The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has launched a consultation on its draft report on the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on internet openness, adopted by its Board of Regulators at meetings on 1–2 October 2026. The report examines how generative AI affects users’ ability to access and distribute online information, content and services without unlawful interference or discrimination, and to innovate. It finds that AI-generated answers and recommendations can improve convenience but may limit user choice and concentrate control among a small number of providers. Reduced traffic and revenue for original content providers may also weaken incentives to produce quality content. The report examines technical protocols supporting interoperability and mechanisms allowing content providers to control AI access. It concludes that addressing these challenges requires effective enforcement of existing European legislation, closer coordination between authorities, greater transparency, meaningful user choice and protection of publishers’ rights. The consultation closes on 11 November 2026.

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has launched a call for inputs for stakeholders to submit their ideas for BEREC’s work in 2025. After considering proposals received, BEREC will publish a draft BEREC Work Programme 2025 which will be subject to a public consultation in October 2024. The deadline for submitting inputs is 9 April 2024.

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has published its Opinion on Meta’s draft reference offer for WhatsApp interoperability. Meta has been designated as a gatekeeper under the EU Digital Markets Act (EU DMA) for its number-independent interpersonal communication services WhatsApp and Messenger. As such, it will be required to provide interoperability with these services pursuant to Article 7, EU DMA. In its Opinion, BEREC gave concrete proposals and insights on how to improve the draft document including a recommendation to make user consent discoverable should be explicitly given (opt-in) and to make the complete reference offer publicly available and easy-to-be-found on the gatekeeper’s website among others.

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has published two draft reports on machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and permanent roaming and the IP interconnection (IP-IC) ecosystem. The first report monitors the evolution of market M2M communications and permanent roaming, formed by stakeholders’ contributions to a consultation which concluded in January 2024. The second report assesses the current status of the IP-IC ecosystem and market developments since previous BEREC reports.  The report focuses on the period from early 2017 to autumn 2023, and analyses the trends from 2023 to 2030.

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has published an early assessment of the European Commission’s proposed Digital Networks Act (DNA), broadly welcoming its ambition to modernise the EU regulatory framework for connectivity and support resilient, sustainable and high-quality digital networks. It supports the updated policy objectives, including resilience and sustainability and recognises the aim of strengthening the internal market and competitiveness of the EU digital sector, while emphasising that this depends on maintaining an effective competition framework.

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has published a number of new reports which focus on topics including Member States’ best practices to support adequate broadband internet access services, 2G/3G phaseout practices and challenges and current cybersecurity challenges and dependencies in electronic communication networks (ECNs). BEREC has also published a number of draft reports including a draft report on the entry of large content and application providers into the markets for ECNs and services and a draft report on Cloud and Edge computing services.

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has released its Opinion on Meta’s reference offer published in March 2024 to facilitate WhatsApp interoperability under Article 7 of the EU Digital Markets Act (EU DMA). This follows a formal request from the European Commission in January 2024 as, under the EU DMA, the Commission had designated six undertakings as gatekeepers for a number of core platform services. Among those, Meta had been designated regarding its number-independent interpersonal communication services (NI-ICS) WhatsApp and Messenger. Meta therefore had been required to provide interoperability with these services. Gatekeepers were required to comply with the EU DMA obligations on 7 March 2024. On that date, Meta published the reference offer to allow for WhatsApp interoperability. The Opinion also provides specific comments on Meta’s reference offer for WhatsApp interoperability, following the list of minimum criteria for the reference offer presented in the BEREC report on the interoperability of NI-ICS.

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has launched consultations to gather inputs on the IP interconnecion (IP-IC) ecosystem, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and the EU general authorisation regime. These consultations come following the BEREC's publicatons of the draft reports in these areas. The deadline to provide feedback to the IP-IC ecosystem and general authorisation regime consultations is 26 July 2024 and the M2M consultation deadline is 23 August 2024.

The (former) Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform which was a UK government department created in 2007 responsible for company law, trade, energy, business growth, employment law, regional economic development and consumer law. BERR was disbanded in June 2009 and succeeded by BIS.

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The European Consumer Organisation's (BEUC) eight consumer groups have filed complaints with their national Data Protection Authorities against Meta for not adhering to the principles of fair processing, data minimisation and purpose limitation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR). Meta does not have a valid legal basis to justify the massive collection of data it takes from Facebook and Instagram users, as users can not freely give informed consent. Meta's illegal practices, fuels the surveillance-based ads system that tracks consumers online and collects a significant amount of personal data to show them adverts to make profit.

The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) and 12 of its member organisations have filed a complaint with the European Commission and European consumer protection authorities against ENGIE, Eni Plenitude, Shell and TotalEnergies regarding alleged misleading environmental claims in the marketing of energy products. BEUC argues that the practices may breach EU consumer protection laws and has called on authorities to require the companies to cease using the claims, monitor compliance and impose penalties where appropriate.