# Commission work programme 2025 + Annex Canonical URL: https://digital-acquis.eu/strategy/commission-work-programme-2025-annex Entry type: strategy Source edition current through: 17 July 2026 (2026-07-17). This is not a page modification date. Status: not recorded. A delivered initiative is not necessarily legislation in force. Document type: Policy Plan (Commission) Release date: 2025-02-11 ## Summary The 2025 work programme brings together planned legislation and policy strategies covering competitiveness, the Single Market and industrial transition. Its programme includes measures on affordable energy, startups and scaleups, savings and investment, and business simplification. Digital priorities span AI, quantum technology, electronic communications, business wallets and the space sector. The programme also identifies work on defence, preparedness, internal security and hospital cybersecurity. Skills, quality jobs, consumer protection and democratic resilience sit alongside these economic and technological measures. Each listed initiative carries an indicative timetable, and the programme distinguishes legislative proposals from non-legislative plans. ## Sources - [Official source]() - [Annex]() ## Action items (25; complete published list) ### 1. Action item 60001 Competitiveness Compass (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 1. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 2. Action item 60002 Single Market Strategy (non-legislative, Q2 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 2. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 3. Action item 60003 Third Omnibus package, including on small mid-caps and removal of paper requirements (legislative, Q2 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 3. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 4. Action item 60004 Digital package (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Q4 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 4. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 5. Action item 60005 European Business Wallet (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Article 114 TFEU, Q4 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 5. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 6. Action item 60006 Clean Industrial Deal (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 6. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 7. Action item 60007 Action plan on affordable energy (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 7. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 8. Action item 60008 Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Article 114 TFEU, Q4 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 8. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 9. Action item 60009 EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy (non-legislative, Q2 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 9. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 10. Action item 60010 Communication on a Savings and Investments Union (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 10. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 11. Action item 60011 Digital Networks Act (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Article 114 TFEU, Q4 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 11. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 12. Action item 60012 AI Continent Action Plan (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 12. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 13. Action item 60013 Quantum Strategy of EU (non-legislative, Q2 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 13. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 14. Action item 60014 EU Space Act (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Article 114 TFEU, Q2 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 14. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 15. Action item 60015 Bioeconomy Strategy (non-legislative or legislative, Q4 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 15. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 16. Action item 60016 White Paper on the Future of European Defence (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 16. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 17. Action item 60017 EU Preparedness Union Strategy (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 17. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 18. Action item 60018 New European Internal Security Strategy (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 18. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 19. Action item 60019 Action plan on the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 19. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 20. Action item 60020 Quality jobs roadmap (non-legislative, Q4 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 20. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 21. Action item 60021 Union of Skills (non-legislative, Q1 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 21. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 22. Action item 60022 2030 Consumer Agenda, including an action plan for consumers in the Single Market (non-legislative, Q4 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 22. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 23. Action item 60023 European Democracy Shield (non-legislative, Q3 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 23. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 24. Action item 60024 Pact for the Mediterranean (non-legislative, Q3 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 24. