BRUSSELS – The Business Software Alliance (BSA) welcomes today’s publication of the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus Package, including the general Digital Omnibus and the Digital Omnibus on AI. The proposals represent a constructive first step toward addressing many of the concerns raised by BSA and industry about the growing fragmentation, overlap, and complexity of the EU’s digital rulebook.

The Digital Omnibus package responds to long-standing industry calls for clearer definitions, streamlined cybersecurity reporting obligations, and better alignment between key digital laws. Measures such as one single data law (the ‘Data Act’), additional flexibility on cloud switching, increased safeguards on trade secrets in the Data Act, or an upcoming Single-Entry Point for cyber incident reporting under various legislations all represent welcome progress toward reducing fragmentation in the EU’s digital rulebook.

BSA also particularly welcomes the pragmatic adjustments introduced in the Digital Omnibus on AI, including linking high-risk AI provisions’ timelines to the availability of standards, or allowing processing of special-category data for bias mitigation. These are constructive improvements that support responsible AI development and deployment.

“These proposals send a positive signal that the EU is committed to reducing unnecessary complexity and supporting innovation,” said Thomas Boué, General Director, Policy – EMEA, BSA. “The Commission has taken important steps to streamline obligations and provide more predictable implementation pathways. At the same time, further refinement will be needed to ensure that Europe’s digital framework is truly coherent, proportionate, and workable for enterprise software providers across all Member States.”

Today’s package is only the first step, as the EU Parliament and the Council will now have a say on the proposal. BSA will now conduct a thorough analysis of the proposed measures and their implications for the enterprise software industry and will share detailed feedback with EU policymakers and its members in the coming days to ensure that these improvements remain in the final texts.

Moreover, BSA welcomes the Commission’s willingness to look at further simplification efforts, through its ongoing digital fitness checks and review of the existing legislation list, with the aim of further simplifying the EU digital rulebook.

“Simplification is a journey,” Boué added, “and today’s proposals move us in the right direction. We encourage the co-legislators to continue pursuing clarity, proportionality, and alignment across the entire digital ecosystem".