Recap of eDelivery Interoperability Forum meeting on 18 April
The eDelivery Interoperability Forum gathered AS4 solution providers and people interested in eDelivery specifications on 18 April 2024. We discussed eDelivery updates and initiatives shaping the digital landscape for solution providers.
Maya Madrid, EC policy officer in DG CNECT, began by talking about the upcoming eIDAS regulation, which will change how electronic delivery services, like eDelivery, work in Europe. Also, Member States are gearing up to offer the European Digital Identity Wallet to the citizens, and eIDAS mandates it should happen within two years after adopting the first set of eIDAS implementing acts.
Bogdan Dumitriu, EC policy officer in DIGIT, talked about what is happening in eDelivery. He mentioned upcoming events and asked vendors to stay involved. The officer summarised the plan for the eDelivery profile 2.0 specifications, with their potential adoption slated by the end of 2024. Particularly, he underscored the upcoming Interoperability Event in June, in which along with the solution providers the community will test the latest drafts of the eDelivery profile 2.0 AS4 specifications.
Cosmin Baciu shared insights into the user needs for AS4 software according to the requests received from Access Point users. The presented needs ranged from REST API integration to secure storage solutions. The eDelivery team is publicly sharing these needs here.
Bogdan Dumitriu also talked about revamped presentation of eDelivery AS4 conformant solutions. Stay tuned for the go-live planned for 20 May 2024!
João Rodrigues Frade and Flora Kardos talked about the OOTS, an eDelivery-based digital ecosystem that went live in December 2023. The OOTS will make it easier to share documents between countries, and therefore facilitate the lives and activities of the EU businesses and citizens when dealing with other EU MS institutions and organisations. There is no doubt on OOTS's transformative role in cross-border data exchange, and its role is further foreseen in the Single Digital Gateway expansion in the future. See the presentation slides for resources.
Looking ahead, Bogdan Dumitriu provided insights into the Interoperability Event, stressing the importance of early preparation and active participation. Notably, the event promises live testing aimed at validating the usability of new eDelivery specifications. The officer invited solution providers to get their PoC implementations ready for the testing. Guidance documentation for the event is now available on the event page and early registrations are encouraged. The registration deadline is 30 May 2024.
The eDelivery team would like to make future Interoperability Forum meetings more interactive and useful for everyone. We would like to hear you involved in our discussions and for this to happen, next time we are going to reserve some more time for learning about the members of the Forum, including any questions, issues and/or feedback they may have.
eDelivery Building Block
eDelivery is a Building Block that provides technical specifications and standards, installable software and ancillary services to allow projects to create a network of nodes for secure digital data exchange.
The eDelivery specifications include the eDelivery AS4 profile, an open technical specification ensuring secure, payload-agnostic and reliable data exchange; the eDelivery SMP profile, designed for publishing service metadata within a 4-corner network; the eDelivery BDXL profile, which enables locating Access Points within the network; and the eDelivery ebCore Party ID profile, a technical specification for the recommended notation for party addressing.
Stay tuned for the latest updates on eDelivery services by checking the Building Block's X and web page. For more information, do not hesitate to register for personalised news or contact us via our portal or by email: EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu.