1. CEF and Business Modelling
22 June 2012
Pēteris Zilgalvis, Head of Unit
and Benoît Abeloos
Project and Policy Officer
ICT for Health Unit,
DG INFSO,
European Commission

2. Connecting Europe Facility: What is it?
Falls under the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)
Common Fund Instrument for trans-EU network (TEN) to:
Accelerate deployment of infrastructures needed at EU level
Enhance cross-border connections and tap existing gaps (e.g. tackle single market fragmentation through pan-EU ICT networks/services)
Promote territorial ‘convergence’ connecting the centre-periphery
Deploys innovative financing tools
Based on the same principles underpinning the MFF : Result-focused, simplification, conditionality, leveraging investment
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3. Policy drivers
Boost smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, in reflection of the Europe 2020 targets and the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE)
Achieve EU-wide interconnection of networks at a minimum cost
Address existing hurdles preventing full unleash of the single market
Build an environment conducive to and attractive for private investment, key to favour sustainability of financing
Establish sector-neutral common solutions, where viable.
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4. Budget lines covering ICT
ICT financing tools
Budget lines covering ICT
Horizon 2020
Common Strategic Framework for Cohesion policy
Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
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5. CEF for Telecommunications & ICT
9.2 B€ funding will cover digital services infrastructures and broadband
Objectives:
Digital services
Promote the interconnection and interoperability of national public services on-line
Increase the percentage of citizens and businesses using public services on-line
Make more public services available across borders
Investments targeted towards development, implementation, as well as the costs of running the infrastructure at European level.
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6. ICT Services of public interest
Declined along Core – Generic – Application:
High-speed backbone for public admins
Cross-border eGovernment services
eService, eProcurement, eJustice, …
Cross-border eHealth services
Multilingual access to online services
Digital resources of European heritage
Access to Public Sector Information
Safer Internet services
Smart Energy services
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7. Implications for epSOS
To help addressing issues of:
- Long term financial sustainability, due to
- Limited or no participation of private capital due to high risk, and
- No or modest ability to generate revenues from commercial exploitation in the short-medium term
CEF would provide the initial capital expenditure to launch the services on large scale, but need to find a self self-sustainable business model to cover costs
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8. Need to plan eHealth CEF deployment and governance
Type of cross-border services to be deployed and their drivers
Identification and quantification of major cost items:
Initial infra and infostructure to be deployed
Scaling up of services
Interoperability assets (open source components, specifications, mini-ontology’s…) to be developed and maintained
Helpdesk, training, dissemination,…
Governance structure involving member states
Interoperability testing and audits
Part of central versus national/regional costs
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9. Thank you for your attention!