Public consultation on EU funds in the area of strategic infrastructure

Have your say: EU funding

In 2018, the Commission will make comprehensive proposals for the next generation of financial programmes for the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework, which is the EU's long–term budget.  The Commission's proposals will be designed to make it possible for the EU to deliver on the things that matter most, in areas where it can achieve more than Member States acting alone. This requires a careful assessment both of what has worked well in the past and what could be improved in the future. This consultation is an integral part of the process and its objective is to collect the views of all interested parties on how to make the most of every euro of the EU budget.

Consultations have taken place in the context of evaluations of existing EU financial programmes covering several policy areas, including on current performance and future challenges. The views expressed by stakeholders in these consultations will be taken into account as part of the current process for the future Multiannual Financial Framework.

The Commission is launching in parallel to this consultation, a series of public consultations covering the entire spectrum of EU future funding in the following areas: Cohesion; Investment, Research & Innovation, SMEs and Single Market; Migration; Security; Strategic Infrastructure; Values and Mobility.

All citizens, organisations and stakeholders with an interest and/or involvement in issues related strategic infrastructure are welcome to respond to this consultation, including those who have received, or are interested in, grant funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).

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Webinar: The CEF Building Blocks: Building a Digital Single Market for SMEs, 2 March 2018

European Commission, 2018

This webinar will look at the benefits of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Building Blocks for SMEs and the private sector.

Specifically, the webinar will look at how common standards and technical specifications, as well as supporting services, can benefit SMEs. It will explore how a structured Service Offering Canvas allows an organisation considering reuse of one or more CEF Building Blocks to map their needs to the services available. Finally, participants will get a snapshot of reuse of the Building Blocks in Europe to date.

Details: 2 March 2018, 10.00 - 11.00 CET

Don't miss: The 2018-1 CEF Telecom calls virtual Info Day will take place on Thursday 8 March 2018 and will cover three priorities of the 2018 CEF Telecom Calls which will open on 22 February 2018.

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The CEF Building Blocks

The internet and digital technologies are transforming our world. At the same time the digital landscape is becoming more diverse, putting challenges on cross-border interoperability and intercommunication. As a result, Europeans still face barriers when using (cross-border) online tools and services. This means that citizens miss out on goods and services and businesses miss out on market potential, while also governments cannot fully benefit from digital technologies. The EU’s Digital Single Market aims to overcome these challenges by creating the right environment for digital networks and services to flourish. This is not only achieved by setting the right regulatory conditions, but also by providing cross-border digital infrastructures and services.

To support the Digital Single Market in succeeding, the CEF programme is funding a set of generic and reusable Digital Service Infrastructures (DSI), also known as Building Blocks.

The CEF Building Blocks (CEF eID, eDelivery, eInvoicing, eSignature & eTranslation) enable secure cross-border digital interactions between citizens, businesses and public administrations. In practical terms they are common solutions to common problems built on common standards and specifications, agreed upon by the EU Member States.

In 2018, the European Commission will also begin activities around newly-identified Building Blocks consisting of eArchiving, Context Broker and Big Data.

The Enterprise Europe Network

The Enterprise Europe Network helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions. The Network is active in more than 60 countries worldwide. It brings together 3,000 experts from more than 600 member organisations – all renowned for their excellence in business support. It is co-financed by the European Commission Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) under the EU programme for Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME).

Grant Funding

To support the Digital Single Market, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme is funding a set of generic and reusable Digital Service Infrastructures (DSI), the CEF Building Blocks.

The CEF funding covers two elements:

• A Core Service Platform, provided and maintained by the European Commission. Depending on the building block, the Core Service Platform may include technical specifications, sample software and supporting services (funding for the European Commission)
• Generic services in the form of Grants, supporting the implementation of projects that reuse the CEF building blocks (funding for the Member States)

CEF grant funding supports the uptake of the CEF Building Blocks in both the public and private sectors. The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) will launch calls for proposals for grant funding. The 2018 CEF Telecommunications Work Programme provides an overview of the indicative grant funding foreseen for the CEF Building Blocks and projects reusing them.

Indicative funding amounts in 2018:

CEF Digital 2018 is the online platform that is home to the CEF Building Blocks, their supporting standards, services and specifications, as well as interactive user communities. CEF Digital 2018 also provides valuable information on receiving grant funding, such as webinar recordings with testimonies from grant recipients and presentations by experts from INEA. 

