Important legal notice
The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer, a copyright notice and rules related to personal data protection.
Disclaimer
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The overall objectives of this study are to address the following points and questions:
- What would be the potential impact on the development of the Information Society if public organisations (administrations, research institutions, universities, agencies, public companies etc.) were to release software fully owned by them under an open source license?
Is an amplification effect on the adoption and use of information society technologies to be expected? What are the possible characteristics of such effect and under what circumstances would it take place? - What are the conditions under which software fully owned by public organisations can be made available using an OSS license, and to identify opportunities, barriers and limitations to this process.
- The study should provide options and recommendations for actions that could be taken, notably by the European Commission, EU Member States, and the private and public sector in general.
The study should, as a minimum, address the domains described hereafter. The identification and analysis of other important issues by the tenderer may count as additional value. For instance, the analogy with the initiatives taken on public sector information could, if appropriate, be explored.
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Unisys (Belgium) is the “Portal administrator” in charge of building and managing the Web Portal. The Portal administrator can take all actions with the purpose to improve the Portal and its content. In particular, He has the right to moderate contributions and has all powers to accept or reject any contribution. In executing this mission, Unisys does not endorse the responsibility for the content of the submitted contributions: this responsibility, if any, belongs to the author submitting the information. Unisys does not represent the Commission and therefore nothing in the Portal could have binding consequence for the European Commission. The Commission and the Portal administrator accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the information on this site.
This information is:
- not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date;
- sometimes linked to external sites over which the Portal services have no control and for which the Portal provider assumes no responsibility;
- not professional or legal advice (if you need specific advice, you should always consult a suitably qualified professional).
It is our goal to minimize disruption caused by technical errors. However some data or information on our site may have been created or structured in files or formats that are not error-free and we cannot guarantee that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. The Portal administrator accepts no responsibility with regard to such problems incurred as a result of using this site or any linked external sites.
This disclaimer is not intended to limit the liability of the Portal administrator or of the Commission in contravention of any requirements laid down in applicable national law nor to exclude its liability for matters which may not be excluded under that law.
Copyright notice |
Reproduction is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged, save where otherwise stated.
Where prior permission must be obtained for the reproduction or use of textual and multimedia information (sound, images, software, etc.), such permission shall cancel the above-mentioned general permission and shall clearly indicate any restrictions on use.
In particular, the Web Portal is open to volunteer contributions of Public Sector authors. By the fact of making yourself a volunteer contribution (for example by submitting on-line papers, reports, articles, images, or information of any kind), you are deemed and acknowledge to be the author or the legitimate copyright owner or the licensee of this information including all attached documents, you declare to be entitled to communicate and publish it, and you provide to the European Commission and to the Portal administrator a free of charge non-exclusive licence, for the duration of your own copyright, to publish and distribute this information through the Internet via the Portal. By doing that, you will - as the author - keep intact all your other benefits resulting from copyright and moral rights law.
Personal Data Protection |
The policy on "protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions" is based on Regulation (EC) N° 45/2001 [234 KB] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000.
This general policy covers the European Union's family of institutional Web Sites, within the eu.int domain.
Although you can browse through most of these Web Sites without giving any information about yourself, in some cases, personal information is required in order to provide the e-services you request.
Web Sites that require such information treat it according to the policy described in the Regulation mentioned above and provide information about the use of your data in their specific privacy policy statements.
In this respect:
- For each specific e-service, a controller determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data and ensures conformity of the specific e-service with the privacy policy;
- Within each Institution, a Data Protection Officer ensures that the provisions of the Regulation are applied and advises controllers on fulfilling their obligations (see art. 24 of the Regulation);
- For all the Institutions, the European Data Protection Supervisor [27 KB] will act as an independent supervisory authority (see art. 41 to 45 of the Regulation).
- To identify yourself uniquely, as author of your contribution if you decide to become logged user of the Portal (this allowing you to contribute to the content);
- To provide you newsletters that will be sent to your unique e-mail address.
Each Portal logged user will be entitled to access and to manage his personal data (name, surname, birth date) trough his logged access to Portal.
The Portal logged user is sole responsible of his personal data (the Portal administrator will make no verification or corrections).
Personal data are encrypted and protected against unauthorised access in the Portal database.For any complaints or queries concerning the management of your personal data please contact: OSSI@unisys.com
How do we treat e-mails you send us?
The Portal, as many web pages on has a "Contact" button, which activates your e-mail software and invites you to send your comments to specific functional mailbox. When you send such a message, your personal data is collected only to the extent necessary to reply. If you have any questions about the processing of your e-mail and related personal data, do not hesitate to include them in your message.