09.00 - 09.30

09.30 - 09.40

Debrief on main takeaways from the Informal Cooperation Network for eDelivery

Ines Costa (CEF Stakeholder Management Office, DIGIT)

• Cf. slides attached.
• The CEF eDelivery team presented the main takeaways from the Informal Cooperation Network for eDelivery.

09.40 - 09.55

CEF eDelivery 2019 grants

Radoslav Jakub (INEA)

• Cf. slides attached.

09.55 - 10.55

Round table: sharing of eDelivery status at national level  

The Workshop participants are invited to present the status on eDelivery implementation at national level.

Participants to the Workshop

• The Member State representatives provided an update on the eDelivery status at national level taking into consideration the following aspects: Governance, Operations, Finance and Architecture.

Lithuania

• Jonas Zalinkevicius (Public Institution eDelivery LT) provided an update on the two eDelivery Access Points being deployed in Lithuania. Both of them have passed the connectivity testing. One of them will be used for the national eInvoicing system using PEPPOL and the other one will be used by the private sector.
• Change towards paperless receipts is currently being implemented as cash registers will be based on electronic processes and AS4 will be used for cross-border exchanges in this context.

Sweden

• Martin Volcker (DIGG - Agency for Digital Government) provided a brief update on the creation of a new authority, DIGG, in operation since September 2018. This authority is responsible for the development and implementation of the digital strategy for Sweden that will be finalised by August 2019.
• Sweden has been active in eInvoicing (via PEPPOL) and OOP. DIGG has been developing a national product for the secure data communication between organisations.

Denmark

• Sven Rasmussen (DIGST - Danish Agency for Digitisation) informed that eInvoicing and eProcurement was transferred from DIGST to the Ministry of Economy. A legal act was issued to implement PEPPOL as national eInvoicing infrastructure as of April 2019, with municipalities and local authorities following the next year.
• eDelivery is implemented in Denmark via EU projects such as BRIS, EESSI and others.
• Denmark has been working on an European Interoperability Platform connected to the ISA² programme.

Norway

• Klaus Vilstrup Pedersen (DIFI - Agency for Public Management and eGovernment) informed that Norway has finalised last year the strategy and reference architecture for eDelivery.
• In Norway, eProcurement is built on eDelivery and, besides this, there are other pilots in different areas connected, for example, to case handling, archiving, traceability and payment audits.
• As regard financing, there is no central model as the investments are distributed among different projects.
• The architecture is business process driven. Namely, rather than developing new governance models, the teams build on top of the PEPPOL governance model when needed.

Germany

• Klaus Luttich (Governikus) informed about the ongoing activities of Governikus, software provider to the federal states in Germany.
• eInvoicing in Germany is based on PEPPOL but not all states have issued eInvoicing law yet.
• There is a messaging service in place using the 4-corner model and eDelivery Access Points to create interoperable post offices for interaction with the government.
• The German national protocol is based on the 4-corner model and new use cases are being developed.
• Governance of eDelivery related activities is under responsibility of the IT Planning Council composed of federal states and federal government.
• Operations and finance are not centralised.

Slovenia

• Alenka Zuzek (Ministry of Public Administration) informed that the Supreme Court of Slovenia has developed a solution based on eDelivery.
• The Ministry of Public Administration is coordinating activities to develop building blocks for all the trust services, incl. registered delivery services.
• There is currently an open call to update the eProcurement system and implement AS4 in this domain. The architecture will remain the same and the system will act as a central platform available to service providers.

Luxembourg

• Gerard Soisson (State IT Center) informed that eDelivery is implemented in Luxembourg in eInvoicing and other EU projects such as eJustice, BRIS and other sectorial domains.
• The Luxembourg Parliament has passed the eInvoicing law the previous week. Luxembourg will be using PEPPOL for eInvoicing.

Belgium

• Arnaud Reper (BOSA) informed about the current status on institutions onboarded for eInvoicing, i.e. 5 to 6 thousand institutions.
  
• BOSA is the national authority for SMP.
• The eBox platform enables citizens to receive official documents from social security administrations. eBox is also open for companies to exchange documents. eBox is mapped to EIRA and it is migrating to support AS4 via a private service provider.
• The financing of activities is done via federal budget.

The Netherlands

• RINIS operates a national eDelivery gateway open to public entities already for the past two years.
• There is budget to promote eDelivery at national level in the Netherlands.
• There is a SMP gateway in development planned to be operational by Q3 2019.

Italy

• Stefano Cascone (INPS) informed that eDelivery is in place for eInvoicing and eProcurement in Italy.
• INPS received funding from INEA to develop a national eDelivery gateway to allow exchange of data between Italian national social security system with the EU infrastructure.
  
• INPS is leading on a proposal to use Blockchain technology with the EU Social Security identifier to allow the creation of circle of trust.

