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Main results of the Competitiveness Council

Added 5/30/2016
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European Council - Press release - 27 May 2016
Following a debate on open science, the Council adopted conclusions on the transition towards an open science system. The Council also assessed progress on the digital single market strategy one year on from the launch of the strategy.
Research and Innovation
It also adopted conclusions on the lessons learnt from the 7th research framework programme and the future outlook and on the creation of a friendly regulatory environment for research and innovation.

Internal Market - Industry - Space policy
The Council agreed on the main principles to ensure portability of online content services in the internal market, adopted conclusions on digital single market technologies and the modernisation of public services, discussed the impact of digitalisation on productivity of the services sector under the competitiveness check-up and discussed ways of improving the uptake of space data from European space programmes to create growth and jobs

To ensure that these and future actions benefit from an innovation-friendly environment, the Council adopted conclusions on better regulation.

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