On Tuesday 6 September, the European Commission published an implementing regulation to set up the OOTS (‘Once Only Technical System’) to allow public authorities in Member States to exchange official documents and data with EU citizens and businesses.
“This is a long-awaited step towards an efficient single market without digital barriers. With the single technical system, we are better equipped to improve the lives of European citizens and businesses and to increase the efficiency of the single market by drastically reducing red tape”, said Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton.
The OOTS will link national portals and allow citizens to provide a document only once to a public authority. If another EU public authority needs access to the same document, with the citizen’s explicit authorisation, it will be able to retrieve it via the OOTS technical system, the EU institution explains.
According to the regulation related to Regulation 2018/1724 establishing a single digital gateway (see EUROPE 12026/15), the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, had to set up a technical system for the exchange of evidence required for procedures in this regulation and various directives. This has now been achieved. This executive regulation will apply from 12 December 2023.
According to Annex II of Regulation 2018/1724, the procedures covered include: -proof of registration of birth, proof of residence, documents related to studies, such as grants and loans, admission to a higher education institution and recognition of an academic degree. Also covered are all the documents related to professional life, moving, retirement, and the life or management of a company (start-up, cessation of activity).
In the implementing regulation, the Commission indicates that one of the solutions for re-use could be the eIDAS node system on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, or eDelivery Access Points, another node network for the secure exchange of digital data.
Read the implementing regulation here: https://aeur.eu/f/2yc (Original version in French by Pascal Hansens)