Digital policy: responsibilities in the • Table.Briefings

With the decision that there will not be a full-fledged digital ministry, but that the departmental assignments will change, the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport is growing. Some European policy responsibilities are also changing hands, most notably the DSA. Other issues remain unresolved going into the new year.

It is clear that parts of the digital department of the Federal Ministry of Economics will move to the BMDV. Negotiations on this have not yet been concluded, but in the future, the BMDV, with two departments under the new State Secretary Stefan Schnorr, will be in charge of digital infrastructure issues on the one hand, and telecommunications and large parts of Telemedia on the other.

Digital policy: responsibilities in the Federal Government become clearer

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