In March 2013, the Ministry for Information Society awarded a contract to an IT consortium to provide project management consulting services for the software development, training, information provision and promotion of the national small and medium enterprises (SME) portal. The portal is expected to go live in September 2013.

On 19 February 2013 the director of Grums’ municipality, Ms Margaretha Rudner, launched the municipality’s electronic services on the common electronic services platform of Värmland county (in west-central Sweden).

Since January 2013, more than 1 200 specifications have been made accessible and searchable through the Joinup Portal at http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/catalogue/all; this is a new online service launched by the European Commission to facilitate the search and re-use of specification

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.

On 18 December 2012 the European Commission adopted seven new priorities for the digital economy and society 2013-2014, following a comprehensive policy review, placing new emphasis on the most transformative elements of the 2010 Digital Agenda for Europe.

On 29 November 2012, the European Commission adopted a Green Paper consultation on an integrated delivery market to boost eCommerce in the EU.

Nine tools built under the OHIM Cooperation Fund with the involvement of more 314 Intellectual Property (IP) and IT professionals from all across Europe went live on the internet o