www.peppol.eu Building the PEPPOL community OpenPEPPOL Project Director André Hoddevik Agency for Public Management and egovernment (Difi)
Future of PEPPOL OpenPEPPOL AISBL (Under establishment) Non-profit international association under Belgium law Long term sustainability through user driven governance Continuation of legal agreement responsibilities Continued cooperation between MS and EU Short term plans: Further development and implementation of eprocurement building blocks and enhanced piloting in new Pilot A Basic Cross Sector Services (BCSS), ISA/DG DIGIT operations and maintenance of PEPPOL software components Medium term plans: Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Continued Standardisation CEN/other initiatives on eprocurement business process standardisation OASIS/other initiatives on edelivery/document Transport Infrastructure Page 2
The PEPPOL sustainability roadmap
Purpose of OpenPEPPOL (I) The purpose of OpenPEPPOL is to enable European businesses to easily deal electronically with any European public sector buyers in their procurement processes, thereby increasing opportunities for greater competition for government contracts and giving better value for tax payers money, to encourage new and innovative ICT services and to simplify access to larger markets for suppliers (especially small or medium sized enterprises). It will do this by: 1. Striving to set widely accepted technology standards and specifications (hereinafter referred to as PEPPOL-specifications ) for dealing electronically with any European public sector buyers in their procurement processes. 2. Providing the authoritative point of reference for networks of interoperable, PEPPOL-compliant infrastructure and the organisations that use it. Page 4
Purpose of OpenPEPPOL (II) 3. Ensuring the Long term sustainability of the PEPPOL-infrastructure networks and user communities. 4. Ensuring the Long term sustainability of the PEPPOL-interoperability specifications, building blocks and related artefacts. 5. Promoting and supporting the ever-wider use of the PEPPOL-interoperability specifications, building blocks and related artefacts. Business to business use of the PEPPOL-compliant infrastructure and use of PEPPOL-components in other areas than procurement is also recognised as important and will be encouraged by the Association. Use of these items outside of Europe should also be possible. Page 5
Membership criteria Membership of OpenPEPPOL is open to the following types of organisations: 1. Regional or other type of Authorities within the PEPPOL network (according to provisions the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure Agreements) 2. Service Metadata Publisher Providers (according to provisions of the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure Agreements) 3. Access Point Providers (according to provisions of the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure Agreements) 4. esignature Validation Service Providers (according to provisions of the Validation Infrastructure Agreements) 5. Pre-award Service Providers (according to provisions of Pre-award Infrastructure Agreements). 6. Other organizations which are relevant to the purposes of OpenPEPPOL as laid out in Article 4 of these Statutes. Page 6
OpenPEPPOL organisation The structure of OpenPEPPOL consists of the following units and bodies: The General Assembly The Coordinating Communities OpenPEPPOL Transport Infrastructure Coordinating Community OpenPEPPOL post-award Coordinating Community OpenPEPPOL esignature Coordinating Community OpenPEPPOL pre-award Coordinating Community The Managing Committee Page 7
OpenPEPPOL governance structure Secretary General elected by the General Assembly and chair of the Managing Committee Secretary General Operating Office The OpenPEPPOL Operating Office assists the Secretary General in executive tasks Coordinating Community elected leaders is part of the Managing Committee OpenPEPPOL Managing Committee Working groups OpenPEPPOL Members are also Members of at least one Coordinating Community Pre Award Coordinating Community E-signature Coordinating Community Post Award Coordinating Community Transport Infrastructure Coordinating Community Working groups Working groups Working groups Working groups OpenPEPPOL General Assembly General Assembly elects additional Managing Committee Members All OpenPEPPOL Members form the General Assembly...
Timeline Incorporation of OpenPEPPOL AISBL has been initiated Possibility to be a founding member by registering interest by 15 June...indicating: Category of Membership (Authority, Service provider, other relevant/interested organisation) Coordinating Community/ies of interest OpenPEPPOL will be operational from 1 September 2012 Taking over the responsibilities laid down in the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure Agreements and Validation Infrastructure Agreements Continuing work on PEPPOL specifications First General Assembly of all OpenPEPPOL Members planned autumn 2012 For further information, please contact us via openpeppol@peppol.no Page 9
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