Presentations

Grant Funding for CEF eSignature Available Now

European Commission, 2018

Don't miss the 2018-1 CEF Telecom call Virtual Info Day on Thursday, 8 March 2018 - 10:00

Supported by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the call for proposals (CEF-TC-2018-1) provides grant funding of up to € 0.5 million to support the adoption of CEF eSignature in Europe. CEF funding is provided to help you adopt CEF eSignature covering up to 75%* of the costs of implementation. The deadline for applications is 15 May 2018.

The actions funded under this call for proposals should result in an increased uptake of electronic signatures (in particular, qualified electronic signatures).

The CEF eSignature Building Block Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) helps public administrations and businesses to accelerate the creation and verification of electronic signatures. The deployment of solutions based on this building block in a Member State facilitates the mutual recognition and cross-border interoperability of e-signatures. This means that public administrations and businesses can trust and use e-signatures that are valid and structured in EU-interoperable formats.

The CEF eSignature building block consists of several services managed by the European Commission. These include:

• The Digital Signature Services (DSS) open-source library for the creation and validation of electronic signatures.
• The Trusted List Manager, which helps the Member States' Trusted List Scheme Operators (TLSOs) create and edit a Trusted List in a standard, machine-readable format.
• Technical specifications and associated standards (maintained by ETSI), which outline the requirements laid out by the eIDAS Regulation in regard to electronic signatures and e-seals.
• DSS Conformance Testing (maintained by ETSI), to help service providers and public administrations test interoperability and conformity of their eSignature solution.

Below you will find the key information needed to submit a grant proposal. However, you will need to read the Call Text, which outlines the objectives of the grant funding and how to apply, before submission. The Innovation & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) provides the call text and supporting information grants. INEA is responsible for organising CEF calls for proposals.

Who can apply?

In accordance with the 2018 Work Programme and pursuant to Article 9 of the CEF Regulation, only those proposals submitted by one of the following types of applicants are eligible:

• One or more Member States;
• With the agreement of the Member State(s) or EEA countr(y)ies concerned, international organisations, Joint Undertakings,11 or public or private undertakings or bodies established in Member States.

For more detailed information (i.e. if you are from a candidate or third country etc.), be sure you read the call text thoroughly!

What is the funding for?

The goal of this funding is to create an ecosystem across the European Union based on the eIDAS Regulation capable of enhancing the services provided to the citizen.

This call makes € 0.5 million available to support the uptake and reuse of eSignature, specifically for: developing systems for Member States and the private sector for the use of electronic signatures and electronic seals in line with the eIDAS Regulation.

For proposals addressing this objective, the developed systems should be able to demonstrate their use of the eSignature DSI Building Block's DSS open-source library either by incorporating the library's code, or as a reference implementation, to create and/or validate electronic signatures and electronic seals compliant with the eIDAS Regulation and related standards.

What is the timetable?

Still have questions?

• Visit the call page on INEA
• Register for the  2018-1 CEF Telecom call Virtual Info Day
• Send an email to INEA-CEF-TELECOMCALLS@ec.europa.eu;
• Browse INEA's Frequently Asked Questions;
• Or follow INEA on Twitter @inea_eu or LinkedIn or visit the Build a Consortium LinkedIn group

Grant Funding for CEF eID Available: Last call prior to eIDAS deadline

European Commission, 2018

Don't miss the  2018-1 CEF Telecom call Virtual Info Day on Thursday, 8. March 2018 - 10:00 CET

Supported by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the call for proposals (CEF-TC-2018-1) provides grant funding of up to € 7.5 million to support the adoption of CEF eID in Europe. CEF funding is provided to help you adopt CEF eID in your organisation, covering up to 75%* of the costs of implementation. The deadline for applications is 15 May 2018.

This call for proposals is the last chance for applicants to request grant funding supporting eID ahead of the legal deadline established by Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market (known as the eIDAS Regulation). The actions funded under this call for proposals should result in an increased uptake of eIDAS eID (including related information on attributes, mandates and authorities).

According to the eIDAS regulation, the Member States are required to set-up an interoperability infrastructure (an eIDAS node) allowing for the mutual recognition of national eID schemes. For the benefit of citizens, businesses and public administrations, the Member States are also encouraged to connect as many e-services to this ecosystem as possible. They must therefore recognise the notified eIDs of other Member States by 29 September 2018.

