A packet switching network that was sponsored by the Commission of the EEC and became operational in 1979 is

ANS:D - Euronet

In 1970s the Council of the EEC (European Economic Community) agreed in principle to the planning of a computer network to enable data terminals located in any of the member countries to gain on-line access to scientific, technical and socio-economic information held on data bases at specific locations and establishment of a computer network which became known as EURONET. More recently the term EURONET has become associated with the Telecommunications Network alone and, for aspects concerning the terminals and the data bases.