Informed consent is largely fictional in practice. Consumers are asked for consent at inconvenient moments and with exhausting frequency. To address ineffective consent, the EU legislator proposes the introduction of consent agents in Article 88b of the Digital Omnibus draft, requiring service providers to accept their signals. These agents would give consumers centralised, upfront information about consent purposes and allow them to set preferences once, which are then transmitted automatically to services. This would eliminate the need to repeatedly respond to individual consent requests. However, consent agents raise significant questions, particularly regarding the technical and visual design of agent-based consent processes. Such processes must enable truly informed and legally secure decisions and be governed by standards that are technology-neutral, future-proof, and constantly improvable. The panel will discuss current legislative and standardisation efforts and provide an overview of existing solutions.