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<div class="page-header py-5 text-center"> <h1 class="page-header__title"> Policy </h1> </div> <div class="content container mb-5"> <main role="main"> <div id="main-content" tabindex="-1"></div> <div class="layout-content"> <div id="block-iop-pagetitle" class="block block-core block-page-title-block"> <div class="page-title page__title-wrapper my-4"> <h1 class="page-title__title"> <span>Interoperable Europe Act</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/node/704810" title="Permalink"> <svg class="bi icon--m" ><use xlink:href="/themes/ventuno/assets/icons/icons.svg#link-45deg"/></svg> </a> </h1> <div class="page-title__details mb-4"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-iop-content" class="block block-system block-system-main-block"> <article> <div> <div class="banner paragraph--layout paragraph"> <div class="layout layout--twocol-section--50-50 l-ventuno--layout_twocol_section row"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_twocol_section__region-first col-md-6 layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="paragraph--simple-paragraph paragraph"> <h2><a><strong>The Interoperable Europe Policy</strong></a></h2> <p>In November 2022, the Commission proposed the Interoperable Europe Act to strengthen interoperability in the public sector. Interoperability allows administrations to cooperate and make public services function across territorial, sectoral and organisational boundaries, while those administrations remain sovereign actors at all levels of government.</p> <p>Citizens and businesses across the EU expect high quality public services from their administrations. Public service delivery rarely functions in isolation. Before the final delivery to the end-user, data must often be exchanged between different public authorities. This exchange happens foremost locally, but also substantially at regional, national and European levels and requires interoperability.</p> <p>Despite efforts in recent decades, some barriers remain in the field of interoperability and digitalisation of public services across Europe. This results in citizens and businesses experiencing troubles when they try to access digital services with more than one EU member state involved.</p> </div> </div> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_twocol_section__region-second col-md-6 layout__region layout__region--second"> <div class="paragraph--image d-flex col-gap-3 row-gap-3 justify-content-start paragraph"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2022-11/TWITTER%20POST%201024x512px111_modified%20round%20corners.png" width="1008" height="678" alt="interoperable_europe_act" class="img-fluid" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--layout paragraph"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_onecol layout"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_onecol__region-content layout__region layout__region--content"> <div class="paragraph--simple-paragraph paragraph"> <p>One of the challenges lies in the fact that interoperability considerations are currently not sufficiently "wired into" new public services. Furthermore, digital matters are still too often addressed too late in the policy making process.</p> <p>This situation results in unintended costly and time-consuming administrative burden for administrations, citizens and companies until this day.</p> <p>The <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52021DC0118">EU’s digital ambition for 2030</a> and the remaining gaps in the actual uptake and implementation of interoperability have showed the necessity of creating a reinforced and more strategic interoperability policy with strengthened cooperation between the Member States and the EU Institutions on public sector interoperability. have showed the necessity of creating a reinforced and more strategic interoperability policy with strengthened cooperation between the Member States and the EU Institutions on public sector interoperability.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--layout paragraph"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_onecol layout"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_onecol__region-content layout__region layout__region--content"> <div class="paragraph--simple-paragraph paragraph"> <h2><strong>The Road towards an Interoperable Europe </strong></h2> <p>The Interoperable Europe Act aims to solve these challenges by creating the setup and tools for interoperability within public administrations on a Union-wide scale and remove the unnecessary legal, organisational, semantical and technical obstacles. This way, in analogy with trans-European Transport and Energy Networks, a "network of networks" of sovereign, interconnected public administrations (at all levels of government) across the EU will emerge.