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 data protection legislation. 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: ANALYSE LEGISLATION WHEN IT IS ADOPTED (SERGIO ANDREOZZI AND MICHEL DRESCHNER) 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. This is hot topic for cloud computing and it will be more relevant to EGI with virtualisation adoption. ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM.	EC	Low Relevance In Long term Relevant	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	In 2010 the Commission adopted the European Interoperability Strategy and a European Interoperability Framework (EIF). By 2013 Member States should align their national interoperability frameworks to the EIF. (See action 24). The Commission will assist the Member States through supporting actions, including awareness raising and exchange of information on national interoperability frameworks.	NGIs should track the Member States adoption of a national interoperability framework, in line with the European one. ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM. ACTION: COMMUNICATE OUR SUCCESS STORY ON EGI INTEROPERABILITY IMPLEMENTATION ON NATIONAL LEVEL BETWEEN DIFFERENT NGIs.	MS	Low Relevance	Interoperability and Standards	31/12/2013	On track
27	Implement Malmo and Granada declarations	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. The European Commission will establish a framework to provide guidance on the selection of standards and specifications to the Member States by the end 2011. In 2012, will launch a new Large Scale Pilot within the CIP ICT PSP with the aim of developing and demonstrating EU-wide interoperability between national systems in the public sector.	EGI.eu and NGIs should track the adoption of the framework. ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM.	MS	Low Relevance	Interoperability and Standards	31/12/2013	On track
28	Reinforced high level Network and Information Security Policy	Strong cooperation between EU governments, public bodies and private companies is necessary to improve information exchange and to ensure that security problems are addressed quickly and effectively. The European Network Information and Security Agency (ENISA) serves as a focal point for this exchange and cooperation. Enhanced ENISA is expected to have a significant positive economic impact, as the current costs associated with network and information security breaches are already considerable and are still growing. In 2011 EC will: publish a Communication containing the principles for internet resilience and stability at the European and global level and ensure that the heads of the respective institutions will sign the agreement to establish the CERT for the EU institutions. In 2012 EC will ensure that the regulations on ENISA will be adopted at the EU level and make sure that CERT will become operational.	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 future EU security and trust policies. EGI should improve communication with the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) through formal collaboration (signing MoU) or by other means if signing of MoU is not possible. It is important to show to that EGI has put in place security policy groups that are responsible for developing the policy and procedures needed to provide NGIs with a secure, trustworthy distributed computing infrastructure in order to address security issues more efficiently and effectively. ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM ACTION: ESTABLISH COOPERATION WITH ENISA (PDT AND MINGCHAO MA)	EC	Relevant	Security	31/12/2012	On track
29	Combat cyber attacks against information systems	Attacks against information systems are a growing threat, and there is an increasing concern about the potential for terrorist or politically motivated attacks against information systems which form part of the critical infrastructures of Member States and the Union. In 2011 EC will: proceed with the legislative process towards adopting the Directive on Attacks against Information Systems which will update the current level of protection and take account of new developments. In 2012 EC will finalise the negotiations on the Directive and ensure that it will be adopted at the EU level. Member States are required to take the necessary measures within two years from adoption of the Directive.	EGI.eu needs to ensure that EGI security policy groups are aware of the Directive on Attacks against Information Systems. ACTION: TRACK AND INFORM	EC	Low Relevance	Security	31/12/2013	On track
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:

• Analyse legislation, policies, guidelines
• Track action and Inform EGI Community
• Communicate our Contribution and/or Success Story
• Establish Cooperation

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