Boosting the EU Single Market:Towards the Single Digital Gateway 2.0
An event brought to you by the European Commission under the patronage of the 2024 Belgian Council Presidency
19 March 2024
Concert Noble - Brussels, Belgium
How can the Single Digital Gateway help unlock the full potential of the Single Market?
Organised by the European Commission, under the patronage of the 2024 Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, this high-level event on the Single Digital Gateway will look at how digital public services can further improve the functioning of the Single Market. Prominent experts and policy makers will exchange their ideas and insights on the achievements, the opportunities and the future of the Single Digital Gateway, its user-centric portal Your Europe, and the recently-launched Once-Only Technical System.
Listen and interact with inspiring speakers and panellists
This conference will combine high-profile keynote speakers with a set of invited professionals to showcase their experiences and an interactive roundtable session. It will offer concrete examples of how the Single Digital Gateway, Your Europe and Once-Only Technical System initiatives are successfully contributing to creating a Digital Single Market. Productive networking time will complement the agenda.
Explore different initiatives first - hand and speak to our experts
This event will offer an inspiring exhibition area, providing useful information about the priorities of the Belgian EU Presidency, the Single Digital Gateway initiative, Your Europe, the Once-Only Technical System. We have curated the best EU initiatives, which will showcase their technological innovations and show you how they will transform the lives of EU citizens.
Are you interested in joining the event?
This event is by invitation. If you are interested in joining, please send us an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Speakers and panellists
Learn about our esteemed speakers and panellists.
Mr. Thierry Breton
European Commissioner for Internal Market - European Commission
Thierry Breton is the European Commissioner for Internal Market. He has many years of experience as a CEO for multiple companies including France Telecom and Atos. He was the Minister of Finance of France from 2005 to 2007.
Mr. Mathieu Michel
Secretary of State for Digitalization, in charge of Administrative Simplification, Privacy and the Buildings Administration - Belgian Federal Government
Mathieu Michel has had a long career in Belgian politics. Since 2020 he has served as the Secretary of State for Digitalization, in charge of Administrative Simplification, Privacy and the Buildings Administration.
Ms. Kerstin Jorna
Director - General DG GROW - European Commission
Kerstin Jorna is the Director General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. She has worked for the European Union since 1990.
Ms. Veronica Gaffey
Director - General - Digital Services DIGIT
Veronica Gaffey is the Director General for Digital Services. She was also previously the Chair of the independent Regulatory Scrutiny Board.
Mr. Jack Hamande
Director - General Simplification & Digital Transformation - Belgian Federal Public Service Policy and Support (BOSA)
Jack Hamande has much experience in the public and private sectors. He is the Director General of Simplification & Digital Transformation at BOSA since 2021.
Ms. Natalia Aristimuño Perez
Director - Digital Services DIGIT
Natalia Aristimuño Pérez is the Digital Services Director. She joined the European Commission in the year 2000.
Ms. Jennifer Baker
Jenifer Baker is an experienced presenter and reporter with over 20 years experience as a journalist with over 10 years in Brussels reporting on EU breaking news, politics, technology, and legislation.
Practical information
Date
19 March, 2024
Location
Concert Noble, Rue d'Arlon 82, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Target groups
Participation is open to professionals responsible for developing, influencing, and managing implementation of IT projects for public, private, and academic sectors at local, regional, national, and pan-European institutional levels.
Fees
No fees are charged to participate in this event.
Agenda
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Speakers
Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market (FR) Mathieu Michel, State Secretary – BE Presidency (BE)
Transforming the Single Market with the Single Digital Gateway & Once-Only Technical System, key achievements and lessons learned
Interoperability of public services, reduction of administrative burdens, focus on implementation
09:30 - 10:15
The Single Digital Gateway, accessible via the Your Europe portal, was launched in 2020 with the aim to help businesses and citizens navigate the Single Market and reap the opportunities it offers:
- Let’s take stock and see what the Single Digital Gateway brings for users, businesses and citizens, active in the Single Market, what it means for a more effective Single Market, and how we can improve the current pillars of the Single Digital Gateway.
- How the Single Digital Gateway can deliver more in 2024 and make the Once Only principle a reality for users, following the establishment of the Technical System for the automated exchange of evidence in December 2023.
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:30
The Single Digital Gateway- including its public interface Your Europe, and the Once Only Technical System- is a major eGov initiative that contributes to a better functioning of the Single Market. It is no longer possible to manage or benefit from the Single Market without digital tools. As such, the SDG complements and can be complemented by other cross-cutting and sector-specific digital tools dealing with the Single Market, both existing, such as IMI (Internal Market Information tool), the building blocks such as eDelivery, Core Vocs, eID and eSignature, eProcurement tools (eCertis, the European single procurement document (ESPD) and the Public Procurement Data Space, PPDS), and upcoming, such as the EUDI Wallet. Appropriate bridges and synergies or closer relations could improve interoperability between these tools, for a more efficient Single Market.
- Which bridges and synergies could be built with internal market digital tools relevant for the Single Market and which added value these synergies could bring for users and for public administrations?
- What these bridges could look like and what these synergies would require having them implemented?
11:30 - 12:15
The Single Market is the greatest asset of the EU and is expected to deliver more on many challenges, such as resilience of the industry and economy in an increasing unstable international trading environment and the twin transitions. There is also a paradigm shift emerging as businesses and citizens call for a more convenient administrative environment and fewer or simplified reporting obligations. Beyond 2024, the Single Digital Gateway will have a major role to play in making the Single Market even more accessible and competitive, based on the eGov and technological evolutions of the future.
- What could be the future potential of a Single Digital Gateway 2.0 -, its objectives, its use cases, its scope, its impact, in light of the evolutions of digital public services?
- What the features of a Single Digital Gateway 2.0 could be to meet new needs and how it could embrace technological evolutions, such as Artificial intelligence, blockchain…?
12:15 - 12:30
Speakers
Jack Hamande, Secretary General - BOSA (BE) Kerstin Jorna, Director General - DG GROW (DE)
Speakers
Jack Hamande, Secretary General - BOSA (BE) Kerstin Jorna, Director General - DG GROW (DE)
12:30 - 14:00
The Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR)
In 2018, the Single Digital Gateway Regulation set out to make it easier to find the right information online to do business or move, study, work, retire or in another EU country – using the Your Europe portal.
A joint effort from the European Commission and the Member States
The Single Digital Gateway initiative called for EU Member States to ensure that a range of important cross-border administrative procedures are provided fully online. It also called on the Commission and Member States to establish a system allowing for the automated and cross-border exchange of evidence (the documents or data needed for these procedures), known as the Once-Only Technical System.
Complementing the Your Europe portal
Alongside the Your Europe portal, the Once-Only Technical System stands as the newest element within the framework of the Single Digital Gateway, dedicated to more efficient public services and the simplification of administrative procedures.
The Once-Only hub: Boosting the EU Single Market
The Once-Only Technical System lets EU public authorities securely exchange official documents and data at the request of citizens and businesses as part of cross-border administrative procedures, e.g., when registering an address or vehicle when moving abroad. This innovative system eliminates the complicated manual search, mapping, and fetching of data between Member State authorities, improving efficiency, making people's lives easier, and reducing the costs of mobility in the Single Market.
