Once-Only Principle

About four months after the general, national election in Germany took place in September 2017, the three political parties CDU (Christian-Democratic Union), CSU (Christian-Social Union), and SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) have set out their coalition agreement for the next grand coalit

The German County Association ("Deutscher Landkreistag") published a position paper on the digitisation of public administration. One of the five demands towards the federal level claims the implementation of the once only principle. 

Greece will interconnect over 1000 civic registry offices in January in order to create the Hellenic Citizens’ Registry. This allows citizens to only provide data once and public administrations to reuse and share data.

January 1st, 2018 marked the beginning of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU. Bulgaria is committed to work for a digital economy and supports the SDGR - and the once-only principle!

On November 30th 2017, the Council of the European Union adopted its position (general approach) on setting up a single digital gateway

The Council highlights the once-only principle among its top 10 priorities. It specifically addresses the problem of base registries in Germany - read more about it here.