About ICCS-CIEC The International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS), an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 15 member states, intends to facilitate the cross-border exchange of information regarding civil status data between registrars. Since its foundation in 1948, the ICCS organization has developed 33 conventions, written 9 recommendations to its member states and compiled documentation on legislation and case-law of the member states. In the context of the active conventions, specific document templates have been formulated in order to facilitate the harmonized document creation…

Europe 2011 - The biogeographical regions dataset contains the official delineations used in the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and for the EMERALD Network set up under the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) Biogeographical boundaries were obtained from the EU Member States and from the Emerald Network countries. These were merged together to produce a European wide map of the biogeographical regions independent of political boundaries. A number of the regions were updated during the work under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive (92/43…

Definition XML schema that enables the electronic exchange of extracts from civil-status records concerning birth registration. This solution was issued in pursuance of the Convention 16 signed at Vienna on September 8, 1976. Objectives Enables the electronic exchange of extract from birth registration between different countries and offices; Contains the minimum set of mandatory fields that must be filled in order for the extract from birth registration to be valid; Allows to overcome the language barrier by setting codes that can be translated to all languages of ICCS using a translation…

Definition XML schema that enables the electronic exchange of extracts from civil-status records concerning marriage registration. This solution was issued in pursuance of the Convention 16 signed at Vienna on September 8, 1976. Objectives Enables the electronic exchange of extract from marriage registration between different countries and offices; Contains the minimum set of mandatory fields that must be filled in order for the extract from marriage registration to be valid; Allows to overcome the language barrier by setting codes that can be translated to all languages of ICCS using a…

Definition XML schema that enables the electronic exchange of Civil Status Certificates extracts concerning marriage registration. This solution was issued in pursuance of the Convention 16 signed at Vienna on September 8, 1976. Objectives Enables the electronic exchange of extract from marriage registration between different countries and offices; Contains the minimum set of mandatory fields that must be filled in order for the extract from marriage registration to be valid; Allows to overcome the language barrier by setting codes that can be translated to all languages of ICCS using a…

Botanical gardens located in Switzerland and France have together developed an application consisting of microservices for documenting and sharing data among each other and potentially other gardens. Les Convervatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the city of Geneva, CJB) is a museum and an institution in Geneva, Switzerland. It took the initiative to a new open source toolkit, Botalista, which was finished in September 2020. It is meant to address all the needs of botanical gardens. The botanical gardens involved, in Paris, Bordeaux, Bern and…

Background The Location Interoperability Framework Observatory (LIFO) monitors the implementation of location interoperability good practices in European public administrations, based on the level of adoption of recommendations in the EULF Blueprint. The overview of 2020 location interoperability status in Switzerland is based on the information provided by swisstopo (Federal Statistics Office and the Federal Office of Topography). LIFO 2020 Switzerland Overview The information collected through the LIFO 2020 data collection indicates that Switzerland has performed above the average of the…