The CEF eID Building Block Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) is a set of services (including software, documentation, training and support) provided by the European Commission and endorsed by the Member States, which helps public administrations and private Service Providers to extend the use of their online services to citizens from other European countries.

Below you will find the key information needed to submit a grant proposal. However, you will need to read the Call Text, which outlines the objectives of the grant funding and how to apply, before submission. The Innovation & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) provides the call text and supporting information grants. INEA is responsible for organising CEF calls for proposals.

Who is eligible?

In accordance with the 2018 Work Programme and pursuant to Article 9 of the CEF Regulation, only those proposals submitted by one of the following types of applicants are eligible:

• One or more Member States;
• With the agreement of the Member State(s) or EEA countr(y)ies concerned, international organisations, Joint Undertakings,11 or public or private undertakings or bodies established in Member States.

For more detailed information (i.e. if you are from a candidate or third country etc.), be sure you read the call text thoroughly!

What is the funding for?

1. eID DSI integration: Integrating the eID DSI (Digital Service Infrastructures) in existing e-services/systems/online platforms in various public or private sectors;
2. Attributes enablement: Enabling attributes, mandates and authorities to be associated with electronic identities for cross-border use through the eIDAS node;
3. Student mobility: Supporting student mobility by enabling students to identify themselves in a trusted manner across borders and thus benefit from the 'Once Only Principle' in higher education institutions.

What is the timetable?

Still have questions?

• Visit the call page on INEA

• Register for the  2018-1 CEF Telecom call Virtual Info Day

• Send an email to INEA-CEF-TELECOMCALLS@ec.europa.eu;
• Browse INEA's Frequently Asked Questions;
• Follow INEA on Twitter @inea_eu or LinkedIn or visit the Build a Consortium LinkedIn group

eIDAS: Facilitate seamless digital transactions among individuals and businesses across the EU

European Commission 2018

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Society (ENISA) has published a report on the implementation and uptake of Trust Services in Europe.

The study concluded that while Regulation (EU) N°910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market (the eIDAS Regulation) has been seen by stakeholders as a key enabler towards digital transformation, organisations across the board can be greatly facilitated and encouraged to deliver their strategies with confidence should they chose to follow the eIDAS framework.

The eIDAS Regulation, adopted by the co-legislators on 23 July 2014, is a milestone to provide a predictable regulatory environment to enable secure and seamless electronic interactions between businesses, citizens and public authorities.

The eIDAS Regulation underpins three of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Building Blocks: eID, eSignature and eDelivery. The CEF Building Blocks offer basic capabilities that can be reused in any European project to facilitate the delivery of digital public services across borders and sectors.

• The CEF eID Building Block is a set of services (including software, documentation, training and support) provided by the European Commission and endorsed by the Member States, which helps public administrations and private Service Providers to extend the use of their online services to citizens from other European countries, by allowing them to identify and authenticate with their national eID. The mutual recognition of eID schemes across Europe is mandated by the eIDAS Regulation.
• The CEF eSignature Building Block helps public administrations and businesses to accelerate the creation and verification of electronic signatures. The deployment of solutions based on this building block in a Member State facilitates the mutual recognition and cross-border interoperability of e-signatures. The eIDAS legal framework ensures legal certainty for cross-border use of e-signatures, e-seals, time-stamps, eDelivery service and website authentication certificates.
• CEF eDelivery is a network of nodes for digital communications. It is based on a distributed model where every participant becomes a node using standard transport protocols and security policies. It helps public administrations to exchange electronic data and documents with other public administrations, businesses and citizens, in an interoperable, secure, reliable and trusted way. eIDAS establishes the principle that an electronic document should not be denied legal effect on the grounds that it is in an electronic form. Having this objective in mind, it introduces Electronic Registered Delivery Service (ERDS) as a new trust service. CEF eDelivery is fully compliant with the ERDS defined in eIDAS.

ENISA conducted the study to present an overview of the implementation and uptake of Trust Services defined in the eIDAS Regulation one year after adoption to the new regime, and analyse the new opportunities and incentives introduced in the European Trust Services market.

The survey recently carried out by ENISA marks the positive tendency of Trust services to break through the barriers of large-scale business transformation processes in such applications as finance, healthcare and beyond.

