Auto dialog: Data access and SEPs topic • Table.Briefings

Henna Virkkunen at EP Plenary session - The need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms against foreign interference and biased algorithms. — Digital Commissioner Henna Virkkunen has been asked not to withdraw the proposal on standard essential patents.

At the digital working session, manufacturers and suppliers unanimously called for the Commission’s proposal on standard essential patents to be retained. Digital Commissioner Henna Virkkunen did not indicate whether the Commission would like to present a different proposal. Manufacturers and suppliers did not agree on the issue of data.

Manufacturers and suppliers have appealed to Commission Vice-President Henna Virkkunen at the third working session of the Auto dialog on digital issues to reactivate the legislative proposal on standard essential patents (SEPs). Representatives of the industry associations ACEA and CLEPA as well as the supplier Continental spoke out in favor of this. SEPs are patents that are part of a standard, such as the 5G mobile communications standard, which plays a role in connected driving.

Auto dialog: Data access and SEPs topic at Virkkunen working session

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