Written question – Proliferation of media and digital platform regulators – E-003076/2025

Question for written answer  E-003076/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Catherine Griset (PfE), Séverine Werbrouck (PfE), André Rougé (PfE), Gilles Pennelle (PfE), Fabrice Leggeri (PfE)

The number of EU agencies and offices involved in monitoring media and digital platforms has increased: there is the European Board for Media Services, European Audiovisual Observatory, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications and European Digital Media Observatory.

These European regulators are in addition to the national regulators, which are also growing in number.

• 1.Does the Commission agree that this proliferation of regulators makes it difficult for Europeans to understand precisely what they do?
• 2.Within the Commission itself, the DSA compliance monitoring team is set to expand from 100 to 200 members. Does the Commission acknowledge that the rise in the number of authorities and staff involved in media and digital platform regulation has an escalating financial impact on EU taxpayers?
• 3.Given that it is seeking to simplify EU regulation, does it plan to reduce the number of agencies and offices, especially those dedicated to media and digital platform oversight?

Submitted: 24.7.2025