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# CISPE and industry peers warn Italy's cloud levy risks fragmenting EU market
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-04-02-cispe-italy-cloud-levy-warning/
- Published: 2026-04-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:56:11.000Z
- Description: CISPE, EuroISPA and the European DIGITAL SME Alliance jointly warned that Italy's new copyright levy on cloud storage, charged per gigabyte and per user, undermines EU digitalisation and competitiveness goals and could fragment the Single Market if copied elsewhere.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Compute and infrastructure, #news, #verified, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion AI-drafted [CISPE press statement, 2 April 2026](https://www.cispe.cloud/cispe-joins-wider-industry-in-raising-concerns-over-italian-cloud-levy/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that Italy or the Commission will amend or withdraw the decree.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Opinion: industry warning against Italy's cloud levy decree, no institutional response yet. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)