Within the context of the launch of the European Data Portal, further evidence of the quantitative impact of re-use of Open Data is measured. The aim of this study is to collect, assess and aggregate economic evidence to forecast the benefits of the re-use of Open Data for the EU28+. Four key...

Service Level Agreements for cloud computing services Study about standards terms and performance criteria in service level agreements (SLA) for cloud computing services (SMART 2013/0039) This document is the final report which has been prepared by time.lex and Spark in the European Commission's...

This Report is the final result of a study of which the objective was threefold: - First, the study aimed to assist the Commission by gathering evidence on the transposition of the ePrivacy Directive and by conducting an in-depth analysis of the effective implementation and enforcement of key...

Directive 2002/58/EC - hereafter "the ePrivacy Directive" - aims to protect the privacy and regulate the processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector. As such the Directive complements the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. Inter alia, the ePrivacy Directive specifies how...

This Report is the final result of a study of which the objective was threefold: - First, the study aimed to assist the Commission by gathering evidence on the transposition of the ePrivacy Directive and by conducting an in-depth analysis of the effective implementation and enforcement of key...

The study on the analysis of the needs for cross-border services and assessment of the organisational, legal, technical and semantic barriers (SMART 2011/0074) assessed the needs and demand, costs-benefits and barriers for cross-border services where interoperability is a key factor. The study...