Brussels, 30/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 29 September, the Commission presented a proposal to the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers for a new programme for the period 2010-15: “Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations” (ISA).
In a press release, the Commission explained that “electronic barriers at national borders are the main challenge of the new era”. It emphasised that to avoid the creation of electronic barriers (e-barriers) between European administrations, the member states and the Commission need to strengthen their efforts to ensure barrier-free communication within the internal market. This explains the reasons for Monday's decision to launch the ISA programme and support and promote cooperation between national administrations in Europe.
ISA's main focus is on providing cross-border solutions for public administrations by making available common frameworks, common services and generic tools, and promoting re-use as well as exchange of experience and good practices. ISA is the follow-on programme to the IDABC programme (interoperable delivery of pan-European e-government services to administrations, businesses and citizens) which comes to an end in December 2009. The IDABC programme was itself launched in January 2005 as the successor of the IDA programme “interchange of data between administrations”. (O.L./transl.rh)