Open Source Initiative

EU Legislative Interests

OSI champions software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement. This especially affects competition, technology and individual rights policy but can involve any area of the EU's activity. Over the course of the last year, the OSI was particularly concerned about the various measures representing the Digital Agenda and their impact on open source usage throughout Europe, notably the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), the Product Liability Directive (PLD), the AI act and Digital Omnibus. The organization also contributed to discussions on the revision of Regulation 1025 and the various Public Procurement directives. In the coming year, much of OSI's policy work in Europe will be transferred to OSI Europe Foundation, our independent European sister organisation.

Communication Activities

During 2025, we wrote repeatedly about various EU initiatives, including the revision of the Public Procurement directives, Standardisation Regulation and the proposed SEP regulation, as well as the AI omnibus and CRA. In addition to this we wrote about the impact of the definition of Open Source AI on the application of the AI act. We continued to meet with representatives from DG CNECT H.2 in relation to the CRA, as well as with MEPs on both the CRA and AI act. We again co-organised the FOSDEM DevRoom "Open Source and EU policy" with representatives of CNECT H.2, and included the contributions of officers across the Commission as well as Parliamentary representatives. Reflecting the cross-European nature of OSI's supporters (both individual and by NGOs and technology developer groups) OSI engages as necessary across the full scope of the EU's activity. OSI is a very small organisation so activity depends on the availability of a local member or staff member. We are routinely working in areas expected to fall under the oversight of the Commission's new Open Source Program Office and anticipate any formal communications will be with that function. We expect other activities to be on the scale of letters or single meetings.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

https://opensource.org/associations

Organisation Members

https://opensource.org/affiliates

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