DG for Innovation and Technological Support

Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support

The Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support (ITEC) provides Parliament with information and communication technology services as well as printing and distribution services. It implements Parliament's policy of transparency and access to information and helps Parliament to work more efficiently.

Its main tasks are:

developing and maintaining a shared internal working space allowing multilingual access at any time and from any place to all vital documents and data;
as part of an innovation strategy, analysing, designing, developing and maintaining Parliament's information systems for the Members, the political groups, the Directorates-General, the European Ombudsman and the Data Protection Supervisor;
drawing up and ensuring compliance with a secure and viable technical strategy and defining all the various components of computing and telecommunications systems;
printing and distributing (also electronically) Parliament's working documents (committee meetings, plenary sittings, etc.);
publishing legislation and documents in the Official Journal (minutes, texts adopted, written questions, etc.) and producing other publications in cooperation with the Office for Official Publications.

Director-General

Walter PETRUCCI
- 1981
  Degree in Information Technology, ISIB Engineering School, Brussels
  
  From 1982 to 1986
  System administrator in engineering and banking private sectors
  
  1986
  Starts career in the EP as IT specialist in the Directorate for Information Technology (DIT) in Luxemburg
  
  1991
  Starts secondment in the political groups in Brussels
  
  From 2004 to 2011
  Head of Unit for Information and Communication Technology in the EPP Group
  
  From 2008 to 2011
  Coordinator of the political groups for ICT matter in the EP
  
  From December 2011
  Director for Innovation and Resources in DG ITEC
  
  From September 2018
  Acting Director General of DG ITEC
  
  From January 2021
  Director General of DG ITEC (Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support)