IP/06/586

Brussels, 5 2006

European institutions’ new Web identity to celebrate Day, 9 May.

The European institutions’ sites will start operating under the “.eu” top level domain on 9 May 2006, Europe Day. It means that they can now use this domain to project their own web identity, as EU citizens have been able to do since 7 April 2006. The institutions’ internet addresses will change to the “. eu” suffix as of 9 May 2006.

Margot Wallström, Vice-President of , responsible for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy, said: “The new web identity of the Institutions is symbolic. The EU should focus less on “.institutions” but more on “ .Europeans”. The “.eu” domain will make EU more visible on the Internet, also to its citizens.” .eu will become the single Internet “brand” of, and the single online entry point to, all the EU institutions and agencies. All the EU institutions and agencies are moving under EUROPA, and their addresses become part of the “europa.eu” family. (See annex). The institutions’ current “.eu.int” addresses will continue to be accessible for a transitional period of at least one year. The new “.eu” internet domain, which was launched under the responsibility of Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding, opened for everybody on 7 April 2006 (see IP/06/476), and has proven immensely popular, with over one million names registered to date. Implementation of the infrastructure changes has been assured by the by the Directorate General Informatics, under the responsibility of Vice-President Kallas. Further info on .eu, Europe’s own internet domain: MEMO/06/159 New addresses of the Institutions, Agencies and other Bodies at the third level domain within the TLD .eu

Correspondence between old and new URLs

Old URLs New URLs All institutions http://europa.eu http://europa.eu.int Parliament http://europarl.europa.eu http://europarl.eu.int Council http://consilium.europa.eu http://consilium.eu.int Commission http://ec.europa.eu http://europa.eu.int/comm/ Court of Justice http://curia.europa.eu http://curia.eu.int Court of Auditors http://eca.europa.eu http://eca.eu.int/ Ombudsman http://ombudsman.europa.eu http://euro-ombudsman.eu.int Data Protection Supervisor http://edps.europa.eu http://edps.eu.int/ Economic and Social Committee http://eesc.europa.eu http://esc.eu.int http://cese.europa.eu http://ces.eu.int

Committee of the Regions http://cor.europa.eu http://cor.eu.int/ http://cdr.europa.eu http://www.cor.eu.int/fr/index.htm http://bei.europa.eu http://bei.eu.int/ http://eib.europa.eu http://eib.eu.int http://fei.europa.eu http://fei.eu.int/ http://eif.europa.eu http://eif.eu.int European Environment Agency http://eea.europa.eu http://eea.eu.int/

2 European Environment http://eionet.europa.eu Information and Observation

Network http://eionet.eu.int/ European Reconstruction Agency http://ear.europa.eu (Kosovo) http://ear.eu.int European Medicines Agency http://emea.europa.eu http://emea.eu.int European Agency for Safety and http://osha.europa.eu Health at Work http://osha.eu.in European Aviation Safety Agency http://easa.europa.eu http://easa.eu.int European Maritime Safety Agency http://emsa.europa.eu http://emsa.eu.int/ European Food Safety Authority http://efsa.europa.eu http://efsa.eu.int/ Translation Centre for the Bodies http://cdt.europa.eu of the http://cdt.eu.int/ European Centre for the http://cedefop.europa.eu Development of Vocational

Training http://cedefop.eu.int European Union Satellite Centre http://eusc.europa.eu http://eusc.org/ European Training Foundation http://etf.europa.eu http://etf.eu.int/ European Foundation for the http://eurofound.europa.eu Improvment of Living and Working

Conditions http://eurofound.eu.int European Union Institute for http://iss.europa.eu Security Studies http://iss-eu.org/ European Monitoring Centre for http://emcdda.europa.eu Drugs and Drug Addiction http://emcdda.eu.int/ Community plant variety office http://cpvo.europa.eu http://cpvo.eu.int

3 Office for Harmonisation of http://oami.europa.eu Internal Market http://ohmi.eu.int/ http://oami.eu.int/ European Police Office http://europol.europa.eu http://europol.eu.int/ The European Union’s Judicial http://eurojust.europa.eu Cooperation Unit http://eurojust.eu.int European Network and http://enisa.europa.eu Information Security Agency http://enisa.eu.int/ European Centre for Disease http://ecdc.europa.eu Prevention and Control or http://ecdc.eu.int http://ecdpc.europa.eu

European Defence Agency http://eda.europa.eu http://eda.eu.int/ Publications Office http://publications.europa.eu http://publications.eu.int European Personnel Selection http://epso.europa.eu Office http://europa.eu.int/epso Conference of Community and http://cosac.eu European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union http://cosac.org European Railway Agency http://era.europa.eu European Chemicals Agency http://echa.europa.eu European Agency for the http://frontex.europa.eu Management of Operational

Cooperation at the External Borders (FRONTEX) European Monitoring Centre on http://eumc.europa.eu Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) http://eumc.eu.int

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