Daily Archives: 29/03/2021

24 EU countries commit to green procurement in leading the digital transformation

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29 March, 2021, Source : European Commission, Digital Single Market

 

At the Digital Day 2021, 24 Member States, Norway and Iceland signed a declaration to accelerate the use of green digital technologies for the benefit of the environment. They will deploy and invest more green digital technologies to achieve climate neutrality and acceleration.

These countries commit to promote and support making green public procurement the default option overall, and establish a sustainable baseline for public sector procurement of ICT products, data centres and cloud services, thereby stimulating a strong European market for green technologies.

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24 Member States commit to take innovation procurement actions to support growth of EU Startups

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29 March, 2021, Source : European Commission, Digital Single Market

 

At the Digital Day 2021, 24 Member States and Iceland signed the declaration on the Startups Nations Standard of Excellence. Ministers pledged to support actions that aim to boost the growth of startups and scaleups across Europe through innovation procurement. Two key best practices promoted by the declaration are that public buyers buy a fair share of innovations from startups and that they leave IPR ownership with suppliers in public procurements to enable further commercial exploitation, unless there are overriding public interest that require the public sector to acquire IPR ownership.

The declaration contains also seven other strands of actions facilitating the fast creation of a startup company, attracting and retaining talent, stock options, and facilitating experimentation and innovation, social inclusion, diversity and protection of democratic values, access to finance and digital first.

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