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
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Walter PETRUCCI
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1981
Degree in Information Technology, ISIB Engineering School, BrusselsFrom 1982 to 1986
System administrator in engineering and banking private sectors1986
Starts career in the EP as IT specialist in the Directorate for Information Technology (DIT) in Luxemburg1991
Starts secondment in the political groups in BrusselsFrom 2004 to 2011
Head of Unit for Information and Communication Technology in the EPP GroupFrom 2008 to 2011
Coordinator of the political groups for ICT matter in the EPFrom December 2011
Director for Innovation and Resources in DG ITECFrom September 2018
Acting Director General of DG ITECFrom January 2021
Director General of DG ITEC (Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support)
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Directorate for Development and Support
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Steen EILERTSEN
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Director
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Directorate for Infrastructure and Equipment
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Margarida ABECASIS
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Director
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Directorate for Publishing, Innovation and Data Management
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Virpi KÖYKKÄ
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Director
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Directorate for Resouces
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Sarita KAUKAOJA
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Director
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Chief Information Systems Security Officer
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Pascal PARIDANS
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Chief ICT Security Officer
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