Section 2, Article 5 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1463

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Article 5Data service directory#

1.Without prejudice to Article 8 of this Regulation, Member States shall ensure that all evidence providers and evidence types issued by them that are relevant for the online procedures referred to in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 are registered in the data service directory.

2.The Commission shall be responsible for the development and maintenance of interfaces allowing national coordinators referred to in Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724, competent authorities, intermediary platforms where applicable, and the Commission, each within the scope of their responsibilities and the limits of the access rights defined by the Commission, to:

(a)register, de-register and carry out any other updates of information contained in the data service directory;

(b)manage the access rights of persons who are authorised to make registrations and changes to the registered data.

The Commission shall ensure that national coordinators, competent authorities and intermediary platforms can choose between graphical user interfaces for authorised persons and programmatic interfaces for automated uploads.

3.Member States shall ensure that each type of evidence registered in the data service directory is accompanied by:

(a)the level of assurance of the electronic identification means notified by Member States in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 910/2014; and

(b)where applicable, additional attributes, specified in order to facilitate the identification of the relevant evidence provider and that go beyond the mandatory attributes of the minimum data set laid down in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1501, exchanged using the electronic identification means notified in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 910/2014, required for its exchange through the OOTS.

4.The data service directory shall make a clear distinction between the additional attributes referred to in paragraph 3, point (b), of this Article and the attributes exchanged using the electronic identification means notified in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 referred to in Article 13(1), point (f), of this Regulation.

5.The level of assurance referred to in paragraph 3, point (a), required for cross-border users shall not exceed the level of assurance required for non-cross-border users.

6.Member States shall ensure that the information in the data service directory is kept up to date.

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data model
means an abstraction that organises elements of data, standardises how they relate to one another and specifies the entities, their attributes and the relationship between such entities;
data service
means a technical service through which an evidence provider handles the evidence requests and dispatches evidence;
data service directory
means a registry containing the list of evidence providers and the evidence types they issue together with the relevant accompanying information;
eDelivery Access Point
means a communication component that is part of the eDelivery electronic delivery service based on technical specifications and standards, including the AS4 messaging protocol and ancillary services developed under the Connecting Europe Facility Programme and continued under the Digital Europe Programme, to the extent that these technical specifications and standards overlap with the ISO 15000-2 standard;
eIDAS node
means a node as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1501 and complying with the technical and operational requirements laid down in and on the basis of that Regulation;
electronic identification means
means a material and/or immaterial unit, containing person identification data and which is used for authentication for an online service;
evidence broker
means a service allowing an evidence requester to determine which evidence type from another Member State satisfies the evidence requirement for the purposes of a national procedure;
evidence provider
means a competent authority as referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 that lawfully issues structured or unstructured evidence;
evidence requester
means a competent authority responsible for one or more of the procedures referred to in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724;
evidence type
means a category of structured or unstructured evidence with a common purpose or content;
incident
means a situation where the OOTS is not performing, fails to transmit the evidence or transmits evidence that has not been requested, or where the evidence has changed or been disclosed during the transmission, as well as any breach of security referred to in Article 29;
intermediary platform
means a technical solution acting in its own capacity or on behalf of other entities such as evidence providers or evidence requesters, depending on the administrative organisation of Member States in which the intermediary platform operates, and through which evidence providers or evidence requesters connect to the common services referred to in Article 4(1) or to evidence providers or evidence requesters from other Member States;
once-only technical system
(‘OOTS’) means the technical system for the cross-border automated exchange of evidence referred to in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724;
preview space
means a functionality that enables the user to preview the requested evidence as referred to in Article 15(1), point (b)(ii);
procedure portal
means a webpage or a mobile application where a user can access and complete an online procedure referred to in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724.
semantic repository
means a collection of semantic specifications, linked to the evidence broker and the data service directory, composed of definitions of names, data types and data elements associated with specific evidence types to ensure mutual understanding and cross-lingual interpretation for evidence providers, evidence requesters and users, when exchanging evidence through the OOTS;
structured evidence
means any evidence in electronic format required for the procedures listed in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 that is organised in predefined elements or fields that have a specific meaning and technical format allowing for processing by software systems, supplemented by the metadata elements of the OOTS generic metadata model referred to in Article 7(1) of this Regulation and either in compliance with the OOTS data model for the relevant evidence type as referred to in Article 7(2) of this Regulation, or accompanied by a human-readable version;
technical design documents
means a set of detailed and non-binding technical documents, drawn up by the Commission in cooperation with Member States in the framework of the gateway coordination group referred to in Article 29 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 or any sub-groups referred to in Article 19 of this Regulation, which includes but is not limited to, a high-level architecture, exchange protocols, standards and ancillary services that support the Commission, Member States, evidence providers, evidence requesters, intermediary platforms and other entities concerned in establishing the OOTS in compliance with this Regulation;
unstructured evidence
means evidence in electronic format required for the procedures listed in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 that is not organised in predefined elements or fields that have specific meaning and technical format, but is supplemented by the metadata elements of the OOTS generic metadata model referred to in Article 7(1) of this Regulation;