7 REGULATION AND LEGISLATION 7.3 ACTIONS LEGISLATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE The benefits of the Internet are best reaped when regulatory and legal frameworks ensure universal access, transparency, openness and economic sustainability. Specific actions will be required. 38. Digital Single Market Malta will seek to maximise the benefits and opportunities deriving from legislation adopted within the EU. As at 2014, these include: The Data Protection Framework. The Electronic Identification and Trust Services Regulation. The Information Society Directive. Regulation concerning the European single market for electronic communications and achieving a Connected Continent. 39. Radio spectrum for mobile data communications The regulatory framework will ensure sufficient radio spectrum for mobile data communication while safeguarding the availability of spectrum for public security. 40. Digital legislation and contracts Government will work with stakeholders to: Have a process whereby new laws, once enacted, are digital by default. Evaluate existing laws to align them with the Digital Malta vision. Enable contracts, which are subject to the formalities of the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act, to be in digital format from the outset. 41. Infrastructure based competition 48 The legal and regulatory framework shall support investment in new broadband networks and stimulate infrastructure-based competition.