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Paradigm, competent regional authority for the European Commission's Interoperable Europe Act

The European Commission has adopted an Interoperable Europe Act as part of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), designed to promote the sharing of information and knowledge between EU Member States.

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The Act, which came into force on 11 April, aims to strengthen cross-border interoperability and cooperation in the public sector across the European Union, and introduces a structured, shared cooperation framework for public administrations. 

The aim is to create a network of sovereign, interconnected digital public administrations, capable of delivering better public services to citizens and businesses.

Paradigm is the competent authority for the Brussels-Capital Region! 

Achieving this

The cooperation framework of the Interoperable Europe Act affects a number of dimensions, for example the need to develop common European references for data flows; technically, the need to ensure that everyone has the same data-sharing systems; and legally, the need to ensure that data sharing is equivalent in all countries.

Who is concerned?

The Interoperable Europe Act applies to EU entities and public sector bodies that regulate, provide, manage or implement trans-European digital public services.

In this context, the European Commission has called on each Member State to designate a national SPOC and a National Competent Authority (NCA) at regional level.

External linkBOSA will be our national SPOC. Paradigm will be the National Competent Authority for the Brussels Region, while Digitaal Vlaanderen will be the authority for Flanders. No NCA has yet been identified for the Walloon Region.

Support

To encourage cross-border cooperation in the public sector, the European Commission has provided a range of support: 

  • External linkA dedicated portal offers administrations and their staff access to knowledge communities, extensive documentation, a catalogue of open-source building blocks (software), system evaluation guidelines, assessment tools and more.
  • A External linkplatform is also entirely dedicated to offering free training courses, ranging from interoperability to artificial intelligence, from the European Interoperability Framework to European licences, from data management to cybersecurity, etc. More than 15 training courses solely address the "Data, Digital & Technology" theme: take a look, and enjoy!😉
  • The European Community is also providing funding and operational assistance to interested administrations in their transition to Opens in new windowopen source* for tools such as eSign, eDelivery, chatbot, eProcurement, data platform, etc.

What next?

As the National Competent Authority for the Brussels Region, Paradigm has several recurring tasks to perform before participating in the Report to the Commission every four years: 

  • providing support for interoperability assessments
  • coordinating and promoting participation in measures
  • organising data reusability simulation exercises
  • supporting administrations in working with other States

More information coming soon!

* The Open Source designation applies to software licensed in accordance with precise criteria laid down by the Open Source Initiative, i.e. free redistribution, access to source code and the creation of derivative works. Open Source software is code designed to be accessible to the public: anyone can view, modify and distribute the code as they see fit. This source code is generally the result of collaboration between programmers.

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