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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">The purpose of this email is to inform you of the recent publication of the
</span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>Call for Tenders </b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA).
</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: transparent">I</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: transparent">f you are interested in this contract, you should submit your
tender no later than <b><u>26/09/2013</u></b></span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: transparent">.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender specifications and model contract) in the
following link: </span></font></font></font></p>
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://bit.ly/16E6sfG" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/16E6sfG</a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="3"></p>
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<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">At the initiative of the
<b>Directorate General for </b></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><b>Communications Networks, Content and Technology</b> (DG
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">CONNECT),</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"> in close
cooperation with other European Commission services (DG Development and Cooperation and DG Enterprise) and the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission has put in place the No-Disconnect Strategy.</span></font></font></font><sup><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote1anc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"><sup>1</sup></a></span></font></font></font></sup><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">
The goal of this policy toolkit is </span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><b>to provide on-going support to counter-censorship and surveillance to facilitate the role of
</b></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><b>activists, political dissidents, bloggers, journalists and citizens living and/or operating in high-risk environments, or elsewhere</b></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">.
This way we </span></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">make operational our commitment to uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms online
and support that the No-Disconnect Strategy embraces the wider EU strategy for Human Rights.</span></span></font></font></font><sup><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote2anc" href="#sdfootnote2sym"><sup>2</sup></a></span></span></font></font></font></sup></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">For those who are not yet familiar with the Strategy, its four main strands of activity are:
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>(1)</b></span><span lang="en-US"> development of technological tools;
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>(2)</b></span><span lang="en-US"> training/awareness and capacity building;
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>(3)</b></span><span lang="en-US"> development of methods to provide a global capability for situational awareness; and
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>(4)</b></span><span lang="en-US"> cooperation with the ICT/Internet industry, EU Member States and third countries, also involved in the protection of online freedom of expression and privacy.
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">The tender "</span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>European capability for situational awareness</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">"
(ECSA) is aimed at providing to the European Commission the framework and information necessary to evaluate the creation of a wider
</span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><u><b>European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring, and the underlying system infrastructure required to that end.</b></u></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-weight: normal">
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<p lang="en-US" style="font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">To achieve this objective, the ICT-PSP Work Programme 2013 will support the development of the ECSA platform with an allocation of approximately
EUR 400,000 for the initial phase (conceptualization of the platform according to the conditions seth forth in the tender specifications that you will find in the link above, and the design of a first prototype of the systems infrastructure and interactive
map).</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">The idea departed partially from the “</span><span lang="en-US"><i>OECD Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy Making</i></span><span lang="en-US">”, in
particular the following two ones:</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">“<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">Develop capacities to
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><b>bring publicly available, reliable data into the policy-making process</b></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">.
Publicly available data can increase the quality of all stakeholders’ participation in Internet policy- making as well as governments’ ultimate policy decisions. The collection, validation and public dissemination of objective data to inform Internet policy
decisions should be reinforced and used to augment the combined research capacities of governments, other competent authorities and other stakeholders. International comparable metrics will help to quantify the ongoing economic developments and assess the
proportionality and effectiveness of any policy solutions created in multi-stakeholder processes. Data gathering should be undertaken so as to avoid administrative burdens and data analysis should be done carefully to enable sound policymaking.”</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">“<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>T</b></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><b>ransparency, fair process, and accountability.</b></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">
In order to build public trust in the Internet environment, policy-making processes and substantive policies that ensure transparency, fair process, and accountability should be encouraged. Transparency ensures that Internet users have timely, accessible,
and actionable information that is relevant to their rights and interests”. </span>
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</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; "><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">Is in this context in which we realized that a tool enabling evidence-based policy-making and transparency related,
in this case, to censorship and surveillance, could also provide </span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>situational awareness</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"> not only to EU policy and decision makers but also to
those affected directly by the </span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">aforementioned restrictions, maximizing their empowerment: political dissidents, activists, human rights defenders, bloggers, journalists and several other essential actors
in the fight for online (and offline) freedom.</span></font></span>
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<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">Now,
</span></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><b>shifting the focus of this email to the tender itself</b></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">,
the tasks outlined in the tender specifications (<a href="http://bit.ly/16E6sfG">http://bit.ly/16E6sfG</a>) will address, among several other things, the definition of the governance framework and systems infrastructure that should govern and support the operations
of the federation of organizations that tenderers will have to propose, taking into account that all sorts of expertise on Internet-event monitoring will be needed.
