Underlying Principle 5: Technological neutrality and data portability
When establishing European public services, public administrations should focus on functional needs
and defer decisions on technology as long as possible in order to minimise technological dependencies, to avoid
imposing specific technical implementations or products on their constituents. Public administrations should
provide for access and reuse of their public services and data irrespective of specific technologies or
products.The functioning of the digital single market requires data to be easily transferable among different
systems to avoid lock-in, support the free movement of data. This requirement relates to data portability - the
ability to move and reuse data easily among different applications and systems, which becomes even more
challenging in cross-border scenarios.