(Amemdement au projet de loi Français pour renforcer les droits des consommateurs) Amendments to France’s draft law on ‘reinforcing consumers’ rights, protection and information’ have been proposed with the purpose of putting an end to bundled hardware/software sales, the French advocacy organisation for free software and open standards APRIL announced on 27 September 2011.

(La réglementation des marchés publics européens devrait être améliorée pour permettre un meilleur accès aux applications logicielles libres et open source) Europe’s rules on public procurement should be improved to allow better access to free and open source software applications, according to advocacy groups and the OSOR project. They responded to a public consultation by the European Commission. The groups want the rules to request free and open source licencing terms.

(l’april poursuit sa campagne contre les appels d’offres discriminatoires avec de nouvelles informations et des ressources de sensibilisation) The French advocacy organisation for free sofware and open standards April continues its campaign against discriminatory calls for tenders with new information and awareness-raising resources.

(Les administrations publiques Françaises et les marchés publics) French public administrations will be educated on how to properly procure IT solutions. April, a French association promoting free and open source software, and the National Council of Free Software (CNLL), a group representing French providers of free and open source software services, last Thursday announced a campaign to raise awareness on illegal IT procurement.

(La ville de Marseille enfreint les règles des marchés publiques d’après l’april) Plans developed by the IT department of the French city of Marseille to replace its three desktops operating systems by a single proprietary operating system, are breaking procurement rules, alleges April, an association on free software and Libertis, a association of IT service companies specialising in this type of software.

La dernière version des documents EIF présentent des dangers pour les logiciels libres.

Le nouveau gouvernement allemand entend soutenir les standards ouverts et les logiciels libres :