The new European Commission report The state-of-play report on digital public administration and interoperability 2022 , demonstrates that European countries continue their path towards an increasingly digitalised public administration, a trend already perceived in the last few years and further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spain, as reflected in the Monitoring of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) , leads the average results in the three fields analyzed: KPIs, EIF Recommendations and EIF Pillars. The EIF Monitoring Mechanism is organized into three pillars (Principles, Layers and Interoperability Conceptual Model) that group 47 recommendations and 68 KPIs. In most of these indicators, Spain is above the European average.
Within the section on the most recent political communications in support of digital public administration in Europe, the report highlights the adoption by Spain of the Digital Rights Charter , which enshrines a set of principles and rights to guide future regulatory projects and the development of public policies in order to guarantee the protection of individual and collective rights in new digital scenarios.
Regarding the implementation of interoperability principles, the report highlights the application of the “once-only” principle in Spain: “Spanish Laws 39/2015 and 40/2015 promote the use of digital procedures to provide documents to public administrations. They also stipulate that interested parties should not be required by public administrations to provide documents prepared by them. Administrations must also collect documents electronically through their corporate networks or by consulting the Data Intermediation Platform (PID), which is a horizontal service that enables the ‘Once-Only’ principle. It simplifies administrative procedures so that citizens or businesses do not have to deliver data more than once.”
The report sheds light on the initiatives that have been carried out between 2020 and 2022 in terms of digital public administration and interoperability in 35 European countries, as well as on the current state of interoperability within the European Interoperability Framework (EIF). For its evaluation, it is based on a collection of data, on the one hand, of primary indicators, collected through a survey disseminated to the national contact points and, on the other hand, on secondary indicators, collected from external data sources, such as the Open Data Portal , the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) and other EU initiatives. This measures the implementation by the Member States of the 47 recommendations and 68 KPIs of the EIF.
This year's edition of the report provides information on the most recent global initiatives developed since 2020 by various international organizations, such as the United Nations and the World Bank, to support public administrations around the world in their journey towards interoperability and digitization.
