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Business Clinic: Must I give mobile operator survey access? Paul Williams 29 April 2021 >More in
Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue,
Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Paul Williams of Carter Jonas advises on how to handle an access approach from a mobile phone operator.
Q. I have been approached by an agent for a mobile telecoms operator wanting to access my land for a survey.
I do not have a telecoms mast currently, but they say that they have “code rights” to access my land. What does this mean and, if so, is there anything I need to be aware of?
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For many years, the regulation of digital markets has been a key
priority in Europe. In 2015, the European Commission committed the
EU to the creation of a digital single market - and that commitment
spawned a series of diverse initiatives and regulatory changes
affecting providers and users of digital goods and services. Even
between EU Member States, the standard of digital regulation has
varied-and continues to vary-with many issues being left to local
implementation. And, in 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU (with
1. Getting Europe ready for the digital age: updates to the proposed Digital Services Act
The dynamic double-team is arriving! In December 2020, the European Commission published two headline proposed pieces of legislation designed to implement the EU’s digital strategy. Together, the Digital Services Act (
DSA) and Digital Markets Act (see more details below) are intended to create a safer digital space and to establish a level playing field to foster innovation and growth both in the EU and globally.
The DSA, as one half of this legislative package, will focus on the regulation of digital services providers, or “intermediaries.” It seeks to address the dominance of “very large” platforms (those reaching over 10% of the 450 million consumers in Europe) and the accountability of companies for third-party content. Breaches of the DSA may attract one-off fines of up to 6% of annual global turnover or periodic penalty payments of a maximum of 5% of average daily turnover.
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