European Catalogue of standards

MSP, 16 June 2016

Benoit Abeloos – EC, DG CNECTRodolphe 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 2016-2020

• 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-in26% of tender notices analysed received only one offer12% 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

Link with Identification procedure

• The European Catalogue will prioritise the TS to be identified, ensuring relevance, coherence within a use case, and link to procurement needs at EU level.

• Done with MS, through the European Catalogue governance

• Could simplify the evaluation part of the identification procedure within the MSP by reusing evaluations done at national level

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

Governance workshops

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Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Strawman 1: MS driven and EC managed

Assisting the Board of Reviewers.

Resources provided by the EC

Teams of technical experts organised by domains

MANAGEMENT TEAM (MT)

Responsible for the operation of the EU Catalogue. Comprising a chairman from the most relevant DG and the head of each

expert group. All part of EC and selected by EC

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

Responsible for a Domain Led by DG CONNECT and comprising independent

external experts

Responsible for Domain Led by DG ENERGY and comprising independent

external experts

Responsible for a Domain Led by DG MOVE and

comprising independent external experts

Lea by most relevant DG and comprising independent

external experts

Restricted MSP

GROWTH CONNECT

GROWTH CONNECT

GROWTH CONNECT

CONNECT CONNECT ENERGY MOVE OTHER DG

Domain relevant civil society

organisations

Procurement platforms

Domain based platforms

Innovationplatforms

Citizens

Procurement expertsDomain experts

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Strawman 2: MS driven and managed

Assisting the MC Resources provided by the

national catalogues

Teams of technical experts organised by domains

MANAGEMENT TEAM (MT)

Responsible for the operation of the EU Catalogue and coordination with national catalogues

Comprising a chairman and head from each expert group selected by the MC

Responsible for a Domain Led by a head selected by MC and comprising independent

external experts

Resposible for Domain Led by a head selected by MC and comprising independent

external experts

Responsible for a Domain Led by a head selected by MC and comprising independent

external experts

Led by a head selected by MC and comprising independent

external experts

Restricted MSP

CONNECTGROWTH

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

CONNECT GROWTH DIGITENERGYMOVE

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

NATIONAL CATALOGUES

Coordinating with all the operating catalogues

Domain relevant civil society

organisations

Procurement platforms

Domain based platforms

Innovationplatforms

Citizens

Procurement expertsDomain expertsNational innovation experts

Status & Next steps• Status

• Study kicked off in Feb 2016: Analysis, Establishment, Launch and operation of a European Catalogue or ICT standards for public procurement

• 4 domains: eGovernment, Intelligent Transport Systems, Cloud Computing, and energy appliances

• We invite you to participate to the Online surveyhttps://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EuropeanCatalogueofStandards

• Next steps• Workshops on eGov, ITS, cloud, and energy appliances• Impact assessment study (2017)

Questions?