Better Law-making and Evaluation for the EU Digital Rulebook

This paper critically addresses the application of the Better Regulation principles within the European Union’s evolving legislative framework for the digital economy and evaluates the effectiveness of this framework in addressing the economic and societal impacts of the digital transformation. Focusing on three major pieces of the EU digital rulebook, i.e. the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the paper provides recommendations to improve the ex ante and ex post regulatory assessments in order to ameliorate the digital rulebook and ensure that the EU can regain its competitiveness and promote responsible innovation, while protecting EU values and fundamental rights.