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The Department for Economic Affairs deals with competitiveness, space policy, trade policy, cohesion-, structural and regional policy, competition policy, telecommunications and postal services, company law, energy policy, media and culture as well as sports:
(*The Division for Environmental Policy is part of the Department for Economic Affairs but will be shown separately.)

Competitiveness

Industrial policy
Internal Market policy
Better Regulation
SME policy
Tourism policy
Public Procurement
State Aid policy
Competition policy
Ecodesign
Technical Harmonisation
- Vehicles
- European Standardisation
- Product Regulation
- Information procedure for technical regulations
Economic statistics

European Space Policy

Trade policy

Common EU-Trade Policy (incl. investment protection, trade in services)
Bilateral EU-Trade Agreements
Autonomous EU-Trade Instruments
Specific Questions of Foreign Trade Policiy (in particular : generalized system of preferences, tariff quotas and suspensions)
Trade Defense Instruments (e.g. : antidumping, anti-subsidy)
Market access and origin matters
Textile trade, commodities, raw materials
World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Economic and trade-related aspects of the EU-relations to third countries
Export- and Investment Promotion
Dual-use items (dual-use regulation)
Sanction Law

Cohesion-, Structural and Regional policy

Competition Issues

Legal Advisor for Infringement Proceedings

Telecommunications and Postal Services

*The Department is in charge of most of the issues dealt with in the council working groups telecommunication and postal services.

Data Act
Revision of the eIDAS regulation (European Digital Identity Framework)
ePrivacy-Regulation
Regulation about Artificial Intelligence
Interoperable Europe Act
Roaming Regulation
Internet Governance (ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, IGF: Internet Governance Forum)
Telecommunication Issues in multilateral international organisations (ITU, G7, G20 etc.)
European Codex for Electronic Eommunication
European Declaration about Digital Rights and Principles
Issues with a Digital policy focus within in the Trade and Technology Councils (TTC) with the USA and India
EU-Digital partnerships
Strategy for the Digital Internal Market
Revision of the Postal Services Directive

Company Law

Intellectual and industrial property rights
Corporate and Accounting Law
Law against unfair competition
Insurance Law

Energy Policy

General Issues of Energy Policy
Energy security
Internal Market for Energy, incl. Electricity and Gas
Energy Networks / - infrastructures
Renewable Energies
Energy Efficiency
Energy Labelling and Ecodesign
External relations of Energy policy (incl. Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Community)
Energy Technologies
Nuclear Policy (nuclear safety and security, radiation protection, disposal)

Media Policy