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Mozilla develops Firefox web browser and promotes openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Birgit Sippel (Member of the European Parliament) and European Digital Rights and

4 Dec 2025 · Digital Omnibus & Privacy: From Simplification to Smart Regulation Policy Breakfast

Mozilla Calls for EU Ban on System-Level Manipulative Design

24 Oct 2025
Topic — A fitness check on consumer protection laws regarding digital design and personalization.
Message — Mozilla recommends outlawing harmful designs at the system level and shifting the burden of proof onto platforms. They advocate for a single EU Regulation with centralized enforcement to ensure cross-border consistency.123
Why — Eliminating architectural dark patterns would allow Mozilla's software to compete on quality rather than manipulation.45
Impact — Large tech firms lose the ability to exploit regulatory gaps between Member States.67
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Meeting with Sergey Lagodinsky (Member of the European Parliament)

15 May 2025 · Exchange of Views

Meeting with Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Feb 2025 · Competition

Meeting with Egelyn Braun (Cabinet of Commissioner Michael McGrath)

4 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on consumer protection

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)

3 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on the role open source and open standards can play in fueling Europe’s competitiveness and growth ambitions, fair competition in the AI space as well as effective enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)

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

3 Feb 2025 · Mozilla position in EU policy

Meeting with Aura Salla (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Nov 2024 · Training data transparency and AI

Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Nov 2024 · Digital policies: advertising, Mozilla priorities and changes at company

Mozilla urges proportionate DSA reporting to protect smaller platforms

23 Jan 2024
Topic — Draft rules setting mandatory templates for content moderation transparency reports under the DSA.
Message — Mozilla recommends allowing smaller platforms to use broader reporting categories to simplify the process. They also suggest adding descriptive explanations to clarify automated moderation terms and organizational decision-making processes.12
Why — Smaller platforms avoid high compliance costs that currently require hiring several full-time employees.3
Impact — Dominant platforms could consolidate market power if high compliance costs block smaller competitors.4
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Meeting with Alejandro Cainzos (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)

11 Oct 2023 · Artificial intelligence Act and international cooperation on Artificial intelligence

Meeting with Mikuláš Peksa (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

18 Jan 2023 · European digital identity

Meeting with Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Pierre-Arnaud Proux (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and Hill Knowlton International Belgium

19 Oct 2022 · eIDAS Regulation (Digital Identity Wallet)

Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Sept 2022 · Digital Services Act implementation

Meeting with Alin Mituța (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

14 Jun 2022 · European Digital Identity proposal (eID)

Meeting with Karen Melchior (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

24 May 2022 · European Digital Identity

Meeting with Kim Van Sparrentak (Member of the European Parliament)

19 May 2022 · AI

Meeting with Alin Mituța (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

14 Feb 2022 · Discussion on art.45 from the eID proposal

Meeting with Karen Melchior (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

7 Feb 2022 · European Digital Identity

Meeting with Marcel Kolaja (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

1 Feb 2022 · discussion on the provisions of the European Digital Identity framework (eIDAS revision), especially on qualified certificates for website authentication (the revised eIDAS article 45)

Meeting with Cristian Terheş (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

11 Jan 2022 · eIDAS file parliamentary activity

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

8 Oct 2021 · Digital Services Act, eIDAS

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

29 Sept 2021 · Platforms regulations

Mozilla Warns EU Digital Identity Proposal Threatens Web Security

2 Sept 2021
Topic — Revision of the eIDAS Regulation to create a European Digital Identity framework.
Message — Mozilla urges the European Union to amend Article 45 to ensure web browsers are not forced to accept certificates from providers that fail to meet rigorous security standards. They argue that the current draft mandates the automatic inclusion of Trusted Service Providers in browser root programs, undermining independent security vetting.12
Why — This protects Mozilla's ability to independently maintain high security standards and block potentially compromised or untrustworthy certificate authorities.34
Impact — EU citizens face higher risks of cyberattacks and data interception if browsers are forced to trust less-secure providers.56
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Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

30 Apr 2021 · AI and law enforcement

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament) and Stockholms universitet and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

27 Jan 2021 · AI and the Green Deal

Meeting with Daniel Braun (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)

19 Jan 2021 · EDAP, Code of Practice

Meeting with Daniel Braun (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)

29 Oct 2020 · Mozilla Mornings - EDAP and advertising transparency

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President) and Google and

23 Jul 2020 · Covid disinformation, EDAP

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President) and

27 Mar 2020 · Disinformation/COVID-19

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

5 Feb 2020 · Platform regulation

Meeting with Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

5 Dec 2019 · Competition policy

Meeting with Ulrik Trolle Smed (Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King)

2 May 2019 · Cyber security

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and

1 Feb 2019 · GDPR, Hate speech, Diisinformation

Meeting with Julie Ruff (Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King)

25 Nov 2018 · Cybersecurity

Meeting with Friedrich Wenzel Bulst (Cabinet of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager)

14 Nov 2018 · Digitisation and competition policy

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

24 Oct 2018 · Open data, P2B

Meeting with Daniel Braun (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

12 Jul 2018 · Code of Conduct, Fight against terrorist content online

Response to Measures to further improve the effectiveness of the fight against illegal content online

23 Mar 2018

Mozilla is a global community working together to build a better internet. As a mission-driven organization, we are dedicated to promoting openness, innovation, and opportunity online. We are the creators of Firefox, an open source browser that over 70 million Europeans use as their window to the web. For many years Mozilla has sought to lead the way in developing an internet that promotes human dignity, civil discourse, individual expression and collaborative problem-solving. Our products, policies, and processes embody these principles. In that context, we are uniquely placed to provide thoughtful input in the ongoing discussions in Brussels and beyond on how to manage the harms of illegal content online within a rights-protective framework. Ultimately, illegal content on the web – and substandard policy and industry responses to it – undermine the overall health of the internet and as such, are a core concern for Mozilla. In the attached paper, we will provide comment on the recently-launched inception impact assessment (IIA), and insight on how the European Commission can develop a robust, future-proof framework for a safe internet experience for European users. We will proceed by firstly providing a clear framing for the policy issue at hand, after which we will provide comment on the positive and problematic substantives of the recent IIA. Finally, we will offer some details that should be considered in the Commission’s ongoing and upcoming policy initiatives around illegal content online. In the short term, we recommend that the European Commission withhold any new regulatory action until its renewed political mandate in 2019 (‘baseline option’), to allow for proper analysis of the effectiveness of ongoing initiatives and to provide greater time to develop an ambitious future-proof framework for tackling illegal content in Europe. Mozilla will continue to constructively engaging on this initiative and related ones, to ensure the internet remains an empowering and integral part of modern life for all.
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Meeting with Eric Peters (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

7 Mar 2018 · Digital Single Market, Online Platforms and Competition

Meeting with Julie Ruff (Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King)

10 Oct 2017 · Cyber security

Meeting with Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

10 Oct 2017 · ePrivacy, Copyright

Meeting with Markus Schulte (Digital Economy)

20 Oct 2015 · DSM

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

6 Oct 2015 · Copyright