Preliminary assessment of the fourth payment request of Romania

                                                   contractor completed the analysis phase and
                                                   prepared the technical documents needed to
                                                   design the IT system.
    14   Certificate of completion for each of the These documents confirm the official
         33 public institutions, signed by installation and activation of the ASIGNO
         contractor and the competent authority back-office functionalities for each of the 33
         (Romanian Digitalisation Authority).      institutions, as based on Contract No.
                                                   22/19.03.2024.

3. Analysis:

The justification and substantiating evidence provided by the Romanian authorities cover all constitutive elements of the target.

At least 30 public institutions connected to and using the Government Cloud with the possibility for them to exchange data with each other through the Government Cloud infrastructure. Following the signature of contract to implement the Government Cloud (milestone 153, positively assessed in the context of the second payment request), the Romanian authorities continued with the procurement and related services contracts to set-up the Government Cloud. The respective contracts were signed on 9 September 2024 and 19 March 2024 respectively (see Evidence Nos. 8, 9 and 10). Certificates of completion (see Evidence Nos. 11, 12 and 13) confirm the reception and installation of the ICT equipment, licences and software solutions for the Government Cloud.

The physical infrastructure complemented the already existing legal and governance framework of the Government Cloud as set up by Government Emergency Ordinance No. 89/2022 (published in the Official Journal No. 638 on 28 June 2022, Evidence No. 2). A governance guide defines the establishment and administration of the governance system, including the roles of the different authorities involved (in particular the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation, the Authority for the Digitalisation of Romania, and the Special Telecommunications Service). In addition, Government Decision No. 112/2023 (published in the Official Journal No. 118 on 10 February 2023) establishes the technical, procedural and operational rules of the Government Cloud, complementing the governance guide.

Furthermore, Law No. 242 of 20 July 2022 (published in the Official Journal No. 752 on 27 July 2022, and according to the provisions in the Article 12(1) of Law No. 24/2000 on legislative technique rules for drafting legal acts, Law No. 242/2022 entered into force three days after its publication in the Official Journal) establishes the National Interoperability Platform, which enables automatic data exchange between information systems of central and local public authorities and institutions. Article 9 (9) stipulates that the National Interoperability Platform operates on the Government Cloud infrastructure.

According to the evidence provided, Romania demonstrated that 33 public institutions are connected to and use the Government Cloud, with the possibility for them to exchange data through its infrastructure. The evidence provided concern the provision of documentation showing the creation of the accounts in PDURo, the export log showing the usage of PDURo by the institutions, the list of the institutions which participated to the trainings and the certificates of completion of the 33 institutions proving they are able to use the Government Cloud and the PDURo, for exchanging data with each other. Therefore, the goal of target 154 has been exceeded by 3 public institutions.

Specifically, public institutions are connected to and use the Government Cloud through the Romanian Single Digital Portal (PDURo), which is a software running on the Government Cloud

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