Implementation of the European Interoperability framework in Spain. Text of the presentation.

1. ISA2 EIF Webinar
22 April 2020
Implementation of the European Interoperability
Framework in Spain
Text of the presentation
Contents
1. Opening and contents........................................................................................................... 2
2. The challenge – Role of Interoperability............................................................................... 2
3. A global approach to interoperability................................................................................... 2
4. A sustained effort along the time ......................................................................................... 4
5. The National Interoperability Framework (ENI) Overview ................................................... 4
6. A global approach to interoperability................................................................................... 4
7. The EIF, a reference for the NIF of Spain .............................................................................. 5
8. Alignment with the EIF v2 ..................................................................................................... 5
9. Follow up of solutions & reuse.............................................................................................. 6
10. IOP, a continuous & never ending effort .......................................................................... 7
11. Dashboard – also for Interoperability............................................................................... 7
12. Thank you very much ........................................................................................................ 7

2. 1. Opening and contents
Good morning. Many thanks for the opportunity to offer this lightning
presentation in the EIF Webinar.
Spain is doing a considerable effort in the implementation of interoperability
in particular, aligned with the EIF.
Let´s see why, the key factors of how, and the approach to the implementation
of the EIF.
2. The challenge – Role of Interoperability
From our point of view, interoperability has an enabler role:
- To ensure the fulfillment of rights and obligations, for citizens and public
administrations
- To Provide digital public services, reaching all, in a complex
administrative scenario
- for effectiveness and efficiency
The provision of digital public services in Spain involves multiple actors,
different in their powers and interactions amongst them: the General State
Administration, seventeen (17) regional governments and two (2) autonomous
cities, plus over eight thousand (8,000) local entities, public universities and
other entities under public law.
This means we have to cope with diversity and complexity.
And we understood that strong cooperation, essential to provide better
quality services to citizens and in a more efficient, effective and transparent
way, requires strong interoperability. Surely we could say it the other way
round.
3. A global approach to interoperability
So, how do we manage to achieve this cooperation and interoperability?
Our approach to interoperability is based on the dynamic interaction and
evolution of three main issues:

3. The legal framework:
We have developed an exhaustive legal framework which covers all the
areas related to digital public services and that provides legal certainty.
Together with an intense normative development in provisions of lower rank and
supporting documents.
This legal layer, the rules of the game:
- Allows a large scale expansion of services.
- Contributes to fight reluctance to change.
Indeed, interoperability has become one of the principles included in the
Public Legal System, and it happens that things that used to be part of the NIF
appear now in the upper legal layer.
Without the proper legal framework there is no legal certainty. With only the
legal framework there is only paper.
Cooperation and Governance:
In spite of the administrative complexity there are cooperation and governance
structures that work and link all public administrations in Spain.
Also there are the forums for public-private cooperation, open to the
participation of society, that allow the management of complex issues for digital
transformation with multiple stakeholders, under the leadership of the
Administration.
Without cooperation and governance there is fragmentation of efforts, lack of
economies of scale and no consensus building. With only cooperation there is
only goodwill.
Services:
Without digital services there is no reality in practice.
There is a catalogue of services for digital administration that respond to the
functions defined in the provisions of the legal framework.

4. These services, offered to all Public Administrations, introduce rationality
and economies of scale and they work as building blocks enabling the
development of more complex services like the Citizen´s Folder.
The use of cloud technology enables particularly the integration of local
entities and small entities.
4. A sustained effort along the time
What we are presenting here today it´s not been done overnight. It is the result
of a collective and multidisciplinary effort sustained along the time.
5. The National Interoperability Framework (ENI)
Overview
An overview of our NIF can be structured into four aspects: legal framework,
support, ecosystem and monitoring.
6. A global approach to interoperability
All public administrations [central, regional, local (through their association of
Spanish local entities, the FEMP) public administrations and public universities
(through their association, the CRUE)] cooperate by means of the Sectorial
Commission of Electronic Administration, whose functions include
Ecosystem that facilitates flow of data and
services
Aligned with the EIF
12 IOP Agreements
 Catalogue of Standards
 E-Document
 Digitization of Documents
 E-File
 E-Signature and certificatesPolicy
 DataIntermediation (OOP)
Supporting guides and documents (>20)
 DataModels
 E-Doc Management Policy + Metadata Schema
 Connection toAdministrative Network of PublicAdministrations
 Procedures for authentic copies and conversion of Documentos
 Exhange of records bewteen Official Input/Output Registries
 Reuse of Public Sector Information
+ Administrative Laws 39/2015 & 40/2015
LegalFramework
Support
Ecosystem
Monitoring

