Based on the previous recent research and results in this area, notably the EU Public Sector Tech Watch reports and handbooks "European Landscape on the Use of Artificial Intelligence by the Public Sector", "Road to the adoption of AI by the public sector", "A collective effort in exploring the...

In the spring of 2007, Estonia's public services were under cyber-attacks for three weeks. This event is likely to have alerted several EU national governments on the vulnerability of their internet-based services. The 'spring' of digital resilience for public authorities began when it became...

This report provides a detailed review of State aid rules relating to the Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI) package. The report presents key notions of the SGEI Communication and Decision respectively and identifies challenges arising from these documents under the legal framework for...

This study examines how the 2014 Directives on public procurement are being implemented by regional and local authorities. The Directives introduced several changes to the European public procurement framework. These include thresholds, grounds for exclusion and award criteria, new and...

The political backdrop of the present analysis is provided by the Committee of the Regions (CoR) proposal of a Code of conduct for the involvement of the local and regional authorities in the European Semester and by the territorial analyses of the 2018 Country Reports based on Country-specific...

This study concerns EU instruments for administrative capacity building as they relate to local and regional authorities (LRAs). It addresses challenges for LRAs in respect to administrative capacity with a focus on economic governance and, especially, structural reforms and investment, as well...

The political backdrop of this analysis is provided by the Committee of the Regions (CoR) proposal of a Code of conduct for the involvement of the local and regional authorities in the European Semester1 and by the territorial analyses of the 2017 Country Reports and 2016 Country-specific...

This study aims to contribute to the backing of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) proposal for a Code of Conduct on the involvement of local and regional authorities (LRA), and to inform the implementation of the Code. It highlights good practices in LRA involvement in the European...

The aim of this study is to analyse and compare the various governance systems of SME and entrepreneurship policy in Europe. As the first layer of analysis, the roles and competences of regional and local authorities in the governance of SME and entrepreneurship policy are analysed - based on...

This study analyses the key challenges for Local and Regional Authorities (LRAs) in developing a long-term, structured industrial policy, with a global view. The policy should promote structural change and raise the industrial contribution to GDP to the 20% target set by the European Commission...