In July 2011, the Lithuanian Government decided to simplify the civil status registration procedures that involve the issuance of paper-based birth, death, marriage or divorce certificates.

In July 2012, the Cadastre and Topography Administration of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg launched a new application that enables users to order online cadastral extracts.

On 6 July 2012, the Council of Ministers approved a project enabling online declaration of work accidents.

The Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) announced that its new Data Centre in Santa Venera, MITA-01, has won the prestigious Public Sector Data centre Project of the Year in the 2012 Datacentre Solutions Awards held on 23 May 2012 in London.

Public administrations that grasp the benefits of making their data publicly available will increase their use of free and open source since open data and open source face comparable threats like initial lack of support and a fear for the impact on organizations, according to a number of experts in open data.

A workshop held by a Group of Swedish Academics in the city of Skövde on Tuesday 14 June 2012 marked the beginning of a three-year research project to build a reference model for open standards and open source,  aiming to improve understanding of open standards and their implementations in open source.

An Internet top-level domain name server (DNS) implementation, developed for Europe's .eu Top-Level Domain (TLD) was made available on 28 June 2012 as open source by Eurid, during a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) taking place in Prague, Czech Republic.

Germany's software applications for procurement will gradually be made available as open source.

Geo.admin.ch, the geoportal of the Swiss Confederation won the second prize of the 2012 United Nations Public Service Awards in the category 'Advancing Knowledge Management in Government' for Europe and North America.

The Fire Services in Friesland, a province in the North of the Netherlands, combines many open source components in its system for a real-time analysis of emergency information.

The European Commission's central information service, Europe Direct, is mainly relying on open source tools. Over the past years, the firm running the call centre on behalf of the EC, replaced many proprietary software applications with open source alternatives.

The value and quality of open source solutions are the main reasons for the Dutch municipalities to switch to this type of software, says Willem van Uijthoven, IT manager for the municipality of Rheden in the eastern Netherlands.

The European Commission is setting an example by making its software for electronic procurement available as open source, said Michel Barnier, the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, at the 1st Annual Conference on eProcurement