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CENTR has published its Simplification Checklist, setting out the principles and targets that ccTLD registries would like to see applied across existing and new EU legislation. 

CENTR has published its Booklet of Innovations. It shows how European ccTLD registries support a resilient, open and safe internet, both through and beyond their daily operations. 

In a nutshell: The Commission President von der Leyen presented her State of the Union speech. The European Commission proposed new public procurement rules and the EU KIDS Act. The European Parliament published its draft report on the Cybersecurity Act 2.0. ENISA launched the Cyber Resilience Act reporting platform and published its 2026 Threat Landscape report. The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre published a call for proposals for strengthening European cybersecurity capabilities. CJEU Advocate General advised on excluding entities from public procurement for reasons of national security. Europol and Eurojust published SIRIUS Electronic Evidence Situation Report 2025.

In a nutshell: The European Commission published, guidance to support the Cyber Resilience Act implementation, an Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI, guidelines on AI systems transparency and a study on the intellectual property domain name information and alert system. The European Commission also referred certain Member States to the Court of Justice for failing to transpose the NIS 2 Directive. European Parliament committees moved further on the Digital Omnibus, NIS 2 targeted amendments and the Cybersecurity Act 2 proposal. The European Parliament think tank published an analysis on online fraud and fake web shops. EDPB adopted guidelines on anonymisation, web scraping in the context of generative AI.

One of the key priorities of the current European Commission is the “simplification” agenda, which aims to reduce administrative burden and support the competitiveness of European businesses. In the digital area, the flagship simplification initiative is the Digital Omnibus proposal that includes a set of technical amendments to digital legislation, selected to bring immediate relief to businesses, public administrations and citizens, and to stimulate competitiveness.

In a nutshell: The upcoming Council of the EU presidencies unveiled their programmes. The Council of the EU published progress reports on ongoing legislative files. Member States published declarations on the EU digital agenda. The European Commission presented a law enforcement package, Code of Practice on the transparency of AI-generated content, and reached a preliminary position on cloud service providers. European Parliament committees moved further on Digital Omnibus, and EU Inc. The SIRIUS project published guidelines on e-Evidence for competent authorities. European Supervisory Authorities published a report on major ICT-related incidents.

Even while attending remotely, it was obvious that the ccNSO meeting in Sevilla was a great edition. The meeting offered a rich agenda with relevant updates from around the world, it had excellent interactive sessions on the two key areas that are of the highest relevance for any ccTLD manager and it covered our industry’s hot topics such as resilience, verification and DNS abuse.

European ccTLD Market Review - April 2026 edition now live

The latest edition of the European ccTLD Market Review is now available on CENTRstats. Published twice yearly, the report tracks registration trends, pricing dynamics and technical adoption across CENTR member ccTLDs, with context from the wider domain market.

CENTR has published a comment on the proposal for the revised EU Cybersecurity Act 2 (CSA2), which was put forward by the European Commission in January 2026. The proposal aims to strengthen the EU's cybersecurity governance and introduces a new "trusted ICT supply chain framework" that would apply to essential and important entities under the NIS 2 Directive, including ccTLD registries.

In a nutshell: The European Commission published the EU Tech Sovereignty Strategy, including the Open Source Strategy and the proposal for the Cloud and AI Development Act. The European Commission is also seeking views on the Copyright Directive and the application of the MiCA Regulation. The co-legislators finalised the work on the AI Omnibus. ENISA published its NIS360 report. The NIS Cooperation Group adopted common templates for incident reporting. European political groups published their position papers on EU Tech Sovereignty.