Presented by the European Commission as a simplification effort aimed at making European digital law “less costly” and more conducive to competitiveness, the Digital Omnibus is already facing criticism from all sides. The tech industry, the ECB, the French Senate, the German Bundesrat, the media, and audience measurement firms: everyone is attacking the text… but rarely for the same reasons. “The Digital Omnibus proposal is a first step to optimise the application of the digital rulebook. The immediate objective is to ensure that compliance with the rules comes at a lower cost, delivers on the same objectives, and brings in itself a competitive advantage to responsible businesses. ” This is how the European Commission presented its vast project to simplify European digital law in its proposal last November. Criticized from all sides But several months after its presentation, the Digital Omnibus already appears to be a politically perilous endeavor despite its seemingly laudable goals. Criticism is now coming from nearly all sides, though it is not entirely unified. Part of the industry believes that Brussels…
