EuroISPA Response to the Digital Networks Act Call for Evidence
EuroISPA contributed to the European Commission’s consultation on the upcoming Digital Networks Act (DNA) and emphasises the importance of a transparent, inclusive and proportionate approach to reforming the EU’s electronic communications framework.
EuroISPA’s key messages:
- Defining limits to harmonise access regulation and network transition: Harmonised access products must remain optional and copper switch-off plans must reflect national readiness and diversity.
- Advancing harmonisation and simplification: Simplification must lower administrative burdens without compromising national flexibility or increasing regulatory overlap.
- Enabling technology-neutral connectivity framework: A level playing field for fibre, wireless and satellite is essential to closing the digital divide.
- Aligning environmental legislations with existing EU frameworks: Environmental rules should align with existing horizontal ESG frameworks, avoiding telecom-specific duplication.
- Distinguishing consumer protection from enterprise services: Enterprise and public sector services should be exempt from consumer protection rules due to their bespoke nature.
- Ensuring proportional and non-redundant governance structures: Knowledge sharing is welcome, but expanded EU-level powers must respect the principle of subsidiarity.
- Focusing on demand-side gaps and digital skills: Efforts should address adoption barriers and digital skills rather than expanding costly Universal Service Obligations.
- Maintaining a consistent commitment to net neutrality: Net neutrality must remain a cornerstone of the open internet and be upheld without reinterpretation or compromise.
Read the full response to the European Commission here.
