Pillar II: Interoperability & Standards
The internet is a great example of interoperability – numerous devices and applications working together anywhere in the world. Europe must ensure that new IT devices, applications, data repositories and services interact seamlessly anywhere – just like the internet. The Digital Agenda identifies improved standard-setting procedures and increased interoperability as the keys to success.
List of Actions
• Action 21: Propose legislation on ICT interoperability
• Action 22: Promote standard-setting rules
• Action 23: Provide guidance on ICT standardisation and public procurement
• Action 24: Adopt a European Interoperability Strategy and Framework
• Action 25: Identify and assess means of requesting significant market players to licence information about their products or services
• Action 26: MS to implement European Interoperability Framework
• Action 27: Member States to implement Malmö and Granada declarations
Strengthening online trust and security
Europe must strengthen its policy to combat cybercrime, child pornography and breaches of privacy and personal data security. The Commission presented measures on network and information security and the fight against cyber attacks in 2013 which will soon become EU law. We want to know what's happening to our personal data, and we need to know that the rules of the game are the same in all 28 countries of the EU.
In parallel, Member States should take measures to establish a well-functioning network at national level and carry out large-scale cyber attack simulations. National alert platforms should be adapted to the Europol cybercrime platform.