2024
December 2024: ECIS 2024 Annual Event Recap
October 2024: ECIS Policy priorities for the 2024-2029 EU mandate
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2023
June 2023: ECIS commends the co-legislators on reaching an agreement on the Data Act
April 2023: ECIS publishes its Two-pager on EUCS and Cybersecurity
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2022
September 2022: ECIS publishes its Position Paper on the European Commission Data Act Proposal
June 2022: ECIS publishes its Statement on NIS 2 agreement as of 8 June 2022
May 2022: ECIS submits its Feedback on the European Commission proposal for the Data Act
May 2022: ECIS submits its Feedback on SEP’s consultation
April 2022: ECIS publishes its Press Statement on the DMA
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2021
September 2021: ECIS submits its Feedback to the European Commission Data Act Public consultation
June 2021: ECIS submits its Data Act Feedback 25 June 2021
May 2021: ECIS hosts a webinar on Open Strategic Autonomy. Please see the Summary of ECIS webinar on OSA
May 2021: ECIS submits its Feedback on the European Commission’s proposal for the DIGITAL MARKETS ACT
March 2021: ECIS submits its Feedback on the European Commissions proposal for the Digital Service Act
March 2021: ECIS submits its Feedback on the European Commission’s proposal for a Revised Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems
February 2021: ECIS submits its Feedback on the EC Proposal for a digital operational resilience act- DORA-15 February 2021
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2020
December 2020: ECIS hosts an event on The Cloud: Digital Sovereignty and Global Competitiveness. Please see ECIS Annual Event 2020 – Summary 9 Dec 2020 and Press release ECIS Event 9 Dec 2020 final
June 2020: ECIS publishes its Submission on the European Commission’s White Paper on Artificial Intelligence – a European approach to excellence and trust
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2019
December 2019: ECIS hosts an event “30 years with ECIS: Our role in the interoperability debate through the eras of Mainframe, Client Server and Cloud” Please see the Summary of interesting presentations held here
October 2019: ECIS publishes its White paper on The importance of openness and interoperability in cybersecurity and cloud services
June 2019: ECIS publishes its Statement on the adoption of the EU Cybersecurity Act, see ECIS Statement on the adoption of the EU Cybersecurity Act
June 2019 : ECIS hosts an event on “GDPR one year on”, see ECIS Programme-12-June-2019 You can find a Summary of presentations held here ECIS event – GDPR one year on – Data privacy and security – Summary
May 2019: ECIS publishes its position on the Cybersecurity Competence Centre and Network of National Coordination Centres ECIS – CCCN – concerns around exclusion of third countries
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2018
November 2018: ECIS hosts ECIS Annual event on The Future of Cybersecurity on 29 November 2018
May 2018 : ECIS hosts an event on “What are the barriers to harnessing AI in Europe?” You can find a summary of the interesting presentations held here: ECIS summary of event on AI – 3 May 2018
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2017
November 2017: ECIS hosts an event on The Future of AI in Europe. You can find summaries of the interesting debates held here: ECIS event held on 29 11 2017 – The Future of AI in Europe – Summary
September 2017: ECIS publishes statement on the European Commission Communication on Resilience, Deterrence and Defense: Building Strong cyber security for the EU, which is available here: ECIS Press Release_Cyber security Communication_September 2017
June 2017: ECIS hosts a roundtable event entitled “When does Artificial Intelligence become a liability?” You can find a summary of the interesting presentations held here: Summary of ECIS rountable_When does AI become a liability_12 June 2017
April 2017: ECIS submits its response to the public consultation on “Building the data Economy,” and also puts together some initial thoughts on extra-contractual liabilities in relation to IoT and robotics products and services. You can find ECIS’ initial thoughts on the matter here: ECIS’ initial thoughts on extra-contractual liabilities for IoT.
March 2017: ECIS submits its response to the public consultation on “European catalogue of ICT standards,” which is available here: Response to consultation on EU catalogue of ICT standards.
January 2017: ECIS submits its response to the public consultation on “Evaluation of procedural and jurisdictional aspects of EU merger control” which is available here: ECIS’ one-pager in response to consultation on EU Merger Control Regulation.
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2016
November 2016: ECIS hosts an event on Big Data and innovation. You can find summaries of the interesting debates held here: ECIS event 29 11 2016_Big data and competition law_summary of presentation and here: ECIS event 29 11 2016_Artificial Intelligence_summary of presentation.
