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The EIF gives guidance, through a set of recommendations, to public administrations on how to improve governance of their interoperability activities, establish cross-organisational relationships, streamline processes supporting end-to-end digital services, and ensure that existing and new legislation do not compromise interoperability efforts.

The EIF is supported by European Interoperability Reference Architecture, a reference architecture that is focused on the interoperability of digital public services.

For the purpose of the EIF, interoperability is the ability of organisations to interact towards mutually beneficial goals, involving the sharing of information and knowledge between these organisations, through the business processes they support, by means of the exchange of data between their ICT systems.

A European public service comprises any public sector service exposed to a cross-border dimension and supplied by public administrations, either to one another or to businesses and citizens in the Union.

The European interoperability framework is a commonly agreed approach to the delivery of European public services in an interoperable manner. It defines basic interoperability guidelines in the form of common principles, models and recommendations.

The EIF’s scope covers three types of interactions:

• A2A (administration to administration), which refers to interactions between public administrations (e.g. Member State or EU Institutions);
• A2B (administration to business), which refers to interactions between public administrations (in a Member State or an EU Institution) and businesses;
• A2C (administration to citizen), which refers to interactions between public administrations (in a Member State or an EU institution) and citizens.

Interoperability principles

Interoperability layers are supported by views of the European Interoperability Reference Architecture

Conceptual model for integrated public services provision
The model's basic components and the related recommendations are:

• European public services
  • #eif01 - Ensure alignment of interoperability frameworks and strategies
  • #eif02 - Publish the data you own as open data unless restrictions apply
  • #eif03 - Demonstrate active and fair consideration of using open source software
  • #eif04 - Give preference to open specifications
  • #eif05 - Ensure internal visibility and provide external interfaces for public services
  • #eif06 - Reuse and share, cooperate in the development of solutions when implementing public services
  • #eif07 - Reuse and share information and data unless privacy or confidentiality restrictions apply
  • #eif08 - Do not impose any technological solutions that are technology-specific or disproportionate to their needs
  • #eif09 - Ensure data portability: data is easily transferable between systems and applications
  • #eif10 - Use multiple channels to provide the public service
  • #eif11 - Provide a single point of contact
  • #eif12 - Put in place mechanisms to involve users
  • #eif13 - Ask users of public services once-only and relevant-only information
  • #eif14 - Ensure public services are accessible to all citizens
  • #eif15 - Ensure secure and trustworthy data exchange
  • #eif16 - Use systems and architectures that cater for multilingualism
  • #eif17 - Simplify processes and use digital channels
  • #eif18 - A long-term preservation policy for information
  • #eif19 - Evaluate the effectiveness & efficiency of interoperability options considering user needs, costs&benefits
  • #eif20 - Holistic governance of interoperability activities across administrative levels and sectors
  • #eif21 - Processes to select standards and specifications
  • #eif22 - A common approach to selecting standards and specifications
  • #eif23 - Consult catalogues of standards, specifications and guidelines
  • #eif24 - Participate in standardisation work relevant to your needs
  • #eif25 - Ensure interoperability and coordination by putting in place a governance structure
  • #eif26 - Establish interoperability agreements in all layers
  • #eif27 - Ensure that legislation is screened by means of interoperability & digital checks
  • #eif28 - Document business processes and agree on how processes should be aligned
  • #eif29 - Clarify and formalise organisational relationships for establishing and operating public services
  • #eif30 - Perceive data and information as a public asset
  • #eif31 - Put in place an information management strategy to avoid fragmentation and duplication
  • #eif32 - Support and encourage sector-specific and cross-sectoral communities for open information specifications
  • #eif33 - Use open specifications, where available, to ensure technical interoperability when establishing public services
  • #eif34 - Use the conceptual model to design or reengineer services, and reuse
  • #eif35 - Decide on a common scheme for interconnecting service components and maintain the necessary infrastructure
  • #eif36 - Develop a shared infrastructure of reusable services & information sources for use by all public administrations
  • #eif37 - Make authoritative sources of information available with access & control mechanisms to ensure security & privacy
  • #eif38 - Develop interfaces, publish the semantic and technical means and documentation
  • #eif39 - Match each base registry with appropriate metadata
  • #eif40 - Create and follow data quality assurance plans for base registries
  • #eif41 - Establish procedures and processes to integrate the opening of data
  • #eif42 - Publish open data in machine-readable, non-proprietary formats
  • #eif43 - Communicate clearly the right to access and reuse open data
  • #eif44 - Put in place catalogues of public services, public data, interoperability solutions
  • #eif45 - Use external information sources and services while developing European public services
  • #eif46 - Consider security & privacy requirements; provision of public services according to risk management plans
  • #eif47 - Use trust services according to the Regulation on eID and Trust Services

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• European Interoperability Framework

The parent item of European Interoperability Framework is Framework, which has child items:

• Enterprise architecture framework
  • ArchiMate Framework
  • Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework
  • IndEA Framework
  • Unified Architecture Framework® (UAF® )
• European Interoperability Framework
• Policy framework
  • EU Taxonomy
  • Sustainable Product Policy Framework
  • Transparency Framework
• Results framework
  • 2030 Agenda Indicators

The (ontological) order of European Interoperability Framework is the Techno Order.
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