Berichte

US: Trade Disciplines on Technical Barriers to Digital Trade

JAN. 30, 2023 | US | POSITION PAPER

This paper identifies the challenges to US interests arising from the application of country- or region-specific technical requirements or standards (sometimes mandated via conformity assessment procedures or other means) to services that are delivered or performed electronically (“digitally enabled services”). It also proposes possible solutions to this challenge and introduces several draft trade agreement provisions.

AI Trade

BSA’s Global Sustainability Principles

DEZ. 06, 2022 | GLOBAL | POSITION PAPER

BSA and its members have worked to develop Global Sustainability Principles that outline how the enterprise software industry is working on sustainability and climate resilience.

Trade

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EU: BSA Recommendations on the EU Cyber-Resilience Act (CRA)

NOV. 01, 2022 | EUROPEAN UNION | EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA | POSITION PAPER

BSA welcomes the EU Commission’s overall objective in its proposal on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (EU Cyber-Resilience Act, hereafter “CRA”).

Open Data

Cross-Border Data

US: BSA 2022 State Legislative Summaries - Platform Regulation

AUG. 22, 2022 | US | POSITION PAPER

In 2022, 80 percent of state legislatures explored social media or platform regulation legislation. Additionally, there was a 70 percent increase in the volume of bills from 2021 to 2022 and the number of bill enactments climbed from 2 in 2021 to 13 in 2022. The vast majority of those new laws are related to third-party sellers on online marketplaces.

State Advocacy

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US: BSA 2022 State Legislative Summaries - Digital Transformation

AUG. 22, 2022 | US | POSITION PAPER

Digital transformation bills continued to influence state chambers across the country. More than three quarters of state legislatures considered some digital transformation legislation in 2022, ranging from remote online notarization to open data to cloud computing.

State Advocacy

Procurement

US: BSA 2022 State Legislative Summaries - Artificial Intelligence

AUG. 22, 2022 | US | POSITION PAPER

Tremendous advances in AI are quickly transforming expectations about how the technology may reshape the world. However, the majority of state and local bills focused on a narrow subset of AI use cases involving law enforcement and facial recognition.

State Advocacy