New Regulatory Approaches under the EU’s Legislation on Digitalisation: Introduction to the Special Edition of the EJRR “Charting the Landscape of Automation of Regulatory Decision-Making”

This introductory article outlines three fundamental regulatory developments in the EU’s legislation addressing digitalization and automation of decision-making: One is that across many acts we see a move towards more complex multi-level composite procedures, involving not only public structures wit...

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Main Authors: Herwig C.H. Hofmann, Felix Pflücke
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2025-03-01
Series:European Journal of Risk Regulation
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description This introductory article outlines three fundamental regulatory developments in the EU’s legislation addressing digitalization and automation of decision-making: One is that across many acts we see a move towards more complex multi-level composite procedures, involving not only public structures with agencies, EU bodies, national agencies, but also co-regulation through standardisation in combination with – in several areas – audited self-regulation. A second feature of much of the current legislation in digital matters is that obligations imposed therein require an increased attention to information management – from sourcing to use, dissemination, sharing. This is a requirement for both public and private actors imposing ever more ‘granular’ knowledge and reporting of information flows in economic operators. A third is the growing role of interoperability which is being firmly established as a tool to create data exchange possibilities The diverse regulatory tools and methods are creating complex networks of legal relations and obligations which appear difficult to submit to oversight and compliance without strong protection of individual rights and procedural structures ensuring their enforcement.
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New Regulatory Approaches under the EU’s Legislation on Digitalisation: Introduction to the Special Edition of the EJRR “Charting the Landscape of Automation of Regulatory Decision-Making”
European Journal of Risk Regulation
EU law
Regulatory approaches
Digitalisation
title New Regulatory Approaches under the EU’s Legislation on Digitalisation: Introduction to the Special Edition of the EJRR “Charting the Landscape of Automation of Regulatory Decision-Making”
title_full New Regulatory Approaches under the EU’s Legislation on Digitalisation: Introduction to the Special Edition of the EJRR “Charting the Landscape of Automation of Regulatory Decision-Making”
title_fullStr New Regulatory Approaches under the EU’s Legislation on Digitalisation: Introduction to the Special Edition of the EJRR “Charting the Landscape of Automation of Regulatory Decision-Making”
title_full_unstemmed New Regulatory Approaches under the EU’s Legislation on Digitalisation: Introduction to the Special Edition of the EJRR “Charting the Landscape of Automation of Regulatory Decision-Making”
title_short New Regulatory Approaches under the EU’s Legislation on Digitalisation: Introduction to the Special Edition of the EJRR “Charting the Landscape of Automation of Regulatory Decision-Making”
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Regulatory approaches
Digitalisation
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