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The EU regulation on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market is going to apply from April 2018. Europeans who have purchased films, series, sports broadcasts, games or e-books online while at home can access them when they travel across the EU (see MEMO).

Taken together with new roaming rules that entered into force last summer, Europeans will from now on be able to travel with their digital subscriptions without fear of high cost or missing their favourite episodes. Earlier this week, Vice President Ansip participated in an event in the European Parliament together with European broadcasters and MEPs to present the new rules. You can find more information about the event here.

The regulation approved by the European Parliament on 14 June 2017 (see Press Release) is part of a broader package of proposals to modernize EU copyright legislation. This is the first instrument related to copyright to come into force in the context of the Digital Single Market strategy.

For more details and examples, see the factsheet and Commissioner Gabriel's speech at the Berlin Film Festival.  

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