGuide, data protection, the "Digital Agenca", protecting children online, the use of RFID ships, and the latest consumer protection developments

1. Update on the Telecoms Package
2. Commission launches eYouGuide on consumers rights online
3. Commission launches "Digital Agenda"
4. Reding wants greater transparency and a ‘G12’ for internet governance in 2009
5. Update on the Review of the Data Protection Directive
6. EU: Reding on the Internet of the Future
7. 2nd Open Forum on Alcohol and Health, 30th April 2009, Brussels
8. EU: Commission on RFID chips and privacy
9. Developments on Consumer Protection and Collective Redress
10. EU: EESC on Protecting children using the internet

This month’s newsletter brings you updates on the Telecoms Package, the Digital Consumer event organised by DG SANCO at which IAB Europe President was a speaker and recent developments on behavioural advertising.

1. Update on the Telecoms Package
2. SANCO event on profiling
3. First EU Consumer Summit
4. Commission on behavioural advertising
5. ALDE group launches European Civil Liberties Day -15th April
6. European Conference on ‘Safer Internet for Children’ adopts Prague Declaration
7. 2nd Open Forum on Alcohol and Health, 30th April 2009, Brussels
8. Developments on Consumer Protection and Collective Redress
9. Commission proposes new strategy to combat cyber attacks and disruptions
10. ICOMP Conference on Privacy and Competition in the Online Marketplace  
    

This month’s newsletter contains updates on the Telecoms Package, the Digital Consumer event organised by DG SANCO, at which IAB Europe will be speaking, and consumer protection initiatives at EU level. 

This month’s newsletter brings you updates on the Telecoms Package, Unfair Commercial Practices event, the Safer Internet Day, reports on online gambling and videogames amongst others. 

1. Update on the Telecoms Package
   
2. EU:  SANCO event on UCP
   
3. EU: Art 29WP meeting
4. European Data Protection Day - 28th January 2009  
   
5. Safer Internet Day – 10th February
   
6. Online gambling
   
7. IMCO discusses draft own initiative report on video games
   
8. Commissioner Reding’s speech on ‘Internet of the Future’
   
9. European Parliament votes to criminalize internet ‘grooming’
   
10. Report on international Trade adopted  

Our team has been monitoring a wide range of issues and discussions in Brussels affecting digital advertising – see our round-up from the first couple of weeks of January on the Czech Presidency’s priorities, initiatives related to the EU Year of Innovation and Creativity and further developments on data protection and the e-Privacy Directive.

1. EU: EDPS second Opinion on ePrivacy
2. EU: European Data Protection Day - 28th January 2009
3. International meeting on compulsory privacy standards in Spain
4. EU: Czech Presidency to address issue of child protection on the internet
5. European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009
6. Court of Justice defines rules on data protection and freedom of press
7. Reshuffle in the Commission
8. EU: 3 million .eu domain names now registered
9. MEPs denounce human rights violations in the EU
10. Parliament backs protection of consumers by approving report on unfair commercial practices

Our December Public Affairs update includes updates onthe EU's e-privacy rules, consumer contracts, child protection online, online advertising, and self regulation of digital media in the UK.

IAB Europe's Public Affairs team keeps track of the discussions in Brussels that have the potential to affect digital advertising and advertisers. We are pleased to send you the summary of the top relevant issues that the EU has been looking at during the month of November. Whilst the main focus is on the Telecom Package, some interesting developments on consumer protection legislation have taken place. 

IAB Europe's Public Affairs team keeps track of the discussions in Brussels that have the potential to affect digital advertising and advertisers. We are pleased to send you the summary of the top relevant issues that the EU has been looking at during the month of October.

Get the latest news on the Telecoms package, safer surfing for children, the Safer Internet Forum, the e-commerce consultation, and updates on car and pharmaceutical advertising.