The EU’s attempts to regulate Artificial Intelligence could be met with future challenges resulting from an agreement on e-Commerce at the level of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to a new study published on Tuesday (26 January).
Talks have been ongoing since January 2019 between members of the WTO in a bid to agree on global rules to facilitate worldwide e-commerce transactions.
However, concerns have been highlighted that the text currently backed by the EU could result in a prohibition on signatories from adopting legislation that obliges firms to provide access to the source code of their software.
In this vein, a report published by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) says that a number of EU objectives in the field of digital policy currently on the table could be stifled by the WTO agreement.
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By Luigi Serenelli2020-12-11T10:09:00+00:00
The reform proposal presented by the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) has sparked an intense debate on the future of the German pension system.
An initial version of the document, which was unofficially circulated, was amended this month leaving several parties unsatisfied with the latest recommendations.
“It is a shame that the CDU did not have the courage to include [in the proposal’s final version] employment insurance, which was originally in a draft. We could have worked well together [on that point],” Ralf Kapschack, lead for pensions policy at the Social Democratic Party, told IPE.