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The 'European Interoperability Framework' (EIF) is a set of recommendations which specify how [Administration (government)|Administrations], [Business]es and [Citizen]s communicate with each other within the [European Union|EU]and across [Member State of the European Union|Member States] borders.

The EIF 1.0 was issued under the Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens programme (IDABC）The EIF continues under the new [Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA)|ISA] programme, which replaced the IDABC programme on 31 December 2009.

EIF in effect is an [Enterprise architecture framework] targeted at the largest possible scale, designed to promote integration spanning multiple sovereign [Nation state|Nation States], specifically EU Member States.

For further examples of Enterprise Architecture frameworks designed operate at different levels of scale, see also [The Open Group Architecture Framework#Alternative enterprise architecture frameworks|Alternative Enterprise Architecture Frameworks]

Versions

EIF Version 1.0

EIF Version 1.0[1][2][3] was published in November 2004.

Further non-technology obstacles that stand in the way of greater EIF adoption include the facts that EU Member States currently differ widely in terms of:

  • Scope of government - services provided, degree of state ownership of businesses, scale of armed forces, police and border control operations
  • Structure of government - central/local government balance, what departments exist, how departments interact
  • Citizen/state interaction models - processes related to key life events (births, marriages, deaths), document issue procedures, support for foreign languages

EIF Version 2

Draft Version 2 of the EIF[2] was the subject of a political debate, where the main technology/commercial issues relate to the role of lobbying for proprietary software.[4]

EIF 2 was adopted by the European Commission as the Annex II - EIF (European Interoperability Framework) of the Communication “Towards interoperability for European public services” on 16 December 2010.[5]

'New EIF'

On 23 March 2017, the ISA2 programme released a new version of EIF. This version dropped version numbers and is simply called 'new EIF' and should include policy changes of the past years.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "IDABC - EIF - European Interoperability Framework for pan-European eGovernment services". Retrieved 2010-12-17.
  2. ^ a b "IDABC - Documentation on the European Interoperability Framework". Retrieved 2010-12-17.
  3. ^ "European Interoperability Framework Version 1.0" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-01-11.
  4. ^ EIFv2: Tracking the loss of Interoperability, FSFE
  5. ^ "Annex 2 to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions 'Towards interoperability for European public services'" (PDF). Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  6. ^ "New European Interoperability Framework at the website of the European Commission, ISA2 programme". Retrieved 14 April 2017.


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