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On 2 December, the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into the Danish Business Authority (DBA)’s draft market analysis with regard to the regulation of some regional fibre networks in Denmark.

The Commission is happy to announce that 26 new prospective signatories joined the drafting process. Current and prospective signatories are now expected to deliver the strengthened Code of Practice by the end of March 2022.

The European Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy launched this week the Global Gateway, the new European Strategy to boost smart, clean and secure links in digital, energy and transport and strengthen health, education and research systems across the world.

Las Rozas city council (Spain) invites interested bidders to submit offers for the following public procurement of innovative solutions. Objective is to deploy predictive tools in public administration to improve user access to information and proactively offer citizens public services that meet their needs. The project is part of the Spanish National Strategy of Artificial Intelligence.

This week the European Commission presented a proposal on transparency and targeting of political advertising, as part of measures aimed at protecting election integrity and open democratic debate.

This year, 80 cinemas across Europe will be participating in the fourth edition of the European Cinema Night (ECN) from 6 to 10 December 2021.

Freiburg city invites interested bidders to submit offers for its smart city pre-commercial procurement that aims to build an urban data platform that helps to better integrate data so that urban data can be better exchanged, made available (also to the public) and reused for new applications. The project is one of the key measures of the Freiburg digital strategy. Two use cases were selected for prototype implementation: (1) In the area of ​​digital urban planning / "Digital Twin": digital service for marketing urban land. (2) In the area of ​​mobility: collection, processing and use of live

Thirteen public transport buyers from size EU countries (Greece, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal) are looking for innovative solutions to increase security in public transport through automatic detection and identification of of unattended items and perpetrators combined with advanced crisis management. This PREVENT buyers group is inviting potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation of their upcoming pre-commercial procurement, via a number of (offline and physical) meetings between 10 and 27 January and other activities such as a

The iProcureSecurity buyers group of nine healthcare buyers from five countries (Greece, Italy, Spain, Austria and Turkey) is inviting interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation for their upcoming pre-commercial procurement, via a number of online and physical meetings between mid January - April 2022. The PCP aims for new innovative triage management systems that will strengthen the resilience and interoperability of emergency medical services in security situations.

The Commission has published the results of the public consultation on a set of digital principles.