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In November 2022, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation laying down measures for a high level of public sector interoperability across the Union (the interoperable Europe act). The initiative seeks to ensure a consistent, human-centric EU approach to interoperability, create an interoperability governance structure that helps public administrations and the private sector to work together, and establish an ecosystem of interoperability solutions for the EU's public sector. ...

The initiative's general objective is to address interoperability issues Member States and the EU institutions face when delivering digital public services across EU borders. The impact assessment (IA) identifies the problem clearly as the limited interoperability of network and information systems supporting digital public services in the EU. However, the IA's efforts to identify the scale of the problem are limited, and it could have explained better how the problem would evolve in the future. ...

DG IPOL Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies published the following documents to assist the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) in its parliamentary work.

Les services publics de l’emploi (SPE) sont les principales agences d’exécution des politiques de l’emploi facilitant l’intégration des demandeurs d’emploi sur le marché du travail. La Commission européenne a proposé de prolonger et d’améliorer le réseau européen de ces services en coopérant, entre autres, avec d’autres acteurs du marché du travail et en s’adaptant aux enjeux de la transition numérique, aux développements technologiques dans le monde du travail et aux changements démographiques. ...

This study evaluates the objectives of legislative actions in the area of public procurement during the 7th and 8th legislature and assesses the contribution of current initiatives to the achievement of EU objectives. This document provides for a critical analysis of the legal framework of the public procurement regime and identifies the future potential of European public procurement.. This document was prepared by Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy, at the request of the Committee ...

Les entreprises sociales mènent une activité entrepreneuriale qui, en même temps, a des effets bénéfiques pour la société, pour l’environnement ou pour la zone où elles sont implantées. Elles doivent toutefois composer avec des obstacles réglementaires, et souffrent souvent de difficultés d’accès aux fonds et d’un déficit de visibilité. Il n’existe pas, à l’heure actuelle, de définition de l’«entreprise sociale» qui fasse consensus, ce qui rend difficile la mise en place dans différents systèmes ...

Le traité sur le fonctionnement de l’Union européenne (traité FUE) contient dans ses articles 101 à 109 des règles relatives à la concurrence sur le marché intérieur. Conformément à ces règles, les accords entre entreprises restreignant la concurrence sont interdits. Il est interdit aux entreprises dominantes sur le marché d’abuser de leur position pour influencer les échanges entre les États membres. Les fusions et acquisitions de dimension européenne sont contrôlées par la Commission européenne ...

Media freedom, a core EU value and a cornerstone of democracy, is a priority reform area in the Western Balkans' EU accession agenda. Yet, despite a certain level of preparedness and a broadly developed legal framework, aspirant countries keep facing systemic shortcomings that require long-term sustained efforts. These efforts have stalled in recent years, resulting in a 'no progress' situation.

EU-Canada negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) began in May 2009 and concluded in September 2014. Signed in October 2016, the agreement's overall aim is to increase flows of goods, services and investment. This publication analyses the extent to which public services are protected in CETA. The trade agreement takes the public sector into account by means of a (general) public sector carve-out and specific reservations introduced by the EU and the Member States in the ...

For the past four decades, and even more so since the crisis of 2008, integrated social services have been considered an efficient tool for helping all people, but particularly vulnerable ones, to participate successfully in society. What are these services, what can they really achieve and what are their limitations? Due to their complex nature, resulting from combining several services from employment, through health, social protection and education, they have only partly been mapped systematically ...