On the afternoon of August 4th 2020, two massive explosions devastated the port of Beirut and the surrounding area. DG ECHO immediately activated Copernicus Rapid and Risk & Recovery Mapping services, whose first product, based on Earth Observation (EO) data, was made available about 30h after t...
The Rules of Participation (RoP) for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) underpin the policies, processes and procedures required to provide assurance of openness, quality and trust in the practices and services offered through voluntary participation in EOSC. The RoP were developed by a dedi...
The principle of subsidiarity requires decisions to be taken at the lowest practical level of government without, however, jeopardising mutually beneficial cooperation at the supranational level. Recent decades have seen efforts to strengthen the subsidiarity principle in EU law, including the i...
The present work is the result of over one year of discussions among experts and European Commission (EC) staff from the different relevant services in order to provide guidelines in the form of a decision tree for research organisations when dealing with the current EC rules and regulations on ...
This paper reviews the independence and accountability of the ECB and the Federal Reserve. While the ECB makes significant efforts to be accountable for its actions, there are several improvements that could be made to European institutions to improve its independence and accountability. These i...
The untapped / hidden benefits of environmental policies are huge, this piece of research showcases and places a monetary value on the added benefits to our health, society and the economy that environmental investments and policy linked to energy efficiency can bring. Findings show that green p...
This Monitoring Report aims to follow the analysis developed in the previous report about the usefulness and added value of territorial foresight, as a tool for decision making for Local and Regional Authorities (LRAs) as well as a support mechanism for the Committee of the Regions (CoR) in the ...
Algorithmic systems are increasingly being used as part of decision-making processes in both the public and private sectors, with potentially significant consequences for individuals, organisations and societies as a whole. Algorithmic systems in this context refer to the combination of algorith...
Various actions during the course of 2012 — a paper to the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), a workshop with national statistical institutes (NSIs) and mapping agencies, and a meeting in Prague of Director-Generals of national statistical institutes (DGINS) — resulted in Eurostat dec...