In January 2013, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Steven Vanackere, and the Minister for the Budget and Administrative Simplification, Olivier Chastel, announced the launch of a website on electronic invoicing to encourage its use and reach the EU target of making 50 % of invoicing electronically by 2020.

On 14 December 2012, the Government of La Rioja - an autonomous community and a province of northern Spain - approved via its governing council a decree to regulate electronic communications and notifications to citizens; the communication among the various bodies of the autonomous community and other public agencies are also included in the decree.

The Ministry of Public Administration and Justice announced in November 2012 that in the following months it will carry out a review of the legislative process, which is necessary for the implementation of electronic public services.

On 16 October 2012, during the 14th annual conference ‘Greek ICT Forum’, the Deputy Minister of the Public Administrative Reform and eGovernment, Manousos Voloudakis, presented some of the Ministry’s key policy steps in the field of eGovernment.

According to the proposed national Budget 2013, the government’s aim is to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to deliver better services at lower administrative costs.

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.

The Ministry of Information Society and Administration (MISA) announced the launch of a public procurement procedure for the development of a project called ‘eReminder’; its purpose is to send reminders via email or SMS to citizens regarding their administrative obligations towards public institutions.

The Decree on the framework for the provision of eGovernment services was published in the Official Government Gazette on 27 April 2012.

The citizens of Bologna (city and province) have recently been able to activate their electronic health records (EHRs) and thus manage their health data easily via the Internet.

On 19 October 2011, the Ministry of Public Administration (MPA) launched Minus 25, a website aimed at informing the public about government efforts on administrative burden reduction.

A government report released on 7 October 2011 shows that in the past 12 months, significant steps have been taken in the drive to cut unnecessary spending and pave the way for a single government web domain.

The 'Suomi.fi' portal, the one-stop service of public administration for citizens, has undergone changes to improve its usability.

Four new municipalities have opted to participate in the 'Simplex for Municipalities'

Philippe Muyters, the Flemish Minister for Finance, Budget, Work, Town and Country Planning and Sport, announced in March 2011 that the project Digital Planning Application (Digitale Bouwaanvraag, in Dutch) would launch a field trial in conjunction with the City of Antwe