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">With the view to translate the Internet reality into a “</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>cartography</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">”
of cyber-censorship and cyber-surveillance, the federation will be anchored in a dynamic platform -controlled from a
</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">dashboard</span></i></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">-, where the aforementioned federated network of
partners with Internet and censorship/surveillance monitoring capabilities will aggregate a variety of clearly defined sets of data (including Open Data and Big Data) coming from several sources and stakeholders. </span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">We expect this project to provide reliable and real time or near-real time information on the status of network connectivity and
network traffic alterations/restrictions, as well as timely information on legal, social and political developments related to the use of the Internet and media for the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">As it seems obvious, the gathering of data (and in some cases of information) will be related to the location and intensity of cyber-censorship
and surveillance in non-democratic countries, nascent democracies, jurisdictions where human rights are most at risk or other parts of the globe where similar trends</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal">
</span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">have been arising in recent times.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">The data gathering will have
</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>two tracks</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">: the
</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>first</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal"> one addressing restrictions/disruptions of Internet and ICT infrastructure, access, traffic,
content, Internet cut-offs or security events, </span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">inter alia</span></i></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">,
overlaid with a </span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>second</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal"> track of contextual data of political, social, legal, regulatory, policy, media,
journalistic or human rights nature, related to the Internet or not and with a global scope, which would help provide the full picture and enable the EU and other actors to swiftly act upon reliable and timely information. Examples of this second track could
be arrests of journalists, restrictions on freedom of expression in times of elections, laws affecting Internet openness, crack-downs on activists or restriction to NGO´s establishment, to name a few.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">That near-real time information will be mashed-up and controlled from the dashboard, and presented in a user-friendly manner, ideally
in different layers (thematic, geographic, highly troubled areas, etc.) through </span>
</span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>interactive visualizations via live maps as an essential condition,
</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">coupled with the generation of alarms; subject-matter reports and geographical reports. As you will see in the tender, new ways of dissemination of information are
most welcome.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US" style="font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">As highlighted before, this type of capability is expected to enhance the current EU´s early-warning, decision-making and policy-making skills
and strengthen the level of situational awareness of, but not limited to, stakeholders such as digital activists or human rights defenders, but even researchers.</font></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US" style="font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">In particular, the tasks you will find in the tender are:</font></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Task 1 Creation of an Internet censorship monitoring Federation</b></font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Task 2 Provision of a Data Sources catalogue</b></font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Task 3 Definition of a Data Governance Framework</b></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>Task 4 Definition of the technical and infrastructure specifications, features and functionalities</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>
(including security measures)</b></span></font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Task 5 Recommendations</b></font></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal">Some of the expected positive impacts of ECSA we can name are as follows:
</span></font><font color="#000000"><b>(1)</b></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal"> Ensuring
</span></font>Internet resilience and stability; <b>(2)</b> <font color="#000000">
<span style="font-weight: normal">Reinforcement of early-warning capabilities and emergency response
</span></font>concerning events affecting human rights, legal, policy and media restrictions;
<b>(3) </b>Better measurement of the evolution of non-democratic environments to democratic ones ("<i>democracy thermometer</i>");
<b>(4) </b>Better exchange of information and capacity building among relevant stakeholders;
<b>(5) </b>Better response in case of attacks to human rights and activists networks;
<b>(6)</b> Creation of a body of knowledge at the disposal of academics and researchers, as well as of the general public (Open Science);
<b>(7) </b>Publication of timely reports and alarms on relevant Internet and human rights related events (including activity and threat reports);
<b>(8) </b><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal">Support to the implementation of Human Rights-based approaches;
</span></font><font color="#000000"><b>(9)</b></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal"> Optimization of resources and tailored targeted grant support in areas where human rights are most at risk in terms of cyber censorship and surveillance;
</span></font><font color="#000000"><b>(10)</b></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal"> Reinforcement of capabilities to ensure global Internet connectivity;
</span></font><font color="#000000"><b>(11)</b></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal"> Provide (new) methods for network measurement;
