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All European Commission websites must be hosted on the 'europa.eu' domain and implement the global banner webtool.
Exceptions:
- for promotional purposes a ‘.eu’ web address can be reserved, and redirected to the website hosted on the ‘europa.eu’ domain. See Promotional URLs
- exceptionally, where a site is jointly owned with a third party, it may be hosted outside the ‘europa.eu’ domain. The address should be decided on with the third party, with preference given to the top-level domain ‘.eu’. DG Comm must validate this choice
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