Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit it.
First-party cookies are cookies created by the website you are visiting. The information stored in them can only be read by that website. The website may also use external services that also create their own cookies - these are third party cookies.
Persistent cookies are cookies that are stored on the user's computer and are not automatically deleted when the browser is closed, unlike session cookies, which are deleted as soon as the browser is closed.
Each time you visit the Commission's websites, you will be asked to accept or reject cookies.
The purpose of cookies is to enable a website to remember a user's preferences (such as username, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.
This way, you do not have to specify them again when you browse different pages of the website during the same visit.
Cookies may also be used to collect anonymous statistics about your browsing on our websites.
How do we use cookies?
The European Commission's websites mainly use first-party cookies. These cookies are set and controlled by the Commission and not by an external organisation.
However, some of our pages will need to accept cookies from external organisations.
We use 3 types of first-party cookies, which are designed to:
- To store visitor preferences
- keep our websites up and running
- collect analytical data (about user behaviour).
Visitor preferences
This type of cookie is set by us and only we can read their information. These cookies remember:
- whether or not you have agreed to the website's cookie policy,
- whether you have already taken part in a pop-up survey (about how useful you found the website's content) so that you are not asked to take it again.