Is it time for a cross-border eDelivery network between citizens and public administrations?
The eDelivery team actively strives to meet stakeholders’ expectations regarding the building block and its implementation. On top of a jam-packed event calendar, the team has been busy responding to outreach requests from the community.
The team was very happy to meet the Lithuanian representative - Ms. Kristina Semene, attaché for Telecommunication and Post from the Lithuanian Permanent Representation to the EU. During the meeting, Ms. Semene presented a secure message exchange success story from Lithuania that connected Lithuanian citizens to the nation's postal network. Given the project's incredible achievement, she pushed for exporting this model on a cross-border scale. Along with Member States with established eDelivery networks, she highlighted that Ukraine could be an ideal partner to be involved in this push toward a pan-European network for sharing data among citizens and administrations.
Meanwhile, an increasing number of implementers are setting up eDelivery networks across the EU, with the latest example coming from Croatia. In December 2022, thanks to a cooperation between Croatian Post, the Ministry of Justice, and the company Sedam IT, Croatia completed an eDelivery network aimed at developing and implementing an electronic document delivery solution for individuals and public administrations. The network created technical and procedural conditions for the digital delivery of registered mail in accordance with the eIDAS Regulation.
Although no information about funding for pilot projects is currently available under the Digital Europe Programme, the team is eager to open the floor to idea exchange to promote the creation of a pan-European eDelivery network for messages exchange. The upcoming Informal Cooperation Network (ICN) for eDelivery, taking place on May 11 in a hybrid format, will be the ideal occasion to have such a discussion. The meeting is a platform for Member States' representatives involved in the setting up of national eDelivery infrastructures to actively contribute to the adoption of eDelivery at national and EU levels. If you’re a Member State representative and you are not included in the forum, you can send a request to join the ICN here.
The eDelivery team looks forward to receiving community members' feedback, suggestions, and success stories. Have a look at our event calendar here to explore all the opportunities to interact with other stakeholders!
If you want to tell us about an eDelivery success story, send us a message at EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu.
The 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.
Domibus is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery AS4 Access Point for the interoperable, secure and reliable data exchange. It is based on the eDelivery AS4 profile, an open technical specification for the secure, web-based, payload-agnostic exchange of data or documents.
DomiSMP is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery Service Metadata Publisher for publishing and retrieving data necessary for an eDelivery party to dynamically configure its system for message exchange with counterparties using eDelivery. It is based on the eDelivery SMP profile, an open technical specification for publishing service metadata within a 4-corner network.
DomiSML is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery Service Metadata Locator for an eDelivery party to discover the URLs of other counterparties using eDelivery Access Points and their corresponding metadata. It is based on the eDelivery BDXL profile, an open technical specification for locating Access Points within a network, and on the PEPPOL SML Specification, a technical specification defining a BDXL administration API.
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