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• CENTR elects three new members to its Board of Directors

  2020-02-17 News

  CENTR is delighted to announce that last week, during its 63rd General Assembly in Ljubljana, members elected three new members to the CENTR Board of Directors: Barbara Povše (Register.si), Philip Du Bois (DNS Belgium) and David Fowler (CIRA). They join Danny Aerts (Internetstiftelsen) and Hilde Thunem (Norid) who were elected on 22 March 2019. Barbara was also elected Chair of the Board.

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• EU Policy Update - January 2020

  2020-02-07 EU Policy Updates

  In a nutshell: Croatia took over the presidency in the Council of the EU from 1 January 2020. The European Commission's 2020 Work Programme identifies which legislative and policy initiatives the Commission plans to put forward in the course of 2020, including the new consumer agenda and the review of the NIS Directive. Commissioner Reynders urges the European Parliament to advance on e-Evidence. Three European Parliament committees received competence for own-initiative reports on the Digital Services Act. Europol released the EU Digital Evidence Situation Report. The European Court of Justice ruled on Airbnb being an "information society service". The ECJ Advocate-General stated that the ePrivacy Directive excludes the general and indiscriminate retention of personal data obligation.

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• CENTR publishes its CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q3/2019

  2020-01-21 News

  The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q3/2019 has been published. The report covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with additional focus on the European ccTLD market. The pdf version of the report can be found here.

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