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 Omnibus revising several legislative acts in view of regulatory simplification
14 Oct 2025
Response to Communication on a Strategy for a European Data Union
17 Jul 2025
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
Response to Apply AI Strategy: strengthening the AI continent
27 May 2025
Response to A strategy for strengthening the EU’s leadership in global digital affairs
20 May 2025
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
Response to WHITE PAPER How to master Europe's digital infrastructure needs?
27 Jun 2024
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
Response to Regulation establishing a framework for the use of data in the EU
25 Jun 2021
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
Response to Legislative framework for the governance of common European data spaces
31 Jul 2020
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
Response to Legislative proposal on access to electronic evidence in criminal investigations
30 Aug 2017
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