The first thematic SCOOP4C workshop titled "Ensuring comprehensive coverage in the collection of Once-Only Principle (OOP) cases" took place on Tuesday, 14 March 2017 in Brussels. 25 practitioners of national or regional public administrations discussed their experience applying the once-only principle.

At the outset, Serge Novaretti from DG CONNECT underlined the team effort on the part of DG CONNECT for supporting the two Horizon 2020 projects focusing on the once-only principle (OOP) SCOOP4C and TOOP, and in particular the importance of the stakeholder community for the success of the SCOOP4C project.

Stakeholder play a central role in the success of OOP 

Professor Maria Wimmer from the University Koblenz-Landau, coordinator of SCOOP4C, gave an overview of the project and its objectives. She underlined the importance of better understanding the benefits of OOP for citizens and public administrations, the barriers to its implementation, and key enables that might facilitate the overcoming of such barriers. Finally, she also pointed out the prominent position that stakeholders will have in SCOOP4C and their crucial role for the project’s success.

Professor Robert Krimmer from the Tallinn University of Technology introduced TOOP, the other Horizon 2020 project dealing with the once-only principle (OOP) that is coordinated by him. Unlike SCOOP4C, which clearly focusses on OOP for citizens and aims at advancing the discussion on this topic by creating a stakeholder community, TOOP will pilot OOP use cases for the business community by implementing an OOP architecture. In doing so, TOOP will build upon architectures and systems that already exist in the participating countries, thus utilizing the wealth of experience with OOP present throughout Europe. Mr Krimmer mentioned that SCOOP4C and TOOP will closely coordinate in certain areas, such as communication and dissemination. 

Analysis of best-practice cases needed 

Jonathan Cave from the Warwick University in the UK presented the recent EU-funded study “EU-wide digital Once-Only Principle for citizens and businesses - Policy options and their impacts”. He underlined the need to assess costs and benefits of OOP implementation, as well as impacts and best-practices in a more systematic and comprehensive way across Europe. 

Geert Mareels from Informatie Vlaanderen of the Flemish Region of Belgium presented “Maximum Data Sharing Between Administrations and Agencies” (MAGDA) system, which lays the groundwork for numerous OOP applications. He showed that MADGA has saved up to 100 Mio per year and  explained the implications of some concrete OOP services, such as student grants, child benefit extensions, and the automated compensation for public works.

Different approaches, various outcomes

John Kootstra from the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations of the Netherlands talked about the re-use of data in his country. After explaining the history and legal context, he presented the system of base registries in the Netherlands aimed at efficient data re-use, which serves as the basis for OOP applications. In addition, Mr Kootstra shared some numbers on the system’s usage and the future plans on extending data re-use and the once-only principle (OOP).

In the following elevator pitch five different examples were presented. These were:

• Vehicle registration and de-registration in Bulgaria was presented by Kamen Spassov from the e-Government Laboratory of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, who stressed the anti-corruption benefits of applying the OOP,
• The child benefit application process in Austria, which works as a “no-stop-shop” relieving parents of burdensome communication to multiple public administrations after their child’s birth, was presented by Vanessa Kroyer from IT-Kommunal GmbH,
• The digitalization of asylum procedures in Germany based on the XAusländer standard was presented by Sirko Hunnius from ]init[ AG, who underlined the advantages of the OOP for interacting with multitude of administrative stakeholders under the German federal system,
• The Estonian e-Notary application, which requires a physical presence for historic and cultural reasons, but allows notary services to be completed immediately thanks to the OOP principle was presented by Katrin Merike Nyman-Metcalf from EGA

Documents

You can find all presentations of the different speakers in our section "Presentations and Publications" in the section Project Materials on our website.

Agenda