The competitiveness of the European automotive industry stands and falls with a consistent and innovation-friendly digital policy, according to the VDA position paper on EU digital policy. The association calls on the Commission to harmonize contradictory regulations. It cites data protection (GDPR), data security (NIS-2), and data access (Data Act) as examples. At the same time, the VDA is calling for the creation of uniform standards for software-defined vehicles (SDV) and the strengthening of open-source approaches.