Who needs a European Catalogue of standards? iEU seminar 6 June 2016 Moderator: Nico Westpalm van Hoorn Chair of the Dutch Standarisation Forum

Open standards – the situation Most EU countries have a proper Open standards policy. In the Netherlands we maintain a mandatory (comply or explain) list of open standards, and a list of recommened standards. Other countries have similar initiatives. But Open standards are like ‘world peace’ : nobody is against it, meanwhile adoption and implementation are going slower than intended. What will cooperation at EU level bring us? Forum Standaardisatie2

Who needs a European Catalogue of standards? iEU seminar: Digitizing European GovServices, 6 June 2016 Benoit Abeloos – EC, DG CNECT Rodolphe Wouters – EC, DG GROW

Political Context: Digital Single Market "Moreover, availability of standards is often not sufficient to ensure interoperability, if existing standards are not integrated by suppliers in their solutions. Public procurement plays an important role in promoting standards and Member States have created national catalogues of ICT-standards and interoperability specifications to guide public procurers and accelerate standards adoption on national markets. Integrating these catalogues into European catalogues would avoid market fragmentation at EU level." COM(2015) 192 final

eGov Action Plan Published on 19 April 2016: COM(2016) 179 Action 5: Coordinate the development of a prototype for a European Catalogue of ICT standards for public procurement Target date: 2017

What problems do we want to solve? EU Catalogue Interoperability ICT Market Efficiency Effectiveness Single reference point to drive interoperability Increase the adoption rate of common standards Coordination mechanism across countries and sectors Reduce fragmentation More transparent Enables economies of scale Support for integrated procurement market places Lower cost of procurement process Greater awareness of procurement across EU Coordination mechanism Speed up procurement process Promote integration with existing platforms Support for suppliers across `EU Lower barriers Survey on ICT procurement: 42% of stakeholders perceive vendor lock-in 26% of tender notices analysed received only one offer 12% of tenders with direct reference to vendors

What exists today? National Catalogues Some Member states have defined an interoperability strategy which identifies compulsory and recommended TS for public administrations.

What do we want to build? A catalogue for (public) procurers: Based on business use cases Standards, profiles, guidelines on how to address them Consensus based and multi-stakeholders governance process Direct engagement of MS Consistency with National Catalogue

Example of Use Case: eDelivery What? Secure and reliable exchange of documents and data (structured, non- structured and/or binary), both across borders and sectors

What governance, which stakeholders? Multi-stakeholders, with MS in prime line Multi-stakeholders platform (MSP) for identifications, prioritization, link to rolling plan ISA platform for the link to EIF and national catalogues Public procurers CIOs 15 June 2016: workshop on governance workshop-on-governance-tickets

Next steps Status Study kicked off on 22 February 2016: Analysis, Establishment, Launch and operation of a European Catalogue or ICT standards for public procurement 4 domains: eGovernment, Intelligent Transport Systems, Cloud Computing, We invite you to participate to The Online survey: The workshop on governance and future events Next steps Impact assessment study (2017)

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