Today, the European Commission announced an agreement between the European Parliament and EU Council that—on the surface—claims to promise to protect net neutrality, while simultaneously allowing
Today, the European Commission announced an agreement between the European Parliament and EU Council that—on the surface—claims to promise to protect net neutrality, while simultaneously allowing May 19, 2019 · The European Union has had net neutrality regulations in place since 2016, but some are concerned that internet service providers are playing fast and loose with those rules. A group of 45 Dec 13, 2019 · EU carbon neutrality: Leaders agree 2050 target without Poland and other guarantees before they agreed to the EU cutting to zero its net amount of greenhouse gas emissions. the summit and Only two EU countries (Netherlands and Slovenia) have adopted national laws on net neutrality. With the new EU law, all European countries will have to incorporate rules on net neutrality. Finally, the freedom and the right of European citizens to access or distribute Internet content will no longer depend on country rules in which they live. Apr 03, 2014 · EU passes net neutrality law, votes to end throttling, site blocking. European politicians pass a net neutrality law that will bring fair access to bandwidth and content access across the 28
May 24, 2019 · Net neutrality is the idea that all internet connections should be treated equally. In a world without net neutrality, ISPs can limit what you can and can’t see, charge you extra to access certain sites or services, and internet censorship is commonplace.
EU Directive 2009/140/EC protects net neutrality (skip to the last page unless you really like reading legalese), while another directive establishes BEREC (Body of European Regulators of Latest News. BEREC holds extraordinary plenary meeting to provide input on the two public consultations of the EC. 15 July 2020 “Cooperation between stakeholders - the key principle to drive the development of the digital sphere,“ says BEREC Chair at the GSR-20 discussion
Apr 28, 2017 · The European Union legislation on open internet access does not specify if zero-rating is allowed. Instead, the EU lawmakers decided to leave it to national authorities to determine it on a case-by-case basis. “They kicked the can down the road,” said Thomas Lohninger, long-time activist involved in getting net neutrality enshrined in EU law.
In a resolution from March 2019, the European Parliament asked for more ambitious emission reduction target for 2030 in order to reach the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Currently three EU countries have set the target of climate neutrality in law: Sweden aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2045, and France and the UK by 2050. Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 laying down measures concerning open internet access and amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services and Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 on roaming on public mobile communications networks within the Union (Text with EEA May 20, 2019 · The coalition notes that at least 186 EU ISPs are now ignoring the net neutrality restrictions without penalty, highlighting how net neutrality rules don't mean much if regulators aren't willing Aug 29, 2016 · New net neutrality guidelines from the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) confirm strong protection for net neutrality, and for the free and open internet, in the European Union. Europe is now a global standard-setter in the defence of the open, competitive and neutral internet. We congratulate BEREC on its diligent work, its …