Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age


The Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age is an Executive Vice President of the European Commission responsible for media and information issues such as telecoms and IT. The current officeholder is Margrethe Vestager since December 2019.
The portfolio was previously Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. Mariya Gabriel served as Digital Economy and Society Commissioner from 2017 to 2019.

Viviane Reding

found a relatively popular policy in seeking to lower roaming charges of mobile phones when travelling within the European Union, stating: "For years, mobile roaming charges have remained unjustifiably high. We are therefore tackling one of the last borders within Europe's internal market". Her legislation to cap roaming charges was approved by the Parliament in April 2007. Reding's successor Neelie Kroes greatly extended the range of the roaming regulation, to include data charges amongst others.
On 7 April 2006 the Commission launched the new ".eu" TLD for websites for EU companies and citizens wishing to have a non-national European internet address. This has proved popular with 2.5M being registered by April 2007. It is now the seventh most popular TLD worldwide, and third in Europe
Reding has also proposed that major European telecom companies be forced to separate their network and service operations to promote competition in the market. The companies, including France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, would still own their networks but the separate management structure would be obliged to treat other operators on an equal basis in offering access to the network. This is opposed to separate ideas to force a full breakup of such companies.

List of commissioners

In the previous Commission information society was linked with Enterprise.
NameCountryPeriodCommission
1Karl-Heinz NarjesWest Germany1985–1992Delors Commission I & II
2Antonio RubertiItaly1992–1995Delors Commission III
3Martin BangemannGermany1995–1999Santer Commission
4Erkki LiikanenFinland1999–2004Prodi Commission
5Ján FigeľSlovakia2004Prodi Commission
6Viviane RedingLuxembourg2004–2010Barroso Commission I
7Neelie KroesNetherlands2010–2014Barroso Commission II
8Günther OettingerGermany2014–2016Juncker Commission
9Andrus AnsipEstonia2017Juncker Commission
10Mariya GabrielBulgaria2017–2019Juncker Commission