This page provides continuous monitoring of the Digital Networks Act (DNA). It tracks procedural developments, emerging regulatory design choices and systemic implications within the broader EU digital regulatory framework.
Last updated: 21 April 2026
1. Legislative status
Proposal stage:
2. Key regulatory scope
Offering a simplified legal framework at the EU level on digital networks. The proposal aims to address the fragmentation of the electronic communications sector, and incentivises providers to innovate, grow, scale up and operate across borders within a true single market for connectivity. Furthermore, it enhances network security and resilience by limiting dependencies in the connectivity ecosystem and promoting EU-level cooperation.
3. Key developments
- Legislative train schedule – official website
- EDPS Opinion 8/2026 on the Digital Networks Act
4. Our analysis
5. Other useful documents
- White Paper – How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs? – 21 February 2024
- Proposal and Annexes to the proposal, 21 January 2026
- Briefing on the Commission’s Impact Assessment (Initial Appraisal of a European Commission Impact Assessment), Author: Costica Dumbrava, Ex-Ante Impact Assessment Unit, EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service, 10 March 2026
- Briefing by the European Parliamentary Research Service about the Digital Networks Act (Author: Stefano De Luca), 17 March 2026
- BEREC’s ( Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications) early assessment on the Digital Networks Act, 30 march 2026
- A Dispassionate Assessment of the Digital Networks Act and the Path to Transformation, by Agenzia di Ricerca e Legislazione, 13 April 2026
- One Passport, One Market? The Promises of the first proposal for a Digital Networks Act, by Alfonso Cristofano, 20 April 2026
