The EU Council of Telecoms Ministers yesterday adopted a new
Regulation to implement the .eu top level domain which will be open
to European citizens, organisations and businesses.
European Commissioner Erkki Liikanen said:
"The introduction of a new .eu internet
domain will create a truly European identity in cyberspace for EU
internet users. The adoption of the .eu Regulation paves the way
for EU internet users, for the first time, to be able to have
pan-European domain names and e-mail addresses."
The adoption of the Regulation by the Telecommunications Council
follows the approval of the European Parliament in February.
The adoption of this Regulation will allow the Commission to
take the necessary steps to put the infrastructure for .eu in
place. These include the selection of a private, non-profit
organisation to manage the .eu country-code top level domain, and
the definition of rules to safeguard certain public policy
issues.
