Preliminary assessment of the fourth payment request of Romania

Number and name of the Target: RO-C[C7]-I[I1.0]-T[154] Public institutions connected through the government cloud

Related measure: RO-C[C7]-I[I1.0] Deployment of the Government Cloud Infrastructure

Quantitative Indicator: Number

Target: 30

Time: Q4 2024

1. Context:

Target 154 is part of investment C7.I1, which has the objective to deploy the Government Cloud infrastructure, using secure and energy-efficient technologies to ensure the safe, interoperable and standard character of the public data.

Target 154 is related to the connection of public institutions to the Government Cloud and its use.

Target 154 is the second target of the investment, and it follows the completion of milestone 153 related to the signature of the contract for the implementation of Government Cloud infrastructure. It will be followed by target 155 concerning the operationalisation of two Tier III and two Tier IV data centres.

2. Evidence provided:

                  Name of the evidence                                  Short description
    1    Cover note                                     Summary document duly justifying how the
                                                        target (including all the constitutive elements)
                                                        has been satisfactorily fulfilled.
    2    Copy of the Emergency Ordinance No.            It concerns measures for adopting the
         89/2022, published in the Official Journal     governance system for the Government Cloud
         No. 638 on 28 June 2022 (Ordonanță de          Platform and establishes the legal framework
         urgență nr. 89/2022 privind înființarea,       for the organisation and operation of IT
         administrarea          și        dezvoltarea   infrastructures and cloud services within the
         infrastructurilor și serviciilor informatice   digital transformation process.
         de tip cloud utilizate de autoritățile și
         instituțiile publice)

    3    Copy of the Government decision No.            It approves the governance guide of the
         112/2023, published in the Official            Governmental Cloud platform, which explains
         Journal No. 118 of 10 February 2023, Part      how governance rules will be applied in
         I (Hotărâre privind aprobarea Ghidului de      practice.
         guvernanță a platformei de cloud
         guvernamental).
    4    Copy of Law No. 242 of 20 July 2022,           It sets up provisions regulating data exchange
         published in the Official Journal No. 752      between information systems and the
         on 28 July 2022 (Lege privind schimbul de      creation of National interoperability platform.
         date între sisteme informatice și crearea
         Platformei            naționale           de
         interoperabilitate).

    5    List of the 72 public institutions and         The list contains names and usernames of the
         related accounts created in PDURo,             public institutions for which the Cloud

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