On Monday 1 February, the European Commission launched a consultation about developing a new European interoperability framework for public services. This stage of the process, which will end on 26 April, should enable the Commission to present a communication at the end of 2021.
At the beginning of 2020, in its data strategy, the Commission explained that it wants to ensure “coordination and common standards for secure and borderless public sector data flows and services” (see EUROPE 12429/5).
The information it collects will feed into the evaluation of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF, COM (2017) 134), the final evaluation of the ISA2 programme for the period 2016-2020, and an impact assessment on a future interoperability policy. The interim evaluation of the ISA2 programme, which was finalised in 2019, has shown that poor interoperability remains a major problem.
In the shorter term, the Commission also intends to present a proposal for an initiative on digital identification in the EU by mid-2021, as requested by the European Council in early October (see EUROPE 12573/2). This system could be used voluntarily by all EU citizens and should also be accessible to private services.
Details of the consultation can be found at: http://bit.ly/3cwrR7N (Original version in French by Sophie Petitjean)