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.

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