The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, and especially video-conferencing, can allow child victims to take an active part in the proceedings while not being put in direct contact with the accused persons.

In order to speed up the decision-making process, national standardisation bodies and European standardisation organisations should facilitate accessible information on their activities through the promotion of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in their respective standardisation systems, for example by providing to all relevant stakeholders an easy-to-use online consultation mechanism for the submission of comments on draft standards and by organising virtual meetings, including by means of web conferencing or video conferencing, of technical committees.

A large number of Member States have introduced videoconferencing systems to accelerate judicial procedures by facilitating the hearing of witnesses or of the parties.

PC-based system (cannot print/copy/scan without use of significant PC resources)

According to the preliminary assessment Microsoft is dominant on the market for client PC operating systems.

In order to test the feasibility of establishing a transport information system to support policy making it has been decided to launch under the 4th FP a practical trial application, the "Pilot for an Alpine Transport Information System (ATIS) ".