This report was prepared within the framework of a study aimed at assisting DG INFSO in shaping and assessing actions in the field of Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) that could be included in a forthcoming EU policy initiative. In particular, the purpose of this report is t...
This is the “Final Report and Recommendations” deliverable from the “Study of the effects of allowing patent claims for computer-implemented inventions”, commissioned by the DG Information Society of the European Commission. This document is intentionally short, as it is intended to be read in i...
Network interconnection by means of the Internet Protocol (IP) has been a vital enabler of the Internet’s ubiquity and success. IP-based interconnection has usually been achieved without explicit regulatory obligations, and has for the most part been highly effective. With the increasing importa...
This document represents one of the two main deliverables of the 2005 project to update the 2003 CSIRT Legal Handbook. It sets out in a concise form the legal status of different types of computer misuse under the legal systems of the EU countries. The study reviewed the information in the 2003 ...
The Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) was first introduced at the Lisbon Council (2000) to: • offer a means of spreading good practice and achieving greater convergence towards the main EU goals; and • help Member States to progressively develop their own policies. One of the first applications...
The European Union, like most of the world, faces economically challenging times. In such times, it becomes all the more important to recognise and seize new and unique opportunities to drive growth, stimulate innovation, and to provide benefits to citizens, businesses and public administrations...
This report contains an overview of the activities that were carried out during 2013. It was a busy year where the main focus of the Agency was on the initial set up of the organisation, handover of the operational management of the systems from the European Commission (via a service transition ...
net-Xperiment future is produced by the Experimental Platforms unit of the European Commission’s DG Connect – ‘Net Futures’ Directorate. The Experimental Platforms unit coordinates and makes available to researchers experimental facilities through the FIRE initiative (Future Internet Research an...
The opportunities of using powerful computing resources on demand via the web are considered as a possible driver for the growth of the European economy. While the market for Social Network Sites has already experienced a consolidation, the market for Cloud Computing is still in an early stage, ...
