e-IRG Task Force Report on Legal Issues

Between December 2012 and May 2013 a Task Force of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) considered the legal and regulatory issues likely to arise from the increasing use of state-funded e-Infrastructures by non-state funded researchers and organisations. Such use, on a national and international scale, appears essential to achieve the Horizon 2020 goals for a European Digital Research Area.

The Task Force report formed part of the e-IRG White Paper 2013 (long version). This document contains the text of the report and, as annexes, the individual working papers that were developed as input to the final report. These provide further detail on the following topics:

• State Aid

• Pre-Commercial Procurement and Public Procurement of Innovation

• Network Regulation

• Data Protection

• Terms of Use

• Software Licenses