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 25. Action item 60025 Joint Communication on a new Strategic EU-India Agenda (non-legislative, Q2 2025) Provenance: source document doc-005, paragraph 25. Digital dimension: not recorded. ## Referenced entries - [Competitiveness Compass]() — status: not recorded. The Competitiveness Compass brings together work on innovation, industrial transition and the conditions for businesses to grow in Europe. Its agenda spans startups, strategic technologies, research and investment, alongside affordable energy, cleaner industry and circular production. Measures on the Single Market, simpler rules, procurement and standardisation accompany this sectoral work. The programme also includes trade partnerships, raw-material supplies, security and preparedness. Skills, labour mobility and quality jobs connect the economic agenda with workforce needs. The programme combines strategies, legislative proposals, investment initiatives and coordination measures across these policy areas. Source document doc-005, action item 60001: > Competitiveness Compass (non-legislative, Q1 2025) - [Clean Industrial Deal]() — status: not recorded. The Clean Industrial Deal connects industrial decarbonisation with affordable energy, investment and demand for cleaner products. Its measures address electricity costs, permitting, grid infrastructure, state aid and finance for industrial projects. Product standards, procurement and support for circular production are intended to strengthen markets for low-carbon goods and access to raw materials. The programme also covers trade partnerships and changes to the carbon border mechanism. Skills, quality jobs and measures supporting a fair transition accompany the industrial agenda, linking changes in production with the needs of workers and communities. Source document doc-005, action item 60006: > Clean Industrial Deal (non-legislative, Q1 2025) - [AI Continent Action Plan]() — status: not recorded. The AI Continent Action Plan combines computing infrastructure, access to data, wider AI use and skills development. It proposes AI Factories and Gigafactories, linked data labs and support for European data spaces, alongside work on cloud infrastructure. Industrial and scientific adoption would be supported through the Apply AI and AI in Science strategies, research funding and innovation hubs. The plan also addresses startup financing, access to markets and the attraction and training of AI talent. An AI Act Service Desk and consultation on regulatory challenges are intended to help organisations understand and meet their obligations. Source document doc-005, action item 60012: > AI Continent Action Plan (non-legislative, Q1 2025) - [Single Market Strategy]() — status: not recorded. The Single Market Strategy addresses obstacles to operating, trading and working across EU borders. It combines simplification and stronger implementation with changes to company rules, public procurement, product regulation and services. Digital procedures, common standards and better recognition of qualifications are intended to reduce fragmentation. The strategy also covers worker mobility, construction and business services, communications networks and transport. Measures for SMEs and small mid-caps seek to make compliance more proportionate and improve access to markets and finance. Cooperation with national authorities and potential changes to preventive and enforcement tools support the wider programme. Source document doc-005, action item 60002: > Single Market Strategy (non-legislative, Q2 2025) - [Startup and Scaleup Strategy]() — status: not recorded. The strategy aims to make it easier for innovative companies to start, grow and operate across Europe. It combines simpler company rules and digital administration with better access to finance, markets, talent and research infrastructure. Proposed measures include the 28th regime, the European Business Wallet, regulatory sandboxes and support for deep-tech investment. Work on research commercialisation, intellectual property and procurement is intended to help ideas reach customers. Talent initiatives address education, mobility and recruitment, while common definitions, a scoreboard and an annual founder survey would track changes in the startup and scaleup environment. Source document doc-005, action item 60009: > EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy (non-legislative, Q2 2025) - [2030 Consumer Agenda]() — status: not recorded. The 2030 Consumer Agenda addresses access to the Single Market, protection in digital markets and more effective enforcement of consumer rights. Its measures cover cross-border services, financial literacy, digital identity, roaming and travel. A proposed Digital Fairness Act and action on online fraud would tackle harmful commercial practices, with particular attention to minors. The agenda also supports product durability, repair and the green transition. Stronger cooperation between consumer authorities, customs and market-surveillance bodies, together with updated product rules and digital investigation tools, is intended to improve compliance and product safety, including for imports sold online. Source document doc-005, action item 60022: > 2030 Consumer Agenda, including an action plan for consumers in the Single Market (non-legislative, Q4 2025) - [Quality Jobs Roadmap]() — status: not recorded. Source document doc-005, action item 60020: > Quality jobs roadmap (non-legislative, Q4 2025) - [EU Bioeconomy Strategy]() — status: delivered. The EU Bioeconomy Strategy combines regulatory, investment and market actions to support sustainable and circular bio-based activity. The Commission plans work on biotechnology, construction-product standards, biomass monitoring, bio-based plastics, public procurement, biogas and biomethane, and industrial symbiosis. It will also establish forums and investment arrangements, support blue-bioeconomy innovation, provide practical guidance for land managers, and pursue international cooperation, stakeholder dialogue and EU-wide monitoring. Source document doc-005, action item 60015: > Bioeconomy Strategy (non-legislative or legislative, Q4 2025) - [Action Plan on Affordable Energy]() — status: delivered. The Affordable Energy Action Plan seeks to lower energy costs while supporting competitiveness, security and sustainability for households and businesses. Its actions cover electricity bills and supply, gas markets, energy efficiency, completion of the Energy Union, tripartite agreements for industry, security of supply and price-crisis preparedness. The Commission presented the plan as part of the Clean Industrial Deal, and says delivery also depends on measures by EU countries. Source document doc-005, action item 60007: > Action plan on affordable energy (non-legislative, Q1 2025) - [Digital Networks Act (DNA)]() — status: in progress. This law will build a true Single Market for connectivity by harmonising authorisations and spectrum policy, enabling cross-border services and a coordinated path to 6G. It modernises the telecom rulebook to spur investment in fibre, 5G and cloud/edge networks, integrates satellite services, and