PDT:EU2020

 

DIGITAL AGENDA

#	Action	What is the problem?	What can EGI do?1	Level2	Relevance3	Area4	Deadline	Status5
12	Review the EU data protection rules	This lack of clarity in online privacy rules triggers a lack of trust among consumers, which slows down the growth of Europe's online economy. The Commission consulted the public and stakeholders and adopt a Commission Communication on renewing the EU data protection rules	The key EU actions and any national laws which may follow will have an impact on EGI’s sites and services. EGI.eu needs to ensure that any new EGI policy is consistent with the current EU security and trust policies. ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM	EC	Low Relevance	Security	31/12/2010	Delayed
21	Propose legislation on ICT interoperability	Better Europe-wide standards would enhance interoperability and ensure that digital applications and devices work across borders. These problems will be addressed in the reform of the EU standardization framework. Finally, it will identify and execute appropriate actions in the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation enabling easy access for research projects to standardization activities.	There is an obvious necessity to follow and be up to date with the last developments in the EU interoperability and standardisation field. EGI.eu should strongly communicate to the European Commission that it needs its support in order to expedite interoperability and standardisation efforts for Distributed Computing Infrastructures. It is important to highlight not only the participation but leadership roles that EGEE and EGI and other high-level people have played in various standards groups (especially OGF) and that EGI and EGI.eu will continue to push technical efforts in order to reach these goals. ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM. ACTION: COMMUNICATE OUR CONTRIBUTION TO ENHANCE INTEROPERABILITY AND STANDARDISATION EFFORTS ON EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL LEVEL TO EC.	EC	Relevant	Interoperability and Standards	31/12/2010	Delayed
22	Promote rules via guidelines for ex-ante disclosure	The new technical standards are adopted without the consideration of the relative costs of the different technical alternatives. The implementation costs of technologies proposed as standards are frequently ignored. When adopting standards, different standardisation bodies currently adopt different approaches to the licensing. The Commission will work towards harmonising these divergent practices and will formulate minimum rules to be followed for a standard to be recognised across the EU.	Action is completed by defining the appropriate rules for essential Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and licensing conditions in standard-setting through the adoption of the Horizontal guidelines.The Standardisation chapter of the revised Horizontal guidelines gives guidance on how to ensure that the process for selecting industry standards is competitive, open and transparent. Once a standard is adopted, access will be given on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" (FRAND) terms to interested businesses and individuals. The purpose of the chapter is to promote an open and transparent standard-setting system in order to increase the transparency of licensing costs for IPRs. ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM.	EC	Low Relevance	Interoperability and Standards	31/12/2011	Completed
23	Guidance on link between ICT standardisation and public procurement	Public authorities should make the best use of available standards when commissioning hardware, software and IT services from external suppliers. In some cases, public authorities find themselves unintentionally locked into particular IT solutions for decades, simply because they failed to draft sufficiently flexible tender specifications allowing for open choices in technological evolution.The Commission will draw up detailed guidelines on how to make best use of ICT standards in tender specifications.	Commission will prepare a Commission Communication to demonstrate the link between ICT standardisation and successful public procurement. ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM.	EC	Low Relevance	Interoperability and Standards	31/12/2011	Risk of Delay
24	Adopt a European Interoperability Strategy and European Interoperability Framework	Europe does not yet reap the maximum benefits from interoperability. Weaknesses in standard-setting, public procurement and coordination between European public authorities prevent digital services and devices working across borders as well as they should. EC adopted European Interoperability Strategy and the European Interoperability Framework.	The EIF takes a pragmatic approach toward openness and it is primarily focused on improving interoperability between the European public administrations, hence, national public services are called upon to “prefer open specifications, taking due account of the coverage of functional needs, maturity and market support” when establishing public services. In addition, EIF introduces the concept of “open specifications” instead of “open standards”. According to the EIF, open specifications need to meet the following criteria: All stakeholders have the same possibility of contributing to the development of the specification and public review is part of the decision-making process;The specification is available for everybody to study; Intellectual property rights related to the specification are licensed on FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) or royalty-free terms in a way that allows implementation in both proprietary and open source software. Potentially this legislation can be of relevance to EGI since E-Governance, the support by e-Infrastructures for compute or data intensive processing activities relating to the public policy issues that are facing government and the public sector, have already been explored in a number of projects. These include, civil protection (see the Cyclops project), simulating traffic patterns for city planning and citizen trends, or environmental protection (e.g., predicting flooding areas, meteorology). ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM.	EC	Low Relevance	Interoperability and Standards	Completed	31/12/2010
26	Implement European Interoperability Framework at national level			MS
27	Implement Malmo and Granada declarations			MS
28	Reinforced and high level Network and Information Security Policy			EC
29	Combat cyber attacks against information systems			EC
30	Establish a European cybercrime platform			EC
32	Work with global stakeholders on targeted actions against computer-based crime and security attacks			EC
33	Support EU-wide cyber-security preparedness exercises			EC
34	Explore the extension of security breach notification provisions			EC
38	Network of CERTs covering all of Europe			MS
39	Carry out large scale attack simulation and test mitigation strategies			MS
40	Member States - Fully implement harmful content alert hotlines			MS
41	National alert platforms to the Europol cybercrime platform			MS
50	Leverage more private investment			EC
51	Reinforce the coordination and pooling of resources			EC
53	Financial support to joint ICT research infrastructures and innovation clusters			EC
54	Develop a new generation of web-based applications and services			EC
55	Double annual public spending on ICT research and development			MS
56	Engage in large scale pilots financed by the CIP			MS
77	EU-wide standards, interoperability testing and certification of eHealth			EC
89	Make eGovernment services fully interoperable			MS

1: What can EGI do? Action:

• Track and Inform to EGI Community
• Communicate our Contribution

2: Level:

• The European Commission
• The Member States

2: Relevance:

• High Relevance
• Relevant
• Low Relevance

3: Area:

• Interoperability and Standards
• Security
• Users
• Funding

4: Status:

• Delayed
• Risk of delay
• On track
• High Relevance
• Partially completed
• Completed