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The impact of important Single Market
policies on the development of PanEuropean Services and Products
i2010 Conference
Information Society at the Crossroads
13-14 MAY 2008
Nick Leapman, telephone: +32 2 295 12 66
[email protected]
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The Issue
• Single Market legislator has increasingly
been opting for electronic solutions
• Assumption that the building blocks of the
information society are in place
• The real world is full of surprises
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Single Market Review
November 2007
Single Market policy makers want interoperability
across e-government solutions:
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ICT is essential tool to make the Single Market work
Risk that Member States opt for incompatible solutions
New “e-barriers” could emerge for end-users
Need to redouble efforts to avoid market fragmentation
and promote commonly agreed ICT solutions
• Action Plan in 2008 to promote implementation of
interoperable signatures and e-authentication
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3 Single Market initiatives that
create demand for interoperable
solutions
• SEPA and e-invoicing
• Electronic public procurement
• Services Directive
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SEPA and e-invoicing
• SEPA:
– Single Euro Payments Area aims to create a world class
payment system for the EU
• E-invoicing:
– Essential part of an efficient financial supply chain as it links the
internal processes of enterprises to the payment systems
• SEPA & E-Invoicing:
– SEPA and a successful European e-Invoicing initiative would
complement each other, by linking e-invoicing directly with
payments
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SEPA and e-invoicing
• Huge Benefits:
– Savings potential of e-Invoicing (SEPA Cap Gemini study):
• Cost reductions due to e-Invoice = 70-75% (of a paper invoice)
• Estimated potential cost savings of € 238 Billion over 6 years
• Risk:
– In many MS, individual e-invoicing initiatives are emerging:
• Risk of emergence of multiple solutions which are not interoperable
• If this risks materializes: full potential of e-invoicing will not be
achieved
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The EU FRAMEWORK for
ePROCUREMENT
A comprehensive legal and policy framework
• Entry into force of new public procurement
directives (Apr 2004)
• Transposition by MS (21 months - 31 Jan
2006) – nearly complete
• Action plan on e-procurement 2005-2007
(Dec 2004)
• i2010 eGovernment Action plan (April 2006)
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The EU LEGAL FRAMEWORK:
objective
Allow automation of full procurementto-payment process chain preserving
all existing procedural guarantees
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The EU LEGAL FRAMEWORK:
rules (1)
• Requirements for electronic communication and
receipt of offers
– Non-discrimination
– Transparency
– Fair competition
• Rules for innovative electronic purchasing
practices
– Repetitive purchases, e.g. dynamic purchasing systems
– Electronic auctions
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The EU LEGAL FRAMEWORK:
rules (2)
• Electronic means on equal footing with paper
• All stages of the procedure can be conducted
online
• Flexible and technology-neutral framework
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Implications for ICT products
and services(1)
• e-procurement creates strong demand for
specialised ICT products
– comprehensive e-procurement systems
solutions and electronic documents
– specific tools, e.g. e-auctions, e-catalogues,
Dynamic Purchasing systems (‘DPS’)
– standardised product descriptions and
inventory management solutions (e.g. product
classifications and dictionaries)
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Implications for ICT products
and services (2)
– links to B2B applications for e-ordering, einvoicing and e-payments
– user-friendly, multilingual interfaces
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Implications for ICT products
and services (3)
The challenge
– All solutions must preserve existing
procedural guarantees
– To do that they must be generally available,
non-discriminatory and interoperable
– All solutions must provide secure means of
electronic authentication and signature
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THE ECONOMIC PRIZE: What are
we talking about? (1)
• The public sector: by far the biggest buyer
in the economy
– Estimated total EU public procurement
(2006): 1.800 bn. EUR (16% of EU GDP)
– Estimated total above thresholds (TED): 370
bn. EUR
(3% of EU GDP)
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THE ECONOMIC PRIZE: What are
we talking about? (2)
• Very large savings and efficiency gains
– from e-procurement: 5% on prices, 50-80%
on transaction costs
– 5% of savings may correspond to up to 1% of
GDP
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Services Directive
• Entry into force - 28.12.2006
• Implementation – by 28.12.2009
• Objectives
– Remove barriers to the establishment of
service providers (Art. 43 ECT)
– Remove barriers to the cross border provision
of services (Art. 49 ECT)
• Horizontal nature – wide range of different
services
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Main Implementation Aspects
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Simplification of procedures
Electronic procedures
Establishment of Points of Single Contact
Mutual assistance (supported by the
Internal Market Information system - IMI)
• Rights of recipients
• Quality of services
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Electronic procedures (Article 8)
• Possibility of completion of all formalities
and procedures at a distance and by
electronic means
• Availability for national and foreign service
providers
• Cross border dimension
• Interoperability issues
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Implications for ICT products
and services
• Services Directive creates strong demand
for specialised ICT products
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Transactional software for completion of e-procedures
User-friendly multilingual interfaces
Software for back office integration
Software to create standardised forms such as form
generator
– Tools for electronic delivery of documents such as
document safes, personal web spaces
– Tools for secure electronic payment
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European Council Conclusions
13/14 March 2008
In the context of the Services Directive it is
an immediate priority to:
“Improve the functioning of the “e-Single
Market” by putting in place cross-border
interoperable solutions for electronic
signature and e-authentication”
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Main Interoperability Challenges
for the Single Market
• Electronic signatures
– Use of qualified signatures
– Use of advanced signatures
– Issues related to trust
• Electronic identification and authentication
– Different systems ranging from soft to strong ID
– Temporary solution by end of 2009
– Large Scale Pilot on e-ID aiming at interoperable EU wide solution
• Documents
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Transition from paper to electronic world
Authentication of documents
Different types and formats
Long term migration to electronic documents
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