Business Software Alliance

BSA

The Business Sofware Alliance is the leading advocate for the global software industry before governments and in the international marketplace.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Digital Networks Act

11 Jul 2025

Response to Cloud and AI Development Act

2 Jul 2025

Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Acting Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and

26 Jun 2025 · Business Software Alliance and its members consultation on the EU’s upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act.

Meeting with Bernd Lange (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

25 Jun 2025 · General exchange of views

Meeting with Ann-Sofie Ronnlund (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva)

23 Jun 2025 · Intellectual property rights

Meeting with Pablo Arias Echeverría (Member of the European Parliament)

14 May 2025 · Regulatory development of software and AI

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

6 May 2025 · Copyright and generative AI

Meeting with Gabriel Mato (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Feb 2025 · Meeting with BSA

Meeting with Ioan-Dragos Tudorache (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

6 Feb 2025 · Challenges for transatlantic cooperation and exchange on the Commission’s plans related to digital policies

Meeting with Dan Barna (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Feb 2025 · Current and upcoming files in INTA committee, the future of data flows and digital trade

Meeting with Kilian Gross (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

4 Feb 2025 · AI Act Implementation

Meeting with Kosma Złotowski (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

4 Feb 2025 · Adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence

Meeting with Ilhan Kyuchyuk (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Jan 2025 · Europe's digital Agenda

Meeting with Henrik Dahl (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

11 Dec 2024 · AI Liability

Meeting with Verena Mertens (Member of the European Parliament) and Verband Deutscher Büchsenmacher und Waffenfachhändler

3 Dec 2024 · Introductory Meeting

Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament) and QUALCOMM Incorporated

3 Dec 2024 · EU digital strategy

Meeting with Francisco Assis (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Oct 2024 · discuss the challenges and opportunities for software industry and its impact on European Competitiveness and businesses.

Meeting with Angelika Winzig (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Oct 2024 · Meeting with a representative of BSA

Meeting with Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament) and

3 Oct 2024 · Current Affairs

Meeting with Isabel Wiseler-Lima (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Oct 2024 · Challenges and opportunities for the software industry

Meeting with Laura Ballarín Cereza (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Sept 2024 · Digital priorities for the mandate 2024-2029

Meeting with Eva Maydell (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

9 Apr 2024 · AI Act

Meeting with Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

20 Mar 2024 · AI and Data policy

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

20 Mar 2024 · the intersection between Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

11 Oct 2023 · AI Act

Meeting with Geneviève Tuts (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders), Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)

11 Oct 2023 · Data protection

Meeting with Dragoş Tudorache (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Palo Alto Networks Inc.

10 Oct 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

20 Apr 2023 · Product Liability Directive

Meeting with Pascal Arimont (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

11 Apr 2023 · Revision of the Product Liability Directive

Meeting with René Repasi (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Orgalim – Europe's Technology Industries

5 Apr 2023 · Exchange of views on the Product Liability Directive/ Produkthaftungsrichtlinie (PLD) - Staff Level

Meeting with Krzysztof Hetman (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

30 Mar 2023 · Exchange of views on Product Liability Directive (meeting delegated to parliamentary assistant)

Meeting with Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

21 Feb 2023 · Meeting on the AI Act (meeting held by the Assistant responsible)

Meeting with Henna Virkkunen (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

26 Jan 2023 · EU Cyber Resilience Act

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

7 Dec 2022 · EU’s Digital package

Meeting with Alin Mituța (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and International Road Transport Union Permanent Delegation to the EU

19 Sept 2022 · Data Act

Meeting with Maria da Graça Carvalho (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion) and Orgalim – Europe's Technology Industries

31 Aug 2022 · Data Act

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Dec 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

25 Feb 2021 · E-commerce

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Feb 2021 · AI for Euope

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

1 Dec 2020 · Artificial Intelligence, Data Strategy, Digital sovereignty

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

11 May 2020 · Introductory phone discussion on BSA concerns about privacy, security and IPR in the future

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

4 Mar 2020 · AI White paper and the European Data Strategy

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner), Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and

27 Jun 2019 · Privacy Shield

Meeting with Fredrik Beckvid Tranchell (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

26 Jun 2019 · Digital Trade Agenda

Meeting with Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

21 Mar 2019 · e-evidence

Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

17 Oct 2018 · Copyright

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

20 Sept 2018 · GDPR, privacy shield, e-privacy

Meeting with Rodrigo Ballester (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

13 Jun 2018 · Victoria Espinel would like to engage with senior EU policy makers on AI, the privacy shield review, data flows in trade agreements and e-evidence

Meeting with Julie Ruff (Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King)

13 Jun 2018 · Cybersecurity

Meeting with Vivian Loonela (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

1 Feb 2018 · Cybersecurity

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

30 Jan 2018 · GDPR, e-privacy

Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska), Tomasz Husak (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska) and The German Marshall Fund of the United States - The Transatlantic Foundation

17 Oct 2017 · Transatlantic Digital Policy . Other participants: 4 Members of US Congress and their Congressional Staff

Meeting with Julian King (Commissioner)

19 Jun 2017 · Cybersecurity and encryption

Meeting with Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

13 Jun 2017 · Digital Transformation of the DSM, Free Flow of Data

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

24 May 2017 · GDPR Implementation and Privacy Shield

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

19 Dec 2016 · Discussion with industry on general data protection regulation implementation

Meeting with Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

8 Dec 2016 · Free flow of data, data protection

Meeting with Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

7 Dec 2016 · Privacy Shield

Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

6 Dec 2016 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy) and

27 Sept 2016 · DSM

Meeting with Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

20 Sept 2016 · startups, data, international

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

30 Jun 2016 · Privacy shield, data protection

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy) and

3 May 2016 · DSM

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and

25 Feb 2016 · EU-US Privacy Shield

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy) and

23 Feb 2016 · DSM

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

8 Feb 2016 · EU-US Privacy Shield

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

14 Oct 2015 · Meeting with tech businesses after Safe Harbour ruling

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy) and

14 Jul 2015 · DSM

Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

11 May 2015 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

24 Mar 2015 · DSM action plan, cybersecurity, data flows and intellectual property rights

Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

24 Mar 2015 · WEF, DSM

Meeting with Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

24 Mar 2015 · DSM action plan, cybersecurity, data flows and intellectual rights

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy) and

20 Jan 2015 · Digital Agenda