European Legal Network Conference

8 April, Amsterdam

The Digital Agendaand

Free Software

Carl-Christian Buhr

European Commission

(All expressed views are those of the speaker.)

The European Commission is...

...Policy Makere.g. Copyright & EIF/EIS & Community Patent

...Regulatore.g. Antitrust & Merger Control, Guidelines

...Funding Agencye.g. Research & Innovation Funding

...Procurere.g. Internal IT

http://ec.europa.eu/

Neelie Kroes

Maroš Šefčovič

Digital Agenda

Internal IT, ISA, etc.

The College of Commissioners

Joaquín Almunia

Competition Michel Barnier

IPR, etc.

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/

Legislators

http://europarl.europa.eu/

http://consilium.europa.eu/

European Parliament

Council of the European Union

Advising on...

Standards & InteroperabilityICT Research PolicyCloud Computingetc.

http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU,@NeelieKroesEU

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

http://bit.ly/cc_buhr,@ccbuhr

Vision & action plan.

101 Actions

e.g. Chapter 2 on Interoperability & Standards

First Flagship Initiative of the EU2020 Strategy

Policy Maker: DAE

DAE 21: Standardisation Reform [2011]Boosting OSS through easier reference of open standards in procurement

DAE 23: Guidance on ICT public procurement [2011]How to analyse needs and reference relevant standards

DAE 25: Explore Interoperability Measures [2012]Early stages. Improvements would help OSS.

DAE 26: Member States (MS) to implement EIFDAE 27: MS to implement Malmö and Granada declarationsOngoing process. Commission e.g. finances CIP-ICT-PSP pilot projects, convenes, supports MS.

Policy Maker: ISA

Interoperability Solutions forEuropean Public Administrations: 2010-2015, EUR 164.1m

DAE 24: European Interoperability Framework [2010]Elevates EIF status, OSS important factor

OSOR.eu: Open Source Observatory and Repositorye.g. Munich OSS developmentsEUPL OSI-approved OSS license

SEMIC.eu: Semantic Interoperability Center

Regulator

DAE 22: Promote standard-setting rules [2010]

New guidance e.g. on standard-setting clarifies ex-ante disclosures and rules on IPR licensing Reduced obstacles for OSSAdditional steps coming?

Past and Future Antitrust & Merger cases

Microsoft/Samba: GPL-compliant licensingOracle/Sun merger: OSS at the heart of the case

Funding Agency

http://www.openaire.eu

http://europeana.eu

FP7 ICT research projects encourage/demand OSS delivery

e.g. Exa-scale computing call: “All software should be developed as open source.” (page 111)

http://europeanalabs.eu/

EGI, PRACE, GEANT, etc.

Procurer. A Windows problem?!

Commission no pioneer for OSS on the desktopComplexity of the issue should be acknowledgedDistinguish IT Strategy decisions & procurement rules

link

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...big mix with lots of OSS

Strategy for internal use of OSS at the Commission: Comments?

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/informatics/oss_tech/index_en.htm

Pointers

The Digital Agenda for Europehttp://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

Neelie Kroes Speech on DAE, Ch. 2http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/300

ISA, OSOR.eu, SEMIC.euhttp://ec.europa.eu/isa, http://www.osor.eu/,

http://www.semic.eu/

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