OREANDA-NEWS. October 06, 2011. The European Union IT agency to be set up in Tallinn will launch next July and employ about 50 people.

The competition to fill the director post will begin in November and recruitment of staff will mainly take place next year.

The European Commission chose the date for the opening, but Interior MInister Ken-Marti Vaher said it could change.

According to current plans, the agency would start administering pan-European IT systems in the pipeline in the EU with a price tag of 1.3 billion euros.

The headquarters will be based in Estonia and the data centers will be in France and Austria.