Workshops Jamboree 2008

Round 1 – Room A – France - Large Scale Pilot

Workshop on the Large Scale pilot

SPOCS ‘Simple Procedures Online for Crossborder Services’

The large scale pilot SPOCS has been elaborated in accordance with the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Policy Support Programme of the competitiveness and innovation programme and the i2010 EU strategic framework. The work developed within the pilot aims at contributing to the development of a European Information Society for growth and jobs.

A consistent implementation of art. 8 of the Services Directive requires to take stock in existing services within Member States and to develop interoperable exchanges of authentic electronic dossiers. The Large Scale Pilot SPOCS intends to address these issues by differentiating informational – contents – and transactional levels. The development and testing of the specifications that will be elaborated will be conducted bearing in mind the need to provide open, reliable, replicable and scalable solutions. To that end, specific dissemination efforts will be made.

This project aims at reinforcing administrative cooperation with regard to the Services Directive in order to favour mutual recognition of data of reference between Member States and to facilitate cross-verifications of the demands presented by service providers.

Round 1 – Room B – Germany - PSC Baden-Württemberg

In this workshop one of the German architectures for PSC will be further explored. Basis of this workshop is the architecture of the PSC of Baden-Württemberg.

Round 1 – Room C – Romania - Feedback on Romanian PSC

Continuing 5 years of Point of Single Contact experience

Since 2003 Romania started to implement the concepts of PSC.

Nowadays the administration culture of slow motion is a liability yet to be overcome.

A young but stronghearted team, called The Agency for Information Society Services (ASSI), is working to put the Service Directive concepts on the fast track. A public institution with a business culture, designated as the owner of the old PSC and the developer of the new one, presents to you “the way we want to be” for the Point of Single Contact: positioning, concept, high level architecture and some in deep details.

What you will find inside the workshop?

• An 100% original concept presented to you
• An experienced speaker: Mr. Daniel Gruia, the president of the Agency
• An excellent opportunity for you to take and give ideas regarding: SLAs in public administration and PSCs interoperability. Feel free to add other interesting subjects on PSC concepts.

How we succeed?

During the night we sleep like babies. We wake up every two hours and we cry…

Round 2 – Room A – France - Chambers of Commerce

The CFE as Services Directive’s Single Point of Contact.

The French Single Point of Contact system will be built upon the already existing CFE network.

The CFE network comprises 7 participating organisations:

1. Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI)
2. Chambres des Métiers et de l’Artisanat (CMA)
3. Chambres d’agriculture (CA)
4. les greffes des tribunaux de commerce (Commercial Courts)
5. URSSAF (Social Welfare organisations)
6. Chambre Nationale de la Batellerie Artisanale (CNBA)
7. Centres des impôts (tax services)

and was created in 1981 under a government initiative to allow companies to apply, in the same place and using the same document, for the necessary declarations, which are compulsory by law, concerning their creation, modifications to their situation or concerning suspension of activity.

The various CFE have electronic systems facilitating the accomplishment at a distance of procedures and formalities.

This workshop will present the existing role of the French CFE System and explore the ongoing projects to extend the competencies and modernise the CFE system to assume the function of Services Directive’s Single Point of Contact.

Presentation will be made by the ACFCI, the national public establishment responsible for the direction and amalgamation of the French Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI).

Round 2 – Room B – Denmark - Sending forms and eDocs in absence of EU interoperability

Practical solutions for sending forms and documents to the PSC in the absence of European interoperability.

• DK-PPpresentation of Danish solution (10-15 min.).
• Feedback from other MS and general discussion on the topic

Expected content of DK-PPpresentation:

• Short overview of the low practical Danish solution
• Necessary prerequisites for low practical solutions
• Advantages with the low practical solution
• Possible drawbacks with low practical solution

Round 2 – Room C – Sweden - Demo MyBusiness

The webportal "MyBusiness" is jointly developed by the Swedish Companies Registration Office, The Swedish National Tax Board and the the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. The portal will "integrate" information and e-services from the three agencies and create an enterprise- and technical architecture that will allow more agencies on central- regional- and local level to join the portal.

The workshop will give a brief presentation of the portal itself.

Main topics of the presentation will be;

• Multi-stakeholder process-oriented and user-centric design, talking to, not about Entrepreneurs
• Enterprise- and technical architecture, designing a portal with a federated approach

Round 3 – Room A - Austria - Legal and organizational structure of PSC; e-governent architecture

The workshop will cover thoughts and plans on the legal and organizational structure of PSC in AT.

As the Service Directive requires the "full" electronic completion of procedures and formalities, the main features of the eGovernment architecture shall be presented taking into account all necessary steps and building blocks in the sense of a holistic picture. This includes possible solutions for navigation from the EU-level and the national eGovernment portal to the portals of the PSC, an approach for a higher level of interoperability between the PSC-portals by the usage of structured information (ELKAT-Services) and the technical approach to it (content syndication, web services and web applications) as well as the electronic delivery of the "output" of the procedure.

Round 3 – Room B - Italy - Scope of PSC (besides service providers)

This workshop will be a introduction of the Italian PSC, it's main aims and goals and a demonstration of the Italian PSC
www.impresa.gov.it itself in a PPpresentation.

Round 3 – Room C - United Kingdom & Netherlands - Branding

How do EU-entrepreneurs get to know our Point of Single Contact (PSC)? How can they find it? How do they know it's a governmental PSC and not a commercial one? During the workshop Branding the PSC we want to make a start in answering these questions and more…

Round 4 – Room A - Estonia - Role of the Company Register Portal in the Estonian SPC

The Company Registration Portal (CReP) of the Commercial Register is run by the Centre of Registers and Information Systems (RIK). Its main purpose is to make the life of the existing and future entrepreneurs easier and save them time spent on communicating with the Commercial Register. The portal provides for fast, convenient and easy registration of a company while retaining legal certainty. The key target group is the entrepreneurs, who wish to register a new company, submit company’s annual report or change their information in the Commercial Register. Another major target group is the citizens, who wish to engage in entrepreneurship. ettevotjaportaal.

Round 4 – Room B - Portugal - Competent authorities

The workshop will be about the connection with the competent authorities and the Portugeze approach for this.