Translation of "problème informatique de l'an " (French → English) :

In its Conclusions of 27 May 2011 on CIIP, the Council of the European Union stressed the pressing need to make ICT systems and networks resilient and secure against all possible disruptions, whether accidental or intentional, to develop across the EU a high level of preparedness, security and resilience capabilities, to upgrade technical competences to allow Europe to meet the challenge of network and information infrastructure protection, and to foster cooperation between the Member States by developing incident cooperation mechanisms between the Member States.

General IT or IT control environment problems

29. Calls on the Lithuanian authorities to adopt the necessary legislation promptly with a view to the formal establishment of a paying agency and the integrated administrative and control system; calls on the Commission to provide the country with all necessary assistance to resolve the outstanding tasks, particularly the solution of IT problems;

According to Veronica Waller of the NFU, the licensing system for animal movements did not function as it should have done, particularly because of a series of computer problems and cumbersome rules which required extensive administrative follow-up.

Since the beginning of last week, other computer problems linked to the main computer system have been sorted out, but the GroupWise blockages have not yet been solved.

4. Recalls and restates its resolution of 25 February 1999 on The Year 2000 Computer Problem, and notes that in the meantime two particular problems seem to persist: