Some other related issues:

Legal Advisory Board

In May 1985, the Commission established the Legal Advisory Board (LAB) with the task of increasing the awareness of legal issues realted to the Internet to submit ideas and recommendationsto the Commission on eliminating disparities and aligning national legal provisions.

Quality of Service parameters for Internet Service Provision

As Internet services are increasingly penetrating all aspects of society and the provision of access to the Internet is becoming diversified into various levels of service and cost, it is appropriate to study the emerging issues related to the extended notion of "Quality of Service" (QoS) as applied to the effort to meet the needs of end users.

Thus a study has been commissioned from Bannock Consulting (UK) to examine what users want from the Internet and to propose some parameters to measure Quality of Service.

The final report from the Study (in .pdf format) is intended as input to further discussion of this subject.

Harmful and illegal content on the internet

The Action Plan on promoting safer use of the Internet is part of a coherent set of policies at EU level to deal with illegal and harmful content on the Internet. See also related policy measures: EU Action | Member States | International