Menu
Home
People
Places
Arts
History
Plants & Animals
Science
Life & Culture
Technology
Reference.org
European Interoperability Framework
open-in-new
<h2 id="versions">Versions</h2> <h3>EIF Version 1.0</h3> <p>EIF Version 1.0<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> was published in November 2004. </p><p>Further non-technology obstacles that stand in the way of greater EIF adoption include the facts that <a href="/facts/European_Union/6GYcR8qM">EU</a> <a href="/facts/Member_State_of_the_European_Union/hsFC1pJH">Member States</a> currently differ widely in terms of: </p> <ul><li>Scope of government - services provided, degree of state ownership of businesses, scale of armed forces, police and border control operations</li> <li>Structure of government - central/local government balance, what departments exist, how departments interact</li> <li>Citizen/state interaction models - processes related to key life events (births, marriages, deaths), document issue procedures, support for foreign languages</li></ul> <h3>EIF Version 2</h3> <p>Draft Version 2 of the EIF<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> was the subject of a <a href="/facts/Political_debate/uCR5tVD1">political debate</a>, where the main technology/commercial issues relate to the role of lobbying for proprietary software.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>EIF 2 was adopted by the European Commission as the <i>Annex II - EIF (European Interoperability Framework)</i> of the <i>Communication “Towards interoperability for European public services”</i> on 16 December 2010.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h3>'New EIF'</h3> <p>On 23 March 2017, the ISA2 programme released a new version of EIF. This version dropped version numbers and is simply called 'new EIF' and should include policy changes of the past years.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Semantic_Interoperability_Centre_Europe/x5VPUGuH">Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/3473/5585.html">Documentation on the European Interoperability Framework 1.0 and Draft version of 2.0</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.epractice.eu/en/library/5275072">Documentation on the European Interoperability Framework</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"IDABC - EIF - European Interoperability Framework for pan-European eGovernment services". Retrieved 2010-12-17. <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/2319/5938.html" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/2319/5938.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"IDABC - Documentation on the European Interoperability Framework". Retrieved 2010-12-17. <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/3473.html#finalEIF" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/3473.html#finalEIF</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"European Interoperability Framework Version 1.0" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-01-11. <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Docd552.pdf?id=19529" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Docd552.pdf?id=19529</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"IDABC - Documentation on the European Interoperability Framework". Retrieved 2010-12-17. <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/3473.html#finalEIF" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/3473.html#finalEIF</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>EIFv2: Tracking the loss of Interoperability, FSFE <a href="http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html" target="_blank">http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Annex 2 to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions 'Towards interoperability for European public services'" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 7 August 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304233755/http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160304233755/http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"New European Interoperability Framework at the website of the European Commission, ISA2 programme". 16 February 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2017. <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/eif_en" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/eif_en</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>