Some of the core aspects of this digital legal code would be, in addition to coordinating all existing competences, continuing to develop and expand the legal framework with a view to digital issues in the following manner: •C  reating a uniform legal framework for similar services, bringing Internet service providers into the process (over-the-top providers: OTTs) • S tronger integration of digital effects (e.g. network effects, lock-in effects) with transparency requirements, data security and data portability, to the extent that the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) allows for national provisions •A  daptation to new areas of business: Big Data / Location Based Services; measures: informational autonomy, data protection, transparency and information obligations (reworking national data protection laws, in particular adapting the Telecommunications Act and Telemedia Act to the GDPR) •P  romoting digitisation in everyday life by creating an innovation-friendly legal framework (e.g. smart meters: Act on Digitisation of the Energy Transition, the E-Health Act) In view of the rapid development and disruptive innovation, it is not sufficient for the government to wait for regulations to emerge from dynamic processes. Then innovation will take place where business and science can try new ideas and bring them to fruition. We should therefore think about setting up regulatory “experimental spaces” for new technologies and business models. For one thing, this would increase the possibility of tying value creation to a specific economic area. For another, valuable innovations can be initiated in a careful manner that takes citizens’ concerns into account. Regional experimental spaces could offer communities a chance to present themselves as an ideal location for specific technologies and innovations. These experimental spaces should satisfy the following requirements: •T  he innovation spaces should be clearly distinct, both geographically and temporally separate and also by experiment group, and are created for high-performance innovations with an attractive technical-commercial and societal focus (e.g. telemedicine, robotics, mobility). • I nnovation projects must, if required, be protected by time-limited and possibly geographically restricted experimentation clauses relating to statutory or regulatory frameworks.