Download the Study

Trans-European Digital Services: Connecting Europe

Highlights from the conference 'Connecting Europe with Building Blocks'

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) provides funding for trans-European transport, energy and telecommunications infrastructures It has an allocated budget of €30.4 billion (of which €1.04 billion for telecommunications) for the period 2014-2020.

CEF Telecom funds set of generic and reusable Digital Service Infrastructures (DSI), also known as building blocks. The CEF building blocks offer basic capabilities that can be reused in any European project to facilitate the delivery of digital public services across borders and sectors. Currently, there are five building blocks: eDelivery, eInvoicing, eID, eSignature and eTranslation.

Cross-border and trans-European services help improve the daily lives of Europeans through enhanced digital inclusion and connectivity and are a key tenet of the Digital Single Market.

According to the CEF mid-term evaluation, the Building Blocks are being extensively reused also beyond the remit of CEF, in areas such as agriculture, environment and education.

The Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), for example, is an online platform that allows EU consumers and traders to solve disputes for online purchases in a simple and affordable way, keeping the dispute from having to be settled in court. To assure successful functionality of the service three of the CEF Building Blocks are reused: eID to verify the identity of consumers, eTranslation to translate legal documents and eDelivery to securely send documents sent by consumers, traders and relevant bodies. The number of success stories - such as ODR - demonstrate how the CEF Building Blocks help save both time and money in building cross-border digital services.

Grant funding also supports the CEF Building Blocks. Calls for proposals for grant funding are organised by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) on behalf of the Commission.

Furthermore, the CEF Building Blocks are built in compliance with the eIDAS regulation, which establishes a regulatory framework to enable secure and seamless electronic interactions regarding online services in the EU.  For example, the eIDAS 2018 Municipalities enables citizens of EU Member States and EEA countries to electronically prove their identity with their nationally issued eID when seeking access to around 300 services in 81 municipalities across the Netherlands.

On 7 December 2017 at the 'Connecting Europe with Building Blocks: Making the Digital Single Market a Reality' event Commissioner Mariya Gabriel highlighted in her speech that "just as the Acquis Communitaire provides common rules for the Single Market, the Building Blocks are – as standards and technical specifications – in effect common rules supporting the creation of the Digital Single Market."

In order to receive regular updates about everything happening around the Connecting Europe Facility Programme subscribe to the Building Bocks Bulletin.

CEF Digital 2018: Grant funding awarded to promote trans-European digital services

European Commission 2018

The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) has published the results of the second 2017 Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom call for proposals (CEF-TC-2017-2), including CEF eDelivery.

The three selected CEF eDelivery proposals shall receive over € 630,000 in funding and include applicants from seven EU Member States. These proposals will promote the uptake of the eDelivery technical specifications amongst both public and private entities, allowing for secured, traceable, cross-border transmission of electronic documents.

CEF eDelivery is a network of nodes for digital communications. It is based on a distributed model where every participant becomes a node using standard transport protocols and security policies. It helps public administrations to exchange electronic data and documents with other public administrations, businesses and citizens, in an interoperable, secure, reliable and trusted way.

In total, the second round of calls for 2017 provided over € 20 million EU investment to boost European digital networks. Visit the INEA website for more information.

CEF will provide € 0.5 million in grant funding for the reuse of CEF eDelivery in 2018. Prior to the official publication of the call for proposals, the CEF telecommunications work programme 2018 provides an overview of foreseen funding and an indicative timetable.

View Work Programme

CEF eTranslation: ELRC Workshop in Madrid, Spain

Participants discuss automated translation can play to support multilingualism

On 23 January 2018, staff from the European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) network in collaboration with the Spanish Secretary of State for Information Society and Digital Agenda organised a workshop on Madrid, Spain.

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eTranslation Building Block helps European and national public administrations exchange information across language barriers in the EU, by providing machine translation capabilities that will enable trans-European digital infrastructures  to be multilingual.

CEF eTranslation builds on the existing machine translation service of the European Commission. The ELRC network manages, maintains and coordinates the relevant language resources in all official languages of the EU and CEF associated countries. These activities help to improve the quality, coverage and performance of automated translation solutions in the context of current and future CEF-financed digital services.

The objective of the workshop was to raise awareness among Spanish stakeholders about the role that automated translation can play to support multilingual administration services, to highlight the importance of sharing data, and to facilitate access to data. Experts from Spanish industry and academia addressed the various aspects of Language Technologies – with a strong focus on automated translation – and Language Resources, with a highlighted coverage of the critical legal aspects attached to sharing and using of data.

