01/02/2023

Final conference of the European Good Practice Initiative on Cookie Banner Consent Management funded BMUV
ConPolicy hosts virtual conference on consumer-friendly cookie banner design

Cookies are often a nuisance for consumers – and, accordingly, cookie banners often affect companies' reputations. It doesn't have to be that way. Some companies, consumer protection associations and data protection organizations have joined forces to make cookie banners better.

The framework for this is the European Good Practice Initiative for Cookie Banner Consent Management - a multi-stakeholder process involving companies, consumer organizations, digital rights organizations, academics and government agencies. The initiative is funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.

Over the course of 2022, stakeholders have been working on guidelines for consumer-friendly cookie banner design.

On January 26, 2023 from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. (CET) the virtual final conference of the European Good Practice Initiative for Cookie Banner Consent Management will take place.

At the conference, we will present the results and discuss them with stakeholders from business, civil society, data protection supervision and politics.

Dr. Christiane Rohleder, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, will give an opening statement. Marcel Ritter (Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG, General Counsel), Ursula Pachl (BEUC, Deputy Director), Rebekka Weiß (bitkom, Head of Trust and Security), Meike Kamp (Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information) and Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler (Faculty of Law, University of Göttingen) will participate in the event. The agenda can be found here.

We look forward to welcoming you at the conference! The conference will be conducted in English. Please register here by 19 January 2023.
More information about the project can be found here. Please click here for the announcement of the conference on the website of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.

12/12/2022

Study for the German Environment Agency
New ConPolicy project on incentives for more sustainable mobility behavior

Mobility in Germany is still heavily dominated by private motorized transport. This is associated with considerable negative environmental impacts. With regard to possible political instruments and measures, it is evident that environmental relief cannot be achieved through technical advances and infrastructure measures alone, and that measures such as information and image campaigns are also insufficient for the necessary mobility turnaround. This results in a need for alternative instruments to motivate people to adopt more sustainable mobility behavior.

Against this background, the German Environment Agency commissioned ConPolicy together with the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) and Dreidreizehn (313) to carry out this research project. The project aims to obtain a systematic overview of the state of research as well as good examples of financial and immaterial incentives and their impact on mobility behavior, and to investigate implementation options and framework conditions. As a result, a contribution is to be made to expanding the range of political instruments for promoting sustainable mobility behavior.

Further information on the project can be found here.