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--layout paragraph"> <div class="layout layout--twocol-section--50-50 l-ventuno--layout_twocol_section row"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_twocol_section__region-first col-md-6 layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="paragraph--image d-flex col-gap-3 row-gap-3 justify-content-start paragraph"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2022-11/MicrosoftTeams-image%20%283%29.png" width="1008" height="529" alt="interoperable_europe_policy" class="img-fluid" /> </div> </div> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_twocol_section__region-second col-md-6 layout__region layout__region--second"> <div class="paragraph--simple-paragraph paragraph"> <p>To achieve this goal, the initiative proposes:</p> <ul> <li><strong>A structured and co-owned EU cooperation</strong> on interoperability that brings together public administrations, supported by public and private actors.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><strong>Mandatory interoperability assessments</strong> to evaluate the impact of changes in IT systems and related digital services.</li> <li><strong>The share and reuse of interoperability solutions</strong>, powered by an <strong>‘Interoperable Europe Portal’</strong> – a one-stop-shop for solutions, and a community platform.</li> <li><strong>Innovation and support measures</strong>, including regulatory sandboxes and GovTech cooperation, to promote policy experimentation, developing skills and the scaling up of interoperability solutions for reuse.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--layout paragraph"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_onecol layout"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_onecol__region-content layout__region layout__region--content"> <div class="paragraph--simple-paragraph paragraph"> <h2><strong>Win-win for all</strong></h2><p><a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/interoperable-europe/news/official-expert-recommendations-new-interoperability-policy">EU Member States have stressed</a> the need for strengthening the European interoperability cooperation. Among others, the ministerial declarations signed in 2017 in Tallinn and 2020 in <a href="https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/EN/2020/12/berlin-declaration-digitalization.html#:~:text=Digital%20Government%22%20signed-,Germany&apos;s%20Presidency%20of%20the%20Council%20of%20the%20EU%3A%20%22Berlin%20Declaration,Value%2DBased%20Digital%20Government%22%20signed&text=State%20Secretary%20Dr%20Markus%20Richter,on%20democratic%20values%20and%20principles.%22">Berlin</a> attest to this urgency. Likewise, EU citizens from the <a href="https://futureu.europa.eu/pages/reporting?format=html&locale=en">Conference on the Future of Europe</a> made the call to facilitate cross-border interoperability. </p><p>Facilitating public sector interoperability is a fundamental prerequisite for enhancing and completing all the existing facets of the Digital Single Market. Public administrations that cooperate cross border can become as interoperable as trains crossing borders, or energy flows between national networks. The road towards it provides important opportunities for public sector efficiency, economic growth, customer satisfaction and innovation. Several case studies also show that interoperability positively affects other public values , such as improving trust from citizens in their governments. </p><h2><strong>Next- steps</strong></h2><p>This proposed Act has been designed in cooperation with the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3714">Expert Group on interoperability of European public services</a>, which consists of the representatives from all EU member states and observatory countries. Next to their recommendations, the Act strongly takes in regard the results of a public consultation, and three independent studies that have been conducted by the Centre for European Policy Studies (<a href="http://www.ceps.eu/">CEPS</a>). These three studies evaluated the implementation of the ISA² programme and the EIF, and assessed the impact of the new interoperability strategy on specific stakeholder groups and on the functioning of the Single Market.the new interoperability strategy on specific stakeholder groups and on the functioning of the Single Market.</p><p>The Council of the EU and the European Parliament have reached a <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/interoperable-europe/news/political-agreement-interoperable-europe-act">political agreement</a> in November 2023. The official adoption is expected in early 2024. While previous interoperability activities in the past were funded via ISA² Programme, the new initiative is funded by the Digital Europe Programme.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--layout--light paragraph--layout paragraph"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_onecol layout"> <div class="l-ventuno--layout_onecol__region-content layout__region layout__region--content"> <div class="paragraph--simple-paragraph paragraph"> <h2>More info</h2> </div> <div class="paragraph--call-to-action d-flex col-gap-3 row-gap-3 justify-content-start flex-wrap paragraph"> <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/interoperable-europe-act-proposal_en" class="cta">Interoperable Europe Act</a> </div> <div class="paragraph--call-to-action d-flex col-gap-3 row-gap-3 justify-content-start flex-wrap paragraph"> <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/com2022710_0.pdf" class="cta">Communication</a> </div> <div class="paragraph--call-to-action d-flex col-gap-3 row-gap-3 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