• Interested in contributing to the European Language Resource Coordination? Dates and locations of future webinars are available here.
• Interested in learning how CEF eTranslation can help you harness the benefits of multilingualism in digital services? Discover more about the Building Block, including grant funding, here.

Highlights from Workshop Attendees

Pablo de Amil, Jefe de Área de Planificación y Explotación Ministerio de Hacienda y Administraciones Públicas:

PLATA, the Spanish Government MT hub that initially covered Spanish co-official languages (i.e. Catalan, Basque and Galician), is connected since 2017 to MT@EC to give access to more than 600 language combinations.

Iñaki Vicuña, Director del Centro de Documentación Judicial (CENDOJ) Consejo General del Poder Judicial, (eJustice):

The CENDOJ, Spanish Center for Juridical Documentation, is the largest repository of juridical texts in Spanish, and this enormous corpus has been anonymized and enriched with metadata to make it the source of data for providing services, primarily to judges and law professionals, but also to citizens.

Salvador Soriano, Subdirector General de Coordinación, Calidad y Cooperación en Consumo. AECOSAN, (datos.gov.es):

The Single Digital Market is a challenge because of different interoperability issues that its creation is raising, among them translating between different languages, however solving the problems is for the benefit of all of us as Europeans

Nelson Castro, Subdirector General de Coordinación, Calidad y Cooperación en Consumo. AECOSAN, (ODR):

Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) is a newborn service and is still unknown for most of the Spanish citizens; moreover the quality of automated translation needs to be of high quality to convince them to use it.

Enrique Maside Business Register Interconnection System (BRIS):

Interoperability problems are making [the] Business Register Interconnection System (BRIS) a challenge, but they are not the only ones for the full deployment of services disseminating register's data at European level. There are also legal problems because each country defines what is sharable information differently. Furthermore, a legal assessment about the liability in case of a wrong translation provided by automated translation service is required before widely using it in official register's services.

CEF eInvoicing Video and Infographic: Available Now

The European Commission is happy to announce the publication of an infographic and video exploring the European standard on eInvoicing and the services offered by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Building Block.

18 April 2019 is the major legal deadline in the transposition of Directive 2014/55/EU on eInvoicing in public procurement. The Directive aims to prevent the continued proliferation of non-interoperable standards and syntaxes in the Member States through a European standard on eInvoicing.

The CEF eInvoicing building block aims to promote the uptake and accelerating the use of eInvoicing in respect of the European standard, amongst both public and private entities established in the EU, as well as in participating EEA countries.

To help solution & service providers, public entities, policy makers and suppliers understand key aspects of the European standard, and support available to support eInvoicing respecting this standard, the European Commission has published an infographic and video.

You can download both the infographic and video, as well as a wealth of other materials on CEF eInvoicing and the other Building Blocks (eDelivery, eID, eSignature and eTranslation) from the CEF Digital 2018 Media Library.

Visit Media Library

CEF Telecom Work Programme 2018: New Building Blocks and Grant Funding

European Commission, 2018

On 7 February 2018, the Commission published the 2018 work programme for CEF Telecommunications (CEF Telecom) Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs) and wireless internet connectivity in local communities.

CEF Telecom supports the creation of trans-European networks in the area of broadband and DSIs, including the CEF Building Blocks.

The work programme outlines the general objectives and priorities for actions to be launched in 2018.

Composition of the Connecting Europe Facility 

The 2018 work programme supports the CEF Building Blocks (eDelivery, eID, eInvoicing, eSignature and eTranslation) through both procurement (the provision of a Core Service Platform) and grants. It also supports activities for those projects reusing the Building Blocks: Open Data Portal, Cybersecurity eProcurement, the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS), eHealth, the Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI), the Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), the European eJustice Portal, Europeana and Safer Internet.

In this context, the  Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) will launch calls  for proposals for grant funding. The work programme provides an overview of the indicative grant funding foreseen for the CEF Building Blocks and projects reusing them.

As outlined in the work programme, the Commission will begin activities around newly-identified Building Blocks consisting of eArchiving, Context Broker and Big Data. Further information will be published in the near future on CEF Digital 2018.

Download the WP 2018

CEF eDelivery: Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) 4.0 RC 1 Out Now

On 31 January 2018, the European Commission released the sample implementation of the Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) 4.0 Release Candidate 1 of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eDelivery building block.

