Making global ICT Standards available for Europe

BITKOM Forum, FrankfurtOctober 20, 2011

Dr. Jochen FriedrichChair of the BITKOM working group on Standardisation

jochen@de.ibm.com

Standardisation is high on the political agenda

ICT White Paper Standardisation

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UnionDigital Agenda

Standardisation and Innovation

Future of European

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Strategic Vision for European

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Regulation on European

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Focus on ICT Standardisation

“ As foreseen in the 'Digital Agenda for Europe', the Regulation will establish a system whereby the most relevant ICT standards developed by leading Global ICT Fora and Consortia can be used in public procurement to help avoid lockin and encourage competition in the supply of interoperable ICT services, applications and products. […]

The Commission will increasingly use selected ICT standards developed by other standards development organisations than ESOs for European policies, […] in particular when the interoperability between devices, applications, data repositories, services and networks must be further enhanced...”[Communication “A Strategic Vision for European Standards”, COM(2010)311.]

Industrial Policy / Innovation Policy Public Procurement

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Reforming the EU ICT Standardisation Policy: Key Issue

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➔ There is a need to make ICT specifications from fora/consortia available for implementation and use in Europe in EU policies and for public procurement.

➔ This need is reconfirmed in the EU Digital Agenda and addressed in the EU legal package

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Specifics for ICT in the legal package

Communication – COM(2011)311: ● Install ICT Platform as advisory group on ICT standardisation policy● Promote interoperability ● Promote use of fora/consortia standards in policies and

procurement

Regulation – COM(2011)315: ● Process for recognition of ICT fora/consortia specifications (Articles

9 and 10)● Assessment criteria (Annex II)

Integration of global ICT standardisation into European standardisation system

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Relevance of ICT fora/consortia standards for public procurement

● No modern ICT infrastructure can be built without using fora/consortia standards

● Public procurers should be able to reference directly respective global ICT fora/consortia standards ● Make it easier for procurers; ● Avoid need to “copy and paste” functional requirements

● Criteria will ensure openness, transparency, balance, etc.● Consistent with WTO Principles

● Multi-stakeholder platform will ensure proper representation of all interests including societal stakeholders, SMEs, ESOs, national governments, etc.

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Relevance of ICT fora/consortia standards for public policies

● Public policies – not Regulation ! - are an important instrument of innovation policy for Europe

● A strong potential for innovation is in the integration of technologies for optimising processes, methods, etc., e.g.

● eEnergy, eHealth, Intelligent Transportation, smart water supply, etc. ● Integration of technologies requires a combination of standards

● Standards roadmaps ● Global ICT standards from fora/consortia are an important element in this

integration and policy makers need to be able to make use of these standards and include them - “Without all ingredients you will not get a proper recipe.”

● If Europe wants to lead in innovative areas it is important that Europe is able to make direct use of ICT fora/consortia standards in policies

● NB: This is about making use of what is available, not about developing new standards

● The new legal package ensures that the requirements for using fora/consortia standards in policies are clear ("criteria" derived from WTO Principles)

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Clarifying some myths and FUD about the draft Regulation

● Not all fora/consortia specifications will be available for transposition into formal standards.

● Fora/consortia specifications will not get the same level as European Standards / European Norms

● Fora/consortia specifications will not be referenced in legislation. European standards will continue to be developed by the ESOs (see Consideratum 3)

● Articles 9 and 10, are not about developing harmonised standards in support of the European common market but about making use of ICT specifications that are widely used globally anyway and that are critical for modern ICT systems and infrastructures.

● Stakeholder involvement will be ensured via the ICT Platform including Member States, ESOs, SMEs, societal stakeholders, industry

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Integrating ICT fora/consortia specifi-cations into European Standardisation

New Legislative Framework / New Approach

PoliciesPublic Procurement

ICT Specifications from fora/consortia

Transposition into “formal” standard

European Standard/ European Norm

Recognition according to Article 9Common basis for both policies and procurement – Criteria of Annex II

Recognised ICT Specification available for direct referencing

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Recognition Process

Request Assessment Recognition

Public administration

Specific need

Case-by-case

Formal advice from ICT Platform (all stakeholders involved)

National Standards Bodies should assist information process (e.g. notification via web site)

Process for providing comments, raising concerns needs to be available

European Commission (based on advice)

Publication on web site

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Summary

● The ICT industry represented in BITKOM supports the Commission proposals on ICT in the draft Regulation

● The Regulation manages to integrate gobal ICT standardisation done in fora/consortia into the European standardisation system in a complementary way to the existing structures and processes

● ICT specifications from fora/consortia are needed for both public procurement and policies

● Articles 9 and 10 of the Regulation are well drafted and provide for clarity and a common base regarding the use of ICT specifications in policies and procurement