10.55 - 11.10

11.10 - 12.10

Updates on CEF eDelivery:

• Directory services for eDelivery
• Roadmap for CEF eDelivery
• eDelivery 1.15 profile
• Update on eDelivery guidance on message signals and evidences

Ines Costa, Maarten Daniels, Pim van der Eijk, Adrien Ferial (CEF eDelivery team)

• Cf. slides attached.
• The CEF eDelivery team presented the main updates on the developments under CEF eDelivery.

Directory services for eDelivery:

• Martin (Sweden) stressed that DIGG is currently working on a similar development for search and addressing.
• Dietmar (CNECT) informed the meeting that the initiative to create a directory services could be taken in the future OOP (Once Only Principle) project.
• Some participants stressed that it could be interesting to create use cases around the specific requirement from the business process side.
• Martin (Sweden) stressed that the discussion is around the creation of different trust models and that a dynamic SML could solve problems connected to different domains. The legal agreements aspect is very important to ensure interoperability.
• Sven (Denmark) pointed out that the creation of trust is challenging. PEPPOL's PKI is efficient but it is a first generation architecture. Cross domain is as important as cross border communication. Denmark is looking into other developments to allow cross domain exchanges in its national implementation of eDelivery.
• Maarten (CEF eDelivery team) stressed that there are already projects trying to solve the trust challenges. There is a DG TAXUD project using the eIDAS list of trusted lists and working on the integration of DSS in an Access Point so that any certificate issued by someone in the list of trusted lists can be accepted.

Support for large files:

• Martin (Sweden) questioned whether vendors could implement this new feature. Maarten (CEF eDelivery team) informed that it will be included as an optional feature in the CEF eDelivery conformance testing. Pim (CEF eDelivery team) further mentioned that the information about whether an Access Points supports this new feature could be included in SMP.
• Arnaud (Belgium) stressed that the load testing will be a challenge with a combination of small and large files. He further stressed that the service providers will not be able to support this feature.
• Participants noted that it would be beneficial to receive more practice information about this new development to ensure that any potential synergies can be identified and established in a timely manner.

12.10 - 13.10

13.10 - 13.40

X-Road as an Interoperability Component in European eDelivery

Ville Sirviö, CEO, NIIS (Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions)

Petteri Kivimäki, CTO, NIIS

• Cf. slides attached.
• NIIS informed that there is currently a PoC to understand how to integrate eDelivery with X-Road.
• It is possible to implement a component to translate between eDelivery and X-Road messages (and vice-versa) but there are legal challenges to solve related to the signature of the message and end-to-end non-repudiation.
• Martin (Sweden) stressed that the information systems connected via X-Road could implement an eDelivery Access Point. Petteri (NIIS) informed that they want to avoid complexity to their users.
• As regard the use of SML, Petteri (NIIS) informed that in the PoC they only used static Pmode files and that X-Road has its own way to identify organisations.
• Arnaud (Belgium) questioned whether X-Road would integrate with PEPPOL and Petteri (NIIS) informed that it is currently under PoC level but it is the objective in the future.
• Following concerns raised by some of the participants, NIIS reassured that there is no risk of vendor lock-in as X-Road is 100% open source (released under the MIT license), and consultation and development services are provided by multiple commercial service providers.

• Adrien (CEF eDelivery team) stressed that X-Road could, instead of consider to implement AS4 as part of the Security Server, try to implement a Domibus plugin that would solve the non-repudiation issue.

13.40 - 14.10

Update of the Danish eDelivery POC in Healthcare

Ole Vilstrup Møller (MedCom)

• Cf. slides attached.
• Ole (MedCom) presented how MedCom is supporting the modernisation of the Danish healthcare system.

14.10 - 14.40

eDelivery Next Generation

RINIS Foundation (NL)

• Cf. slides attached.
• RINIS presented their API eDelivery strategy and other ongoing initiatives.

15.10 - 16.10

Open discussion: Future directions to eDelivery

Participants to the Workshop

• The group engaged in a discussion about the future directions to eDelivery and the creation of a working group to discuss future developments (e.g. use of APIs, European governance, cross domain exchanges, integration of national projects).
• Joao (CEF eDelivery team) suggested that the group could as well focus on trying to understand how can Blockchain interact with eDelivery to solve specific challenges such as the creation of circles of trust, self-sovereign identity, specific agreements, among others. The findings of this working group could then feed into the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure. There were mixed opinions in the room about the development of the use cases for the use of blockchain for eDelivery.  

16.10 - 16.30

Wrap-up & closing

Joao Rodrigues Frade (Head of CEF building blocks sector, DIGIT)

• Dietmar (CNECT) asked the participants to provide any feedback on the workshop and their priorities to be addressed in the future within the network.