tackles market fragmentation that keeps Europe split into various national markets. It will streamline permits, clarify open-internet rules for innovative services, support copper switch-off and cloud-based network transformation, and target up to a 50% reduction in reporting burdens. A stronger EU governance model will replace patchwork oversight, boosting resilience, security and scale for operators and users. Source document doc-005, action item 60011: > Digital Networks Act (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Article 114 TFEU, Q4 2025) - [EU Space Act]() — status: in progress. The law will establish a single, harmonised regulatory framework for the safety, resilience, and environmental sustainability of space activities across the Union. It aims to overcome the fragmentation caused by 13 divergent national space laws across Europe, ensuring a predictable internal market for space services and space-based data. The Act introduces uniform authorisation and registration rules, tailored cybersecurity and debris-mitigation obligations, and a common environmental footprint methodology. By providing legal certainty and reducing regulatory complexity, it will strengthen the competitiveness of EU space operators, foster innovation in the New Space sector, and position Europe as a global standard-setter in space governance. Source document doc-005, action item 60014: > EU Space Act (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Article 114 TFEU, Q2 2025) - [Savings and Investments Union (SIU)]() — status: in progress. The Savings and Investments Union programme seeks to increase retail participation, channel savings into productive investment and strengthen EU capital markets. It includes a blueprint and tax recommendation for savings and investment accounts, a financial-literacy strategy, pension measures and measures on institutional equity investment. Further work covers venture and growth capital, cross-border investment barriers, trading and post-trading rules, supervision, banking integration and a mid-term review. Source document doc-005, action item 60010: > Communication on a Savings and Investments Union (non-legislative, Q1 2025) - [Union of Skills]() — status: delivered. Union of Skills measures span basic education, digital learning, science and technology education, vocational training, higher education and labour-market mobility. The programme lists action on basic skills, a Skills Guarantee, skills academies, university-business partnerships, portability and recognition of qualifications, a European degree or label, and talent attraction. Its timetable includes pilots, strategies, frameworks and legal arrangements. Source document doc-005, action item 60021: > Union of Skills (non-legislative, Q1 2025) - [European Business Wallet]() — status: in progress. It will provide a legally recognised digital identity for economic operators, enabling companies to share verified data and credentials across borders and receive notifications in a secure channel. Built on BRIS and the European Unique Identifier, and aligned with the EU Digital Identity Wallet rollout and the Once-Only Technical System, it replaces document-heavy compliance with interoperable, data-based exchanges. The Wallet is a cornerstone of the Single Market simplification agenda and the EU Startup & Scaleup Strategy, lowering costs for SMEs, easing licensing and reporting, and making cross-border operations seamless, turning digital-by-default rules into practice across the EU business lifecycle. Source document doc-005, action item 60005: > European Business Wallet (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Article 114 TFEU, Q4 2025) - [Action Plan on the Cybersecurity of Hospitals and Healthcare Providers]() — status: delivered. Healthcare cybersecurity action is centred on a European Cybersecurity Support Centre, sector-specific guidance, maturity assessment and incident-response support. Planned measures include a rapid-response service in the EU Cybersecurity Reserve, a Health Cybersecurity Advisory Board, a network of health CISOs, cyber exercises and a ransomware recovery subscription service. The plan also covers cyber hygiene, threat intelligence, procurement guidance, training, regulatory mapping and international cooperation. Source document doc-005, action item 60019: > Action plan on the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers (non-legislative, Q1 2025) - [European Democracy Shield]() — status: delivered. It will harden democratic resilience by combining early detection of foreign information manipulation, coordinated analysis and rapid response across the Union. A new European Centre for Democratic Resilience will pool national expertise and capacities as the hub for monitoring, attribution and joint action with partners. The Shield will leverage the EU’s FIMI toolbox and the Digital Services Act, expand media- and digital-literacy efforts, and strengthen crisis communication to counter disinformation systematically. It complements a forthcoming Media Resilience Programme supporting independent journalism, and is anchored in upgrades to EU internal-security governance. Work will also address harmful social-media design and youth well-being through expert advice on safeguards and enforcement. Source document doc-005, action item 60023: > European Democracy Shield (non-legislative, Q3 2025) - [New Strategic EU-India Agenda]() — status: delivered. Europe have tabled a Strategic EU–India Agenda that elevates the partnership across five pillars: prosperity, technology, security, connectivity and enablers. It prioritises concluding an FTA and an Investment Protection Agreement, alongside Global Gateway investments and supply-chain de-risking via the EU–India TTC (chips, solar, APIs). It deepens digital cooperation (e.g. trusted data flows, secure 5G/6G and interoperable digital public infrastructures) and expands joint R&I in AI, HPC/quantum and space. A Security and Defence Partnership with a Security of Information Agreement will underpin maritime, cyber and hybrid resilience. Delivery will be steered by an annual summit, upgraded TTC, and an EU–India Business Forum. Source document doc-005, action item 60025: > Joint Communication on a new Strategic EU-India Agenda (non-legislative, Q2 2025) ## Current developments Latest updates from Digital Policy Alert and Global Trade Alert. 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