Despite the digital economy is growing at seven times the rate of the rest of the economy, its full potential development is still being refrained by a fragmented pan-European policy framework. In order to tackle these barriers for development, the European Commission has adopted seven priorities for the digital economy and society to be implemented over the period 2013-2014.

The European Commission seven new digital priorities for years 2013 and 2014 include the creation a new and stable broadband regulatory environment which in words of Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, represents one of her top priorities together with the maximization of the digital sector's contribution to Europe's recovery. With this objective the Commission foresees to finalise a new and stable broadband regulatory environment in the European Union as part of the main targets set forth within the Digital Agenda for Europe.

In addition to it, the Commission seeks to boost new public digital service infrastructures through Connecting Europe Facility. This includes the support to full deployment of digital services with special attention to their cross-border interoperability. This will include, among others, actions in eIDs and eSignatures, business mobility, eJustice and eProcurement, considering that eGovernment can reduce the costs of administration by 15-20 %.

The third Commission's priority consist in the launch of the Grand Coalition on Digital Skills and Jobs to take practical steps to avoid one million ICT jobs going unfilled by 2015 because of lack of skilled personnel. An EU cyber-security strategy and Directive will be the fifth digital priority for the two coming years, in order to secure the world's safest on-line environment. This will establish a common minimum level of preparedness at national level and will include an online platform to prevent and counter cross-border cyber incidents, and incident reporting requirements.

The European Union will also work on the update of EU's Copyright Framework by providing a structured stakeholder dialogue in 2013 in order to provide solutions for copyright-related issues. By 2014 the European Commission will put forward a decision on whether to table resulting legislative reform proposals.

As part of the 2012-2013 digital priorities, new pilot actions will be launched within the European Cloud Partnership in order to harnesses public procurement buying power to help create the world's largest cloud-enabled ICT market and to dismantle current national fortresses and negative consumer perceptions. Finally, the Commission will propose an industrial strategy for micro- and nano-electronics. This will increase Europe's attractiveness for investment in design and production as well as growing its global market share.