Preliminary assessment of the second payment request of Romania

established by the interoperability law, it is concluded that, which means that the entire law on interoperability is aligned with the provisions of the European Interoperability Framework. The new law shall put in place a framework/governance to support the selection of relevant standards and rules for the development of applications and services by the public sector in a secure and sustainable environment Articles 4 and 5 of the interoperability law provide for the introduction of NRRI in order to ensure interoperability between public authorities and institutions or private entities for the provision of public services. The NRRI contain common elements consisting of standards, specifications, vocabulary, concepts, principles and practices, binding for institutions and public authorities. In accordance with Article 14 of the interoperability law, the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization has the obligation to draw up the NRRI. Amongst the principles set by Article 5 of the interoperability law, the principles of security and confidentiality ensure the NRRI are secure while

the principle of reuse guarantees that the NRRI are sustainable. This proves that the interoperability law puts in place a framework/governance to support the selection of relevant standards and rules for the development of applications and services by the public sector in a secure and sustainable environment. The new law shall operationalise the migration and integration into existing data structures of data, while ensuring interoperability Chapter IV of the interoperability law lays down the “public authorities and institutions responsible for the establishment and implementation of the National Interoperability Platform and their tasks”. By setting the responsible public authorities and institutions and by establishing their obligations with respect to the management and functioning of the National Interoperability Platform, the migration and integration of data into existing data structures is operationalised and interoperability is ensured, also in view of article 1(3), 9(9) and 16(3) of the interoperability law.

The new law shall ensure that the implementation of functionalities involves aligning the national identification and authorisation infrastructures with EU Member States in a transnational scheme, in accordance with the European rules laid down in the eIDAS Regulation (EU) 2014/910 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market Article 17(i) of the interoperability law provides that IT projects of public institutions, which implement required functionalities, are only approved if they align with “the national identification and authorization infrastructures notified by the Authority for the Digitalisation of Romania within a transnational system, in accordance with the European rules laid down in Regulation (EU) 2014/910 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market (eIDAS), as well as with the implementing regulations.” This article proves this requirement is met as it ensures its compliance in a legally binding manner. The new law shall take into account the once only principle embedded in the Single Digital

Gateway Regulation (EU) 2018/1724. Article 2(e) provides that one of the objectives of the interoperability law is to implement the once- only principle, as described in Regulation (EU) 2018/1724. Therefore, the law takes into account the once-only principle and itself ensures compliance with this principle in a legally binding manner. Furthermore, the justification and substantiating evidence provided by the Romanian authorities also cover the relevant constitutive elements in the description of the measure. The objective of this reform is to modernise the public administration by adopting advanced technologies and focusing on the citizens and businesses’ needs, while ensuring the prerequisites for data-driven policy development and increasing the interoperability of existing digital

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