[eccr] Council adopts '.EU' and e-accessibility Resolution

Title: Council adopts '.EU' and e-accessibility Resolution

Council adopts '.EU' and e-accessibility Resolution

In short:
During its meeting of 25 March the Telecoms Council adopted a Resolution on the accessibility of public websites, discussed eEurope 2005 and approved the '.EU' domain name. 
  



Issues:
The meeting of the Transport and Telecommunications Council on 25 March covered: 

*    Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA): a debate on inclusion of non-Member States and the adaption of the IDA programme to e.g. new eEurope plans; 
*    Trans-European Telecom networks: a general orientation, Ministers expressed a desire to come to an agreement in first reading in EP; 
*    Accessibility of public websites: adoption of Council Resolution on e-accessibility; 
*    eEurope 2005: a debate focussed on broadband, accessibilty, e-government, e-content and IPv6; 
*    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): an update on the state of play of internet governence; 
*    '.EU' top level domain name: the adoption of the Regulation. 
The Council also debated the issues of illegal content and e-security. 

Next steps:

*    The ICANN structure features on the agenda of the EU-US Information Society Dialogue on 11 April 2002; 
*    An eEurope 2005 Action Plan is to be presented to the Telecommunications Council of 17-18 June and will be submitted to the Sevilla Council on 21-22 June 2002; 
*    During the first half of 2004 the Commission is to provide the Council with a progress report on e-accessibility; 

Source: http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/461204-52?targ=1&204&OIDN=1503190