1. Steering Committee June 8th, 2016
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Steering Committee
June 8th, 2016

2. Agenda
Documents and presentations of the project to the different governance bodies. (10')
Progress status of ESDEN. Current status and next steps. (30')
Planned actions for the collaboration of the ESS Members: (10')
AOB (10')

3. Governance bodies
Vision Implementation Group and Network, February 2016
IT Working Group, May 2016
ESSC, May 2016

4. Survey VIN, 2016 Q1 Benefits Barriers and risks
Capability to securely exchange confidential micro-data
Opportunity to extend this benefit to other statistical domains beyond SIMSTAT
Barriers and risks
Complexity of involving many stakeholders
Dependency on third-party at the national level
Availability of resources for the deployment and the integration with the existing national solutions
Need to adhere to national security protocols

5. Progress status - planning
Phase 1 ( )
Secure network infrastructure for the pilot on microdata exchange for project SIMSTAT
Phase 2 ( )
Connect rest of ESS members to the secure network infrastructure
Extend the data exchange services to other statistical domains
Phase 3 (2018)
Integrate with new generations of secure networks

6. Connection of ESS members
European networks converging
CCN migrating to TESTA
Different presence in ESS Members
CCN: located in Taxations and Customs administrations
TESTA: located in National Networks
Proof-of-concept to evaluate TESTA services
Grants
ESSNet
- 2 work packages foreseen, 3 workshops to be organised, report to be produced.
- Eurostat working currently on the technical problems derived from the end of support of Java on the browsers (WebForms and secure upload).
- The project would like to incorporate other requirements from ESS Members.

7. Extension to other domains
Modernisation of EDAMIS
Migration of applet-based functionality
Use of ESDEN for other
Currently: tightly coupled with SIMSTAT
Future
Integration with EDAMIS
Development of web services
Use of standards, automation
Make it easier to integrate with national infrastructures
Grants
ESSNet
- 2 work packages foreseen, 3 workshops to be organised, report to be produced.
- Eurostat working currently on the technical problems derived from the end of support of Java on the browsers (WebForms and secure upload).
- The project would like to incorporate other requirements from ESS Members.

8. Involvement of ESS Members
Grants
To help ESS Members in the effort to connect to secure European networks
ESSNet
To allow ESS Members to contribute to the definition of the requirements of ESDEN
To collaborate in the testing of the software delivered by the project
Grants
ESSNet
- 2 work packages foreseen, 3 workshops to be organised, report to be produced.
- Eurostat working currently on the technical problems derived from the end of support of Java on the browsers (WebForms and secure upload).
- The project would like to incorporate other requirements from ESS Members.

9. Phase 2 – Timeline Action When
Enhancement of the ESDEN software developed by Eurostat to further automate the data exchange 
2016 Q1
Launch of connectivity grants to help the remaining countries to connect to the secure network
2016 Q3
Connection of the remaining countries to the secure network
2016 Q4
Launch of ESSNet for the collaboration of the countries
Modernisation of the Single Entry Point based on the results of the first phase of the project
2017 Q4

10. The future – phase 3 At the end of phase 2:
Assessment of the services of the new generation of the secure network
Consultation with the ESSC on the implementation of phase 3
If approved
Upgrade the network connection to the new generation of EC secure network
Kick-off production operations: go-live