{"id":17927,"date":"2022-09-18T19:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legalblog.ie\/?p=17927"},"modified":"2022-09-24T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T21:05:34","slug":"digital-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digital-gateway\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Gateway [EU]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_63 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digital-gateway\/#The_single_digital_gateway\" title=\"The single digital gateway\">The single digital gateway<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digital-gateway\/#A_single_online_point_of_access_to_information_procedures_and_assistance\" title=\"A single online point of access to information, procedures and assistance\">A single online point of access to information, procedures and assistance<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digital-gateway\/#Digitised_administration\" title=\"Digitised administration\">Digitised administration<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digital-gateway\/#Implementation\" title=\"Implementation\">Implementation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digital-gateway\/#Implementing_act\" title=\"Implementing act\">Implementing act<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digital-gateway\/#Application\" title=\"Application\">Application<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digital-gateway\/#MAIN_DOCUMENT\" title=\"MAIN DOCUMENT\">MAIN DOCUMENT<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_single_digital_gateway\"><\/span>The single digital gateway<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Regulation (EU) 2018\/1724 establishing a single digital gateway to provide access to information, to procedures and to assistance and problem-solving services<\/p>\n<p>The single digital gateway will facilitate online access to the information, key administrative procedures and assistance and problem-solving services that citizens and businesses may wish to contact if they encounter problems when exercising their internal market rights while living in or doing business in another EU country.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_single_online_point_of_access_to_information_procedures_and_assistance\"><\/span>A single online point of access to information, procedures and assistance<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The single digital gateway will guide citizens and companies to information on national and EU rules, rights and procedures, as well as to the websites where they can carry out these procedures online. Users looking for help will be guided towards assistance and problem-solving services.<\/p>\n<p>In practical terms, a search function on the \u2018Your Europe\u2019 portal will give access to:<br \/>\ninformation \u2014 citizens will be able to easily find reliable, qualitative information on EU and national rules that apply to them when they want to exercise their internal market rights;<br \/>\nprocedures \u2014 citizens will find out exactly how to carry out administrative procedures and what steps they need to follow;<br \/>\nassistance \u2014 if users are still confused about which rules apply or if they have trouble with a procedure, they will be guided to the most suitable EU or national assistance service to solve their problem.<\/p>\n<p>The quality, user-friendliness and adequacy of the information provided by the European Commission and by authorities in EU countries will be monitored on the basis of user feedback.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Digitised_administration\"><\/span>Digitised administration<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The regulation establishing the gateway also requires that the key administrative procedures be available online to both users in their own country as well as to cross-border users.<\/p>\n<p>By 12 December 2023 at the latest, a list of 21 important administrative procedures will be fully available online in all EU countries. These cover situations that are relevant for doing business, working, studying or moving from one location to another. Examples include:<br \/>\nrequesting a proof of residence;<br \/>\napplying for study grants;<br \/>\nasking for academic recognition of diplomas;<br \/>\nregistering a vehicle;<br \/>\ngetting a European Health Insurance Card;<br \/>\nclaiming pension benefits; and<br \/>\nregistering employees for pension and insurance schemes.<\/p>\n<p>All national online procedures will have to be made fully accessible to cross-border users.<br \/>\nThe \u2018once-only principle\u2019 (i.e. users should not have to submit to authorities documents or data already held by other authorities) will be applied to cross-border exchanges of evidence for a range of procedures. For these procedures, users will be given the option to request the direct exchange of evidence between authorities in different EU countries.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, starting in December 2020, users will be able to provide feedback on problems they come across in the single market, with a view to improving policymaking.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Implementation\"><\/span>Implementation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The functioning of the gateway will be supported by technical tools developed by the Commission in cooperation with national administrations. A gateway coordination group composed of the national coordinators and the Commission will support the regulation\u2019s implementation. The application of the regulation will be reviewed in December 2022 and the functioning of the gateway will be reviewed every 2 years from 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Compliance package<\/p>\n<p>The regulation is part of a compliance package launched in 2017, which also included a proposal for a single market information tool and improvements to Solvit, the free assistance service for the internal market.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Implementing_act\"><\/span>Implementing act<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In 2020, the Commission adopted Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020\/1121, which sets the rules on collecting and sharing user statistics and feedback on the services of the single digital gateway. The data collected will be used by the service providers, national coordinators and by the Commission to monitor whether the services provided through the gateway comply with the quality criteria and to improve those services and the functionality of the single digital gateway.<br \/>\nImplementing Regulation (EU) 2020\/1121 was accompanied by a Commission declaration, which states that it intends to explore, together with the EU countries in the context of the gateway coordination group, the feasibility of and the demand for a common EU-level service managed by the Commission. Another solution could be proposed to facilitate the collection and transmission of statistics related to webpages that are part of the gateway and are under the responsibility of municipal authorities.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Application\"><\/span>Application<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It applies from 12 December 2020. However, articles concerning the digitalisation of procedures, the cross-border availability of procedures and the use of \u2018once-only\u2019 system will apply from 12 December 2023. The obligation concerning the availability of information by municipal authorities will apply as of 12 December 2022.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"MAIN_DOCUMENT\"><\/span>MAIN DOCUMENT<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Regulation (EU) 2018\/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 October 2018 establishing a single digital gateway to provide access to information, to procedures and to assistance and problem-solving services and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024\/2012 (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, pp. 1-38)<\/p>\n<p>RELATED DOCUMENTS<\/p>\n<p>Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020\/1121 of 29 July 2020 on the collection and sharing of user statistics and feedback on the services of the single digital gateway in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018\/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 245, 30.7.2020, pp. 3-14)<\/p>\n<p>Commission Declaration accompanying the Commission Implementing Regulation on the collection and sharing of user statistics and feedback on the services of the single digital gateway in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018\/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ C 250, 30.7.2020, p. 5)<\/p>\n<p>Commission Recommendation 2013\/461\/EU of 17 September 2013 on the principles governing SOLVIT (OJ L 249, 19.9.2013, pp. 10-15)<\/p>\n<p>Regulation (EU) No 1024\/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System and repealing Commission Decision 2008\/49\/EC (\u2018the IMI Regulation\u2019) (OJ L 316, 14.11.2012, pp. 1-11)<\/p>\n<p>Successive amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1024\/2012 have been incorporated into the original text. This consolidated version is of documentary value only.<\/p>\n<p>Directive 2006\/123\/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market (OJ L 376, 27.12.2006, pp. 36-68)<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-17927\" data-postid=\"17927\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-17927 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The single digital gateway Regulation (EU) 2018\/1724 establishing a single digital gateway to provide access to information, to procedures and to assistance and problem-solving services The single digital gateway will facilitate online access to the information, key administrative procedures and assistance and problem-solving services that citizens and businesses may wish to contact if they encounter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18328,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927\/revisions\/18328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}