</span></font><font color="#000000"><b>(12)</b></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal"> Provision of a new source of information about
</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal">Internet security and infrastructure incidents; or
</span></font><font color="#000000"><b>(13)</b></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal"> Provision of capabilities for crisis mapping, among others.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">In
</span><b>Part 1 of the Tender specifications</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> you will find the</span><b> Technical Description</b><span style="font-weight: normal">, containing the general context, the specific context and e</span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal">xamples
of organisations and existing projects in the area of Internet monitoring (whereby some of your projects we regularly observe are mentioned).</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">As regards the
</span><b>Elegibility Criteria</b><span style="font-weight: normal">, we recommend you to have a look in detail at
</span><b>Part</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> </span><b>2 of the Tender Specifications</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> containing the Administrative Details, in particular Section 1 “</span><b>Elegibility requirements</b><span style="font-weight: normal">”;
Section 2 “</span><b>Administrative Requirements</b><span style="font-weight: normal">”; Section 5.2 “</span><b>Selection Criteria</b><span style="font-weight: normal">” and Section 5.3 “</span><b>Award Criteria</b><span style="font-weight: normal">”.</span></font></font></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">At the request of tenderers, additional information will be communicated solely for the purpose of clarifying the nature of the contract and the tender
specifications. Such information will have to be communicated on the same date to all interested parties hence your questions will be published in the link referred to in the document “invitation to the tender” (<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/l1626" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/l1626</a>).
This means that for whatever doubt you may have, you can write directly to </span>
</font></font></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:camino.MANJON@ec.europa.eu"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">camino.MANJON@ec.europa.eu</span></font></font></a></u></span></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">
(copying our functional mailbox </span></font></font></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:CNECT-D1@ec.europa.eu"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">CNECT-D1@ec.europa.eu</span></font></font></a></u></span></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">).
We will do so for transparency reasons and to guarantee equal competition, making publicly available both, question and answers.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">The
</span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>opening of received tenders</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"> will take place on
</span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>10/10/2013</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"> at
</span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>10.00h</b> </i></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal">in the Commission building located in Avenue de Beaulieu 25, Brussels. One authorised representative
of each tenderer may attend such opening. Tenderers who plan to attend the opening session have to inform me (</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ms Camino Manjon Sierra)
</i></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal">by e-mail camino.MANJON@,ec.europa.eu; by fax (+32 2 296 89 70) or letter at least 72h in advance.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; ">I adva<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">nce a
</span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>clerical mistake</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"> in the section referring to the information to be stated in the outer envelope when you send us over your tenders: "INVITATION
TO TENDER </span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>SMART </b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">2013/N004 /
</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>FULL OJ REF" "NOT TO BE OPENED
</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">BY THE MESSENGER/COURIER SERVICE"
</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>"NOT TO BE OPENED
</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">BY THE OPENING COMMITTEE BEFORE
</span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background: #ffff00">16</span></span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background: transparent">/9/2013</span></span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">",
where 16/9/2013 should be </span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background: #ffff00">26</span></span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">/09/2013.</span></span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="3">
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<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">As a closing, I would like to sincerely thank my colleague and mentor Andrea Glorioso for his support in the firs steps of
this complex project and for conducting our European Capability Situational Awareness workshop celebrated in November 2012, when due to a contractual pause before my current position in the European Commission I could not be on the driving seat or provide
any out of the box thinking! </span></font></font></font></p>
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<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">I take the opportunity to also sincerely thank all those organizations which took part in the workshop
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">(Agenda available at </font></font></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf//document.cfm?doc_id=1094"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf//document.cfm?doc_id=1094</font></font></a></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">).</span></font></font></font></u></span></font></p>
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</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; ">We look forward to receiving your proposals and we thank you all for the good inspiration that your work has meant for us.</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="3">
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