On February 07, the Better Legislation for Smoother Implementation (BLSI) community held its first 2023 BLSI virtual breakfast! This event, one of a series of webinars, has focused on turning the Joinup community space more co-creative, and gathering your ideas and needs for future training material. We extend our gratitude to the attendees for their active participation, and to the panelists, Bernard Claes and Petro Dudi from the Joinup team, for their insightful contributions to the webinar. The key highlights of the event and a link to the recording can be found below: Key takeaways Digital…

Our legal interoperability team is committed to promoting relevant events and bringing to your attention concepts such as Open Source Software! Three different Open Source events will take place at the beginning of February: Open Forum Europe’s EU Open-Source Policy Summit 2023, will be held on the 3rd of February 2023. This hybrid event will bring together Open Source and policy experts for speeches and panels on how Europe can benefit from large-scale technological collaboration. Participants can attend in person, if in Brussels, or online. Find out more information about the event here!  On…

As interoperability also requires semantic considerations, which are often touched upon in the legal design, our legal interoperability team would like to bring to your attention the SEMIC Support Centre's calendar of events. During the month of February, you can get acquainted with: The Data Catalogue Application Profile (DCAT-AP). The DCAT-AP provides a common specification for describing public sector datasets in Europe. Its basic use-case is to enable a cross-data portal search for data sets and make public sector data better searchable across borders and sectors. This webinar will take…

On 18 November 2022 the European Commission adopted a proposal for an Interoperable Europe Act to reinforce the interoperability of the public sector in the EU. It aims to enhance the ability of administrations to cooperate and make public services function across borders, sectors and organizations. With the accompanying Communication, the Commission draws a clear link of this topic to digital-ready policymaking. Indicatively from the Interoperable Europe Act Communication: “While the Commission has committed itself to digital-ready policymaking and will ensure its application to policy…

The Legal Interoperability Team is happy to announce the launch of a new training on digital-ready policymaking. You can check the published course on the EU Academy platform. Considering digital aspects from the start of the policy cycle to ensure that policy proposals are ready for the digital age, future-proof and interoperable is crucial for smooth policy implementation. Our training on digital-ready policymaking is in line with the related guidelines of the Commission’s better regulation toolbox (see Tool #28) and it focuses on the six digital-ready components. In case you wish to learn…

On 30 June 2022 the European Commission adopted its new strategy to enhance its own digital transformation: the Next Generation Digital Strategy! For our community, it is excellent news, that one of its five strategic objectives focuses on enabling digital-ready EU policymaking to lead and to include digital thinking from the early stages of the legislative process. To do so, the strategy foresees setting up an advice mechanism for digital-ready policymaking to guide the lead service in charge of a new policy initiative through mandatory digital checks. Our legal interoperability team…

On May 5, the Better Legislation for Smoother Implementation hosted a virtual breakfast on how the use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) can help digital-ready policymaking. During the webinar, the invited speakers, Monica Posada Sanchez and Katarzyna Pogorzelska from Joint Research Centre (JRC), talked about the role of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in data governance and digital coordination, based on the relevant study they conducted, while also presented their findings and what is there for policymakers. Our takeaways from their speech are presented below, together…

On May 5, the Better Legislation for Smoother Implementation hosted a virtual breakfast on how the use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) can help digital-ready policymaking. During the webinar, the participants had the chance to get hands-on experience from the presentation of the Nordic collaboration and development of the NSG&B project where the importance of APIs and the deriving digital-ready policymaking considerations were highlighted by Kjersti Lunde, NSG&B Programme manager at the Danish Business Authority. Our takeaways from her talk are presented below, together with her…

On March 16, the Better Legislation for Smoother Implementation (BLSI) community hosted an online workshop, dedicated to “Policymaking embraces innovation - Drafting and implementing regulatory sandboxes”. During this virtual breakfast, we were honoured to explore with you and our guest speakers the regulatory sandboxes, experiences on them, and also the next steps to be followed. We are thankful for the very rich exchange of ideas to all the participants, including of course our panellists: Lorna Schrefler, European Commission DG RTD Dr. Konstantin Kolloge, German Federal Ministry for…

It is with a lot of enthusiasm that our Legal Interoperability Team attended the Masters of Digital 2022 event hosted by DIGITALEUROPE and the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2022 hosted by OpenForum Europe. The Masters of Digital 2022 event included a series of live debates on top priority digital topics like Artificial Intelligence, Data flows, Green Transition, Digital healthcare and Cyber security. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, referred to the “New rulebook for Europe’s Digital Decade”, and what it reflects. Our team also attended panel debates on “Setting…

On 27 January, the Better Legislation for Smoother Implementation (BLSI) community hosted the first virtual breakfast of the year, dedicated to the question of emerging technologies in regulatory reporting. This webinar was a great opportunity to connect and explore the topic with the audience, building on the preliminary findings of the European Commission’s study on emerging technologies and innovative practices in regulatory reporting. The valuable inputs and suggestions from the participants will be analysed and fed into the study. We had also the pleasure to learn from the experience of…

To better understand the characteristics of multidisciplinary teamwork, thus promote digital-ready policymaking, the legal interoperability team of the European Commission has published an issue paper on multidisciplinary teams in digital-ready policymaking for discussion in our BLSI community. The legal interoperability team produced this paper based on the experience gained through studying of inspiring practices around the world, as well as the interoperability screening of upcoming Commission proposals. Also, the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) reflects the need for…