European Interoperability Framework (EIF) evaluation and EU governments interoperability strategy

Okta (Transparency Register number 985910748406-44), the leading global identity and access management company, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed regulation for an EU Interoperable Europe Act. Please find our comments in the attached paper.

Local authorities recognise the value of the interoperability of network and information systems as an important enabler of scaled advantages for better (digital) public services in Europe. The proposal by the Commission contains promising support measures in favour of improved cross-border interoperability.

Interoperability is a cornerstone of a well-functioning single market and European data economy. The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) plays a key role in advancing interoperability by drawing attention to all four layers of interoperability (legal, organisational, semantic, technical) and making recommendations from that starting point.

The City of Stockholm welcomes the European Commissions proposal for an Interoperable Europe Act, but also shares the concerns raised by SALAR/ SKR (as attached) regarding the proposals implementation at local level. Particularly so in regards to the perceived lack of clarity on the proposals subject matter, i.e.

The feedback of The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) is summarized in attached appendix. SALAR is overall positive to the regulation where the benefits are obvious and, in the long term, gains the citizens and organisations within the inner market.

As we wrote last year in https://cnll.fr/media/ReponseCNLLconsultation__PacteProductifNumerique2019_Final.pdf or 8 years ago in https://cnll.fr/media/propositions_cnll_fleurpellerin.pdf we consider it essential to define and implement a European interoperability policy, in particular in order to enable businesses to interact with the information systems of the administrations (including at events such as trivial but…

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To support the upcoming evaluation of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), OpenForum Europe (OFE) is glad to contribute suggestions to improve this successful policy instrument. The EIF is a highly relevant policy instrument providing the basis for interoperable, cross-border services, making a real world impact for citizens.

The Interoperability Working Group of INATBA gathers expertise from a diverse range of stakeholders, which welcome the revision and evaluation of the EIF and under the broader scope of the ISA2 Programme. Interoperability has never been as important as during this worldwide pandemic. The EIF is essential in providing the right instruments for blockchain to be an enabler during the current digital revolution.

To ensure the interoperability of public services in the EU it is key to strengthen open standards and Free Software. Citizens demand more and more open, efficient, borderless, interoperable solutions. Also they ask for user-friendly, personalized solutions being trustworthy, (E2EE) secure and respecting fundamental rights, like the right to privacy.

Interoperability is essential to establish a consistent, sustainable, and trustworthy European ecosystem for cross-border digital services which includes citizens and the private sector; a retrospective on the current EIF is then important.

Challenges: In the various European countries there is a different speed of enforcement of eGovernment. These dif-ferences are related to general security concerns in digitalisation. Many citizens do not have so often to contact authorities for that digitalisation of public infrastructure can offer them a real advantage.

In view of the rapid development of tools and services built around (linked) open government data, the evaluation of the European interoperability framework (EIF) and of the much broader ISA2 programme is both timely and important. The Hellenic OCR Team, which is designing methods and building tools for the processing and analysis of public data, sees there a broad field for the democratization of public knowledge.