Post by Benjamin Raue

Digital simplification package: simplification or deregulation? In the end, that is a political question. Simplification through standardisation of commonly used terms – and a reduction of unnecessary overlaps between the Digital Acts of the EU is a goal so commonly shared that it should be a no brainer. And there are a lot of low hanging fruits in the #P2B, #TCO, #AVMSD and #DSMD which need no political debate but leadership – and detailed work by the Commission. The proposed repeal of the P2B regulation is just a start and solves only a few problems (and taking away protection for usually smaller traders). The same applies to the unnecessary translation errors (at least in the German version of most acts). In my presentation at the annual conference of the German Association of IT Law (DGRI - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik e.V. ) in Berlin I have presented numerous examples of those low hanging fruits which would make compliance so much easier – and rating them on a ‚low hanging fruit-o-meter.‘ There are a lot of easy picks for the Commission. Franz Hofmann | Dr. Johanna Götz | Christiane Wendehorst | Dr. Gerd Kiparski | Anselm Brandi-Dohrn | Heinze Christian | Monika Menz | Caroline Gaul | Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann