Consumers should have greater protections online thanks to the Digital Services Act which EU ministers signed off on today. This was the last political stage before the text becomes EU law. It is crucial that the Digital Services Act gets properly enforced by national authorities and the European Commission.

The European Commission has today proposed to update civil liability rules for products and services to make them fit for purpose in the digital era. BEUC has repeatedly called for their modernisation, and for a clear and enforceable legal framework, given that products are increasingly digitalised, complex, opaque and when powered with AI, can take autonomous decisions.

The European Commission has proposed new rules for the cybersecurity of connected products which would substantially improve the worrying situation today. This proposal answers a longstanding need that the BEUC network identified and warned about repeatedly.