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+<head>
+  <title>Interoperable Europe Act: Committee of the Regions fails to substantially promote Free Software</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+
+<h1>Interoperable Europe Act: Committee of the Regions fails to substantially promote Free Software</h1>
+
+<p>
+The Committee of the Regions approved its opinion on the 
+Interoperable Europe Act. The EU representative body has failed to recognise 
+the importance that Free Software has for interoperability and thus for 
+digitalisation and innovation.  This underlines the relevance of Free 
+Software Community's participation in the planned 
+Interoperable Board.
+</p>
+
+<figure>
+     <img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/78/94/d9f6548eef03da7fac8ba80496bc.png" 
+       alt="EU flag with a gavel in the background and the word fail in the foreground"/>
+       </figure>
+
+<p>
+With the EU's objective of establishing a legal framework on 
+interoperability through the Interoperable Europe Act, today the 
+Committee of the Regions has adopted its opinion in plenary. While the 
+opinion has feebly mentioned the role of Free Software in achieving 
+cross-border interoperability and avoiding vendor lock-in in its policy 
+recommendations, the Committee of the Regions has failed in 
+substantially improving the original text and bringing up more solid 
+and necessary measures. It lacks to introduce a  “Free Software first” 
+approach and the involvement of stakeholders in the Interoperable 
+Europe Board, an intended body that shall decide on upcoming steps 
+arising from this legislation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+</p>
+<blockquote>
+ <em> ““It is incomprehensible that the institution who has the responsibility 
+ to bring up the demands of thousands of local and regional 
+ administrations fails in featuring the importance of Free Software for 
+ interoperability. Hence, this decision only reaffirms the importance of 
+ the involvement of stakeholder, who have actual competence, in this 
+ decision making processes . We, therefore, urge the European Parliament 
+ to include the Free Software community in the Interoperable Europe 
+ Board to guarantee sustainability and innovation in digitalisation. 
+ Furthermore a 'Free Software first' approach still needs to be 
+ introduced", explains Lina Ceballos, FSFE Policy Project Manager.
+ </em>
+</blockquote>
+<p></p>
+
+<p>
+The role that Free Software plays in the digitalisation of local and 
+regional administrations has shown to be of the great importance, 
+especially  during the corona pandemic. Among other, it strengthens 
+digital sovereignty allowing administrations to have control over the 
+software they are using, while it enables that public funds are spent 
+in the most efficient way. For these reasons, over the last years the 
+FSFE has been demanding with its <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">'Public Money? Public 
+Code!' initiative</a> that publicly financed 
+software should be made publicly available under a Free Software 
+licence. It is now up to the European Parliament to ensure 
+interoperability is introduced by a <italic>“Free Software first” </italic> approach 
+while including the Free Software community on the path to digitalise 
+European public administrations. First Amendments in this direction 
+have been introduced already, however, the position has to be further 
+improved. <a href="/news/2023/news-20230323-02.html">Further read</a>. 
+</p>
+
+
+</body>
+	
+<tags>
+	 <tag key="front-page"/>
+	 <tag key="european-parliament">European Parliament</tag>
+	 <tag key="policy">European Public Policy</tag>
+	 <tag key="european-union">European Union</tag>
+	</tags>
+
+
+<discussion href="https://community.fsfe.org/t/1037"/>  
+<image url="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/78/94/d9f6548eef03da7fac8ba80496bc.png"
+alt="EU flag with a gavel in the background and the word fail in the foreground"/>
+
+</html>
+
+ 
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