Name: Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Joint meeting Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Uploaded: 2026-07-13T15:45:00+00:00
Duration: 5741 s

07:28 - 08:57

Speaker 1

So, dear colleagues, take your seats please so we can start our joint committee session. First item is the adoption of the agenda. I understand that there are no objections to the draft agenda as proposed, so it is adopted. Interpretation is provided in all languages except Danish, Latvian, Maltese, Irish and Croatian. So now we can proceed to point three on our agenda, the consideration of the draft report of the so-called Digital Omnibus.

The Digital Omnibus was proposed in November last year together with the Digital Omnibus on AI, for which LIBE was also in the lead.

That proposal introduces a number of changes that aim to optimize the application of the digital rulebook and to bring a competitive advantage to responsible businesses. The Digital Omnibus includes a number of Union legal acts to be amended, including the Data Act, the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive or the Platform-to-Business Regulation. Because of the variety of areas, the file is being dealt with jointly by LIBE and ITRE as lead committees, and IMCO and JURI as opinion-giving committees. I will now give the floor to my colleague Jens Geier, who will co-chair this joint meeting on behalf of ITRE committee, and he will explain to us the setup of today's meeting. Please.

08:57 - 10:35

Speaker 2

Thank you, Javier. I would also like to welcome all participants at the presentation of the draft report on the Digital Omnibus, a proposal aimed at simplifying European data laws and making them easier for consumers and businesses to comply with, as well as inter alia boosting competitiveness. In terms of procedure, I will invite the co-rapporteurs Ms Aura Salla and Ms Marina Kaljurand to start by presenting their draft reports, three minutes each.

I will take the liberty to give you a little signal when the three minutes are consumed. And after that, I will invite the shadow rapporteurs to take the floor for one and a half minutes. The floor will then be given to Ms. Sippel, who will read the notes of the rapporteurs from the opinion-giving committee, two hours each, in the following order... Okay, sorry, two minutes. Two minutes are enough.

In the following order: IMCO and then JURI. I will also invite for a short intervention the European Commission representative, Ms. Renate Nikolay, who is the Deputy Director-General in DG CONNECT, for her comments, also for three minutes. I remind everyone to please stick to the time. If time allows, other members of the ITRE and LIBE committee will be given the floor. I would invite all members who want to take the floor to put their nameplate vertically in their holders.

Now I give the floor to Ms. Salla to make her presentation for three minutes.

10:35 - 12:00

Speaker 3

Thank you so much, Chair. Indeed, it's a very timely Omnibus right now.

Many of you have been engaging together with me on the Meta's access scandal, and this just underlines how much we need right now European alternatives what comes to AI, and what that requires is more data for our companies to be able to train their models. However, we need to keep our high standards what comes to privacy and, of course, owning our own data. In our draft report, we focused on some initial points where we could find a common ground. And this week, we will table amendments to the draft report, and then we will begin our work on working together jointly to make compromise amendments. So what we could agree on was the new single reporting portal.

The ambition of harmonization is a good one, but we need also to fix what businesses are actually required to report. There should be no overlaps or inconsistencies. We also cannot let the omnibus hurt small businesses. And that is why the repeal of the P2B should be reversed. If needed, the digital fitness check can then take a more careful look on this one as well.