BEREC response to the public consultation on the draft Digital Omnibus

BEREC welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commission’s (EC) consultation on the Digital Omnibus Regulation proposal aiming, inter alia, to amend and streamline the European data regulatory framework. The current BEREC’s response specifically focuses on the cloud-related provisions under the Data Act.

Nevertheless, BEREC acknowledges the wider scope of the Digital Omnibus and has reflected on the interplay amongst the different EU digital legislations and underlined the importance of those being applied in a coherent and efficient manner avoiding unnecessary red tape for the stakeholders. Along these lines, BEREC has sustained that the institutional set-up should aim at facilitating regulatory enforcement. Regulatory consistency and harmonisation should be promoted and coordination among all public bodies involved must be ensured to safeguard the mentioned coherence, providing clear and consistent guidelines to the users and providers, facilitate compliance and allow the necessary regulatory dialogue to enable competent authorities to adopt a uniform approach fostering legal certainty, regulatory simplification and further efficiency in the implementation of their policies.

Against this backdrop, BEREC strongly welcomes the current EC’s initiatives, also including the Digital Fitness Check, and looks forward to contributing to it along the process supporting the considerations for in-depth analysis including, inter alia, the coherence between specific legal notions such as definitions or governance matters.