June 2016: ECIS prepares a special paper on “cloud switching” and the free flow of data addressing issues concerning portability and interoperability of software and data across cloud services. You can find the paper here: ECIS’ Special Paper on Cloud Computing – Portability and Interoperability – 16-06-27.
January 2016: ECIS submits its response to the public consultation on “The regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing, and the collaborative economy. ECIS’ response and comments are available here: ECIS response to online platforms consultation and here: ECIS_Comments on public consultation on online platforms.
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2015
December 2015: ECIS hosts a symposium on the promise and challenge of cloud computing for business and government. For the purpose of this symposium ECIS published a paper on the Hybrid Cloud which is available here: ECIS Hybrid Cloud Paper.
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2014
November 2014: ECIS published a report entitled “Ensuring a thriving cloud market: Why interoperability matters for business and government.” The report describes common pitfalls for businesses and governments trying to purchase cloud services, and suggests strategies to counteract potentially costly problems. Users become locked in to on system if it is proprietary. The alterative is to use systems designed to common standards, freely available for use by anyone, known as “open standards.” Such open standards are used on the World Wide Web. For the full text of the report, please see: http://www.ecis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cloud-Computing-Standards-Compatibility-and-Interoperability1.pdf. For ECIS’ policy recommendations prepared on the basis of the report, please see: http://www.ecis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ECIS-cloud-computing-paper_Policy-Recommendations.pdf.
April 2014: ECIS submitted its response to the European Commission’s public consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules. You can find the response here.
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2011
December 2011: EIPR article on the SAS case
This article argues that competition and innovation in the software industry in the European Union will be seriously undermined if the Court of Justice of the European Union in SAS Institute, Inc v World Programming Ltd holds that copyright protection for computer programs extends to the functional behaviour of computer programs, to programming languages and to data formats and data interfaces essential for achieving interoperability. This article explains why the text and legislative history of the EU Software Directive, in line with international treaty provisions, should be understood as providing protection for the literary aspects of programs, but not to functionality, languages and data interfaces. Copyright has an important, but limited role to play in protecting program innovations, especially in view of the increased availability of patents for functional aspects of software. The draft version of the article that was published in the EIPR in February 2012 is available on SSRN: Does Copyright Protection Under the EU Software Directive Extend to Computer Program Behaviour, Languages and Interfaces?
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2010
An ECIS primer in how to identify unlawful public procurement of IT-related products and services and what to do about them. This was written in 2010, so please note the names at the end are now out of date Public Procurement Primer (1)
Maurits Dolmans, “European Interoperability Framework v2.0 Open standards to promote software interoperability”, ECIS Breakfast Briefing – September 7, 2010: describing the importance of interoperability in an increasingly networked world, and discussion of various ways and means to achieve interoperability in the context of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), proposing a synthesis for EIF, providing for FRAND licensing for telecom interoperability and RF licensing for software interoperability standards. Read more.
Advocating for openness and interoperabilityThomas Vinje, Clifford Chance LLP, Councel to ECIS, Geneva, 26 January 2010. Read More
“Practicing Open Procurement of IT,” presentation by Thomas Vinje from June 2010. SEE MORE in Power Point or in OpenOffice.org Impress
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2009
ECIS position paper on post-i2010 public consultation (1) ECIS comments on guidelines for co-operation between competitors, known as the revised competition rules on horizontal co-operation agreements, often referred to as the horizontal guidelines. Our comments were among those considered by the Commission before it finally issued them in December, 2010. The guidelines may be found here. The press release announcing the guidelines is here, and questions and answers about the guidelines here. ECIS Comments on Draft Horizontal Guidelines
“Competition in Office Suite Programs”, by Mark MacCarthy of Georgetown University, arguing that governments should adopt a procurement policy for a single standard for office suite programs to promote competition. Read the article. (PDF)
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2008
Maurits Dolmans, “The telecom standards experience shows the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) for software is right”, ECIS presentation, December 10, 2008: describing the role of patents in standard setting and the risk of hold-up and royalty stacks, proposing a definition of FRAND in that context, and an alternative for software interoperability standards. Read more. ECIS’ comments in reply to the public consultation on the revised rules for the assessment of horizontal cooperation agreements under EU law, Brussels, 29 June 2010. Read more.