5. ensuring interoperability and cooperation in the delivery of public
services.
Also, the General State Administration has a governance structure with the
participation of all ministries.
And our CIO, the General Secretary of Digital Administration, plays a key role
in the work of those two cooperation and governance structures.
7. The EIF, a reference for the NIF of Spain
Each one of the three issues we have mentioned, legal framework, cooperation
and governance, and services contribute to interoperability and to the alignment
with the EIF.
We developed our National Interoperability Framework following the wave
of the European Interoperability Framework.
In fact, the EIF has been the reference to structure and develop the multiple
variables and elements of interoperability, and every action was designed in
alignment with the European model, including the notion of the link with
equivalent European instruments.
How do we do that work? The way we work is the following:
 Early alignment, with internal dissemination
 Feedback & contribution.
 Integration in common infrastructures and sectorial services
 Reuse of interoperability assets, solutions, building blocks. We will come
back to this later when talking about the ISA2 actions.
 Follow up of monitoring surveys & factsheets
8. Alignment with the EIF v2
The alignment is based on the previous work done with the first version of
the EIF. Together with the work done during the drafting of the EIF v2.

6. So, what are we doing? The alignment with the EIFv2 is following this
approach:
1. Traffic light and gap analysis of the Principles and
Recommendations. The same approach was applied to the Tallinn
Declaration and the Regulation on the Single Digital Gateway.
2. Homework: we have identified the areas to be reinforced (red) and those
ones that offer opportunities for improvement (yellow).
3. We filled out the draft EIFv2 monitoring questionnaire and provided
feedback: proposals to simplify & clarify.
4. We filled out the EIFv2 monitoring questionnaire.
9. Follow up of solutions & reuse
I have mentioned the integration with equivalent European solutions and
building blocks. We follow up the ISA2 WP actions and solutions and identify
correspondences with our own actions. We can say that around 75% of its
actions have a correspondence with actions carried out by our Administration.
We do the same with the building blocks of CEF-Telecom and with other
initiatives.
The follow up and reuse is made in the following way:
i. Link with operational instruments. (In some cases there are operational links; it is
the case of the link of our administrative network RedSARA to the European network
TESTA or the link of our Technology Transfer Center (CTT) with JOINUP, or the eIDAS
Node).
ii. Reuse. (CIRCABC is reused for our committees and working groups; and the EUPL,
explicitly mentioned in the NIF in many solutions available through the mentioned CTT.)
iii. Implementation of specifications. (DCAT-AP has been implemented in the PSI
portal datos.gob.es, federated with the EU Data Portal; ADMS in the Technology Transfer
Center (CTT) for the link with JOINUP; and ELI the European Legislative Identifier under the
leadership of the BOE doing an extraordinary job to implement it in the official diaries in
Spain.)
iv. Use of services. (CAMSS is being used for the identification of technical specifications;
CAMSS has a long story, we used the criteria for the selection of specifications defined in
the first version some years ago in our NIF, and it is now ten years since the idea of
CAMSS was promoted by Mr. Per-Olav Gramstad in the IDABC Conference in February
2008.)

7. v. Participation in pilots. (Application of EIRA to the Citizen´s Folder, a pilot with
Portugal about CPSV-AP, participation in the pilot EIFv2 monitoring.)
vi. Proposing actions to the Work Programme. (It is the case of the actions on a
common approach to the exchange of eDocuments and eFiles which produced the
eDocument Reference Architecture; and the action on representation powers and
mandates.)
10. IOP, a continuous & never ending effort
Interoperability is a never ending effort that deserves continuous attention
since it is a key for the digital transformation.
So, we should:
 Keep the dynamics of the global approach: Legal framework +
cooperation and co-responsibility + common services.
 Keep a collective and multidisciplinary effort, along the time, with
engagement of stakeholders, institutional and professional.
 Keep alignment with the EU: OOP projects, Single Digital Gateway,
ISA2 solutions, building blocks, DEP…
11. Dashboard – also for Interoperability
Together with the monitoring provided by the dashboard called DATAOBSAE
from our Observatory of Electronic Administration. We share with ISA2 the
importance of quantifying the impact of interoperability.
12. Thank you very much
Thank you very much for your attention.