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Archive page with main documents of the preparatory steps and of documents that were produced after the adoption of the directive like a communication, studies and public consultations.

Publication of high level reports of four workshops with business users which summarise the discussions and set out in more detail the various practices experienced by these business users.

In its follow-up to the Digital Single Market Strategy, the European Commission has undertaken a study aimed at learning more about the business-to-business (B2B) relations between online platforms and businesses active on these platforms.
In order to learn more about current trading practices, the Commission invites all businesses using online platforms and the online platforms themselves to take part in a survey launched by the study.

The European Commission is organising a series of workshops to discuss specific issues related to trading practices between online platforms and their business users. A high-level report of the workshop focusing on data-related issues is now available.

More than 750 European researchers, investors and policy makers will gather in Bratislava, Slovakia, on 28 and 29 September for the 2016 Digital Assembly (#DA16eu) to discuss the creation of a Digital Single Market in the EU.

Commission Staff Working Document - Impact Assessment accompanying the document "Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2010/13/EU on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of
audiovisual media services in view of changing market realities
(COM(2016) 287 final) - (SWD(2016) 169 final}

Commission Staff Working Document on Online Platforms, accompanying the document "Communication
on Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market" (COM(2016) 288)