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With its 2021 update, the MAVISE database now offers a central access point to jurisdiction information related to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD).

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has launched a call for expression of interest to create an Ad Hoc Working Group on 5G cybersecurity certification.

Interested in EU funding for your next innovation procurement? Horizon Europe provides funding opportunities for pre-commercial procurements (PCPs) and public procurements of innovative solutions (PPIs) in different fields: ICT, health, security, climate change, satellite and research infrastructures etc.

The Polish National Center for Research and Development invites interested bidders to submit offers for the following two pre-commercial procurements about: (1) Home water retention technologies, (2) Ventilation for schools and homes, (3) A combined heat and power plant in the local energy system,

The Andalusian ministry of agriculture, livestock, fisheries and sustainable development invites interested bidders to submit offers for its pre-commercial procurement. Objective is to develop a cloud based e-infrastructure innovation that facilitates the spatial integration of a broad set of environmental variables (vegetation, uses, climate, cadaster, natural risks, climate change scenarios, etc). Aim is also to create a wide range of tools for analysis of the data (machine learning, generation of indicators, geoprocesses, statistical analysis).

Healthcare buyers from Sweden, Spain, Denmark and Norway are joining forces in the CRANE buyers group to implement together a pre-commercial procurement. Aim is to trigger innovation across Europe to improve the comprehensive treatment of chronic diseases in rural areas. The Horizon 2020 funded CRANE project has just started beginning of June.

The 2021 LUX Audience Film Award went to “Collective”, by Alexander Nanau. The winner of this year’s edition was announced on 9 June at the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, where the LUX Audience Award Ceremony was held.

The Commission launched this week an infringement procedure against Hungary, following the Hungarian Media Council's decisions to reject Klubradio's application on the use of radio spectrum on highly questionable grounds.

On 7 June 2021, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) world-class supercomputer MeluXina was officially inaugurated by His Royal Highness Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, in Bissen, Luxembourg.

The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (EU) 2019/790, for which the transposition deadline for Member State expires today, addresses among other things an issue that the cultural heritage sector has been struggling with for a long time: the exploitation of out-of-commerce works. Out-of-commerce works are works (e.g. visual arts, films, books, published or unpublished, etc.) that are still protected by copyright but that are not available via any commercial channels. European libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage institutions currently contain millions of out-of-commerce works in their collections. Such works can still hold great cultural, scientific, educational, historical and entertainment value. In order to support the core mission of cultural heritage institutions for public interest, the Directive establishes a clear framework for the digitisation and dissemination of such works.