The complexity of EU laws and regulation for the digital world has been growing with dizzying speed. That’s why CEPS has been publishing a series of datasets to help experts and policymakers hack their way through the thicket of new EU laws. This new legislative dataset provides:
- a curated list of the 20 most essential EU digital laws and regulations (table 1); and
- a curated list of some of the most important EU digital strategy documents (table 2).
It corresponds to the status quo as of September 2025 and is a complement to our July 2025 Dataset of EU Legal and Policy Instruments for the Digital World. We intend to include updated versions of these new tables in future editions of the larger dataset, which will be published on an as-needed basis, typically twice per year.
About the Authors
Kai Zenner is Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser for MEP Axel Voss (EPP) in the European Parliament. He is ‘Fellow of Practice’ at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Member of the OECD.AI Network of Experts and Member of the ‘AI Governance Alliance’ at the World Economic Forum.
J. Scott Marcus is an economist, engineer and public policy analyst. He is an Associate Senior Research Fellow in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy (GRID) Unit at CEPS and a Professor (part-time) and member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre for a Digital Society, European University Institute (EUI / RSCAS). He also works as an independent consultant dealing with (regulatory) policy regarding electronic communications.