CEF eDelivery helps users to exchange electronic data and documents with one another in a reliable and trusted way.

CEF eDelivery works as a collection of distributed nodes that are conformant to the same technical rules, and therefore capable of interacting with each other. The CEF eDelivery network is based on a distributed model where every participant becomes a node using standard transport protocols and security policies.

This release is conformant with the e-SENS SMP profile based on the OASIS Service Metadata Publishing (BDX SMP) specifications. It is a candidate version that is potentially ready to be released unless significant bugs emerge as a result of tests carried out by the future service clients prior to the release of the final version.

The CEF eDelivery Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) enables the participants of an eDelivery Messaging Infrastructure to dynamically discover each other's capabilities (Legal, Organisational, and Technical). For this to happen, each participant must publish its capabilities and settings in a SMP.

All the necessary functionality is available to make the SMP operational; such as all necessary operations to manage Service Groups (structures that represent a set of services associated with a specific Participant identifier) and their Service Metadata (structures that represent Metadata about a specific electronic service).

 Download SMP v4.0 RC1

Second Call: European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Electronic Invoicing's new mandate – Apply now!

European Commission 2018

The European Commission is happy to announce a second round of applications to join the latest mandate of the European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Electronic Invoicing (EMSFEI). The latest mandate was established by a Decision of European Commission of 14 August 2017.

The participation and contribution of stakeholders and experts in advising policy decisions at European level is vital to achieving the best possible results for European citizens, businesses and Member State administrations. Ensuring the broadest possible constitution of the EMSFEI is a priority for the Commission.

This call therefore aims to select one organisation representing a common interest related to eInvoicing at national level from each of the respective countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, as well as organisations at EU level representing different categories of stakeholders.

The main objective of the EMSFEI is to pave the way for a broad-scale adoption of eInvoicing at national and EU-level according to the Directive 2014/55/EU and the European standard on eInvoicing developed by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN). The EMSFEI creates an unique opportunity to exchange experiences and best practices across borders. It also discusses issues of common interest and may issue recommendations to the European Commission. The EMSFEI operates under the auspices of the Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW).

To help solution & service providers, public entities, policy makers and suppliers understand key aspects of the European standard, and support available to support eInvoicing respecting this standard, the European Commission has also published an infographic and video. Download them here.

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CEF eDelivery: Delay in Domibus 4.0 Release

European Commission 2017

The European Commission duly informs users that the release of Domibus 4.0 has been delayed.

The release candidate is currently planned for 15th June 2018 and the final release is planned for 21st September 2018. The main feature of Domibus 4.0 is the multi-tenancy capacity that will allow the use of the same Access Point for different domains.

The CEF eDelivery Building Block helps users to exchange electronic data and documents with one another in a reliable and trusted way.

CEF eDelivery is based on a distributed model called the “4-corner model”. In this model, the back-end systems of the users don’t exchange data directly with each other but do this through Access Points. These Access Points are conformant to the same technical specifications and therefore capable of communicating with each other. As a result of this, users adopting CEF eDelivery can easily and safely exchange data even if their IT systems were developed independently from each other.

The Domibus 4.0 release will be with a close collaboration between different EU policy projects' IT delivery teams and CEF eDelivery.

Highlights of the Domibus 4.0 release include:

• • Java 8 supported (no longer compatible with JAVA 7)

  • Advanced features for the Admin console:

    • New feature to ping remote access points

    • Keep this history off all the PMode changes

    • Management of certificates through the administration

    • New feature to download the messages

    • Configurable alerts and notifications

    • New feature to export metadata as CSV files

  • Support multiple domains (multi-tenancy)

  • Support for wildfly 10

  • Maintenance of Domibus 3.2

  • Maintenance of Domibus 3.3

  • Audit trail

  • Security certificates validity expiration warnings included in the logs

  • Update of the old webservices plugin Unique particle attribution principle

  • Improve the decoupling of the Domibus core from the plugin implementations

  • Possibility for the plugins to retrieve the User Message using Java and REST API via the Dombius ext-api

  • LDAP support for CRL 

  • Move title of angular index.html page into configuration properties

  • Distribute an example of metadata.xml in the FS plugin configuration

Consult CEF Digital 2018 to keep informed about the latest news on Dombius and CEF eDelivery.

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