Commentary on the Digital Omnibus in ZD Aktuell
The Digital Omnibus is a legislative package from the European Union designed to simplify, harmonize, and reduce the bureaucracy of existing digital regulations such as the GDPR, the AI Act, the Data Act, and cybersecurity regulations.
The goal is to eliminate overlaps and contradictions between the various EU digital laws in order to make implementation easier for companies, especially SMEs, and to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness.
The PriDI team participated in the public consultation launched by the European Commission.
Together with colleagues from the Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG), Christian Geminn, Paul Johannes, and Charlotte Werther provided comments on the European Commission’s so-called Digital Omnibus.
The series begins with an overview by Christian Geminn and Paul Johannes. Paul Johannes also comments on the proposed amendment to the definition of personal data (Art. 4(1) GDPR) and the revised rules on automated decision-making (Art. 22 GDPR-DigOM-Com). Charlotte Werther examines the proposed changes to the GDPR in the area of research (Art. 4(38), Art. 5(1)(b), and Art. 13 of the GDPR) and the planned changes to the obligation to provide information (Art. 13(4) of the GDPR, DigOM-KomE).
The commentary is published in Issue 23 of the news service of the German journal *ZD-Aktuell 2025* (access requires a user account and a subscription).
Paul Christopher Johannes is a business lawyer and research assistant at the Institute for Constitutionally Compatible Technology Design at the University of Kassel. As part of the PriDI project, he is supporting research on the legally compliant design of an open web index for Europe.
