Over the last 15 years, we have supported the use of open technologies in public administration.
The Open Source Observatory has helped the European public sector leverage open technologies effectively and efficiently by providing various resources, including a knowledge centre to reveal the benefits and follow #EU open source software development.
Today, we requested information from Amazon on how it meets its obligations under our Digital Services Act to protect consumers online and regarding risk assessments, including:
🔸 the dissemination of illegal products and the protection of fundamental rights;
🔹 compliance of recommender systems with the relevant provisions of the #DSA.
Failure to reply by the deadline could lead to the imposition of periodic penalty payments.
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Our programmes are open to both #EU and #US students, researchers, and prospective students.
Last year, we set the target to fill up our gas storage by 90% by 1 November. We exceeded it by filling up the storage to almost full capacity.
Storage provides an additional reserve in case of strong demand or supply disruptions.
We are strengthening our energy independence with #REPowerEU by saving energy, diversifying our energy supplies, and speeding up the clean energy transition.
Any #EU#law historians around? Since when can member states not party to a direct action proceeding before the #CJEU submit observations? The oldest example I could find by a crude text search dates from 1986 [1]. That's 32 years after the first direct action was lodged that included a member state [2]. Were member states simply not allowed to submit observations before?
It happened with the mail; it may happen soon with money.
We welcome the political agreement reached by the EU Council and the European Parliament on our proposal to make instant payments in euros available to all #EU citizens and businesses at no extra cost.
The new rules will also increase trust in #euro instant payments and make sanctions screening more efficient.
This is the amount of value-added tax (VAT) revenues lost in the #EU in 2021 mainly to fraud, evasion, non-fraudulent bankruptcies, miscalculations and financial insolvencies.
Yet, it is an improvement from the €99 billion lost in 2020.
Lost VAT revenues can severely hamper governments' ability to finance essential public goods and services, including schools, hospitals, and transportation.
We will continue to sustain and amplify efforts towards reinforcing VAT compliance.
This year again, European and EU-funded scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize.
💡 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 Anne L'Huillier and 🇭🇺 🇦🇹 Ferenc Krausz were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental methods to generate attosecond pulses of light.
🔬 🇭🇺 Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Her discovery helped EU grantee Ugur Sahin develop one of the first COVID-19 vaccines.
Since 2002, the #EU has funded at least 29 Nobel Prize winners.