eDelivery – a success story of European reuse

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According to available monitoring data, by the end of Q1 2021 eDelivery was being used by 39 multi-country projects, with another 25 being in the process of implementing it. These projects led to the implementation of hundreds of Access Points and to exchange of millions of messages everyday thanks to eDelivery technology. Furthermore, an expansion of the use of the building block across several eGovernment sectors was observed. Many believe that eDelivery was one of the most successful reuse initiatives to have ever been carried out in European public administration, and the monitoring of the adoption of the building block confirms this assumption.

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In the area of company law, the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS) and the Beneficial Ownership Registers Interconnection System (BORIS) connect the EU Member States’ national registers to each other and with the European Commission Central Platform using eDelivery Access Points.

In the area of eProcurement, OpenPeppol relies on eDelivery to enable European businesses to easily deal electronically with any European public sector buyers in their procurement processes, thereby increasing opportunities for greater competition for government contracts and providing better value for taxpayers’ money.

In the justice domain, a number of projects rely on e-CODEX – a European digital infrastructure for secure cross-border communication in the field of justice, which uses eDelivery for secure information exchange. For example, eEvidence Digital Exchange System (eEDES) relies on e-CODEX for the standardised encoding, transmission and follow-up of the European Investigation Order forms. e-CODEX and eDelivery are also at the core of implementing the Commission’s policy of “Digitalisation of cross-border judicial cooperation”. eDelivery is mentioned as a key component in the cross-border electronic exchange of data in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters in the recent Regulation (EU) 2022/850.

eDelivery plays a key role in the eGovernance of the Inland Waterways Transport (IWT) sector, contributing to the implementation of a Single Digital Gateway and Once-Only Principle in everything that regards data on IWT crew (the European Crew Database Project). In the project on the European Maritime Single Window environment (EMSWe), the European Commission selected eDelivery (and Domibus) as one of the protocols to be used by the harmonised reporting interface module (RIM), which means all maritime Member States will support eDelivery once they start operating the RIM.

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