Up-Access reinforces the digital single market implementing systems for guaranteeing the securing exchange of documents among public administrations and providers
The University Research Institute on Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC) from the University of València coordinates the project Up-Access whose aim is improving the security, the reliability and the fluid of electronic transactions in the European Union for Public Administrations, business and citizens.
In the Up-Access project participate four PEPPOL Access Points (Pan European Public Procurement Online) from Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain and German. PEPPOL system allows users and institutions to connect to a single eDelivery network. This network allows a trusted exchange of messages.
European Union is committed with the digital management of communications among public administrations and providers. This step forward into the eProcurement includes not only using digital invoices but also digitalising another kind of messages.
What is eDelivery
eDelivery works as a collection of nodes that follow the same rules of communication. Therefore, they can exchange messages. Although there are a series of “traditional” exchange messages such as email, this does not guarantee a secure exchange system. In addition, traditional emails are not usually encrypted, so the confidentiality of messages can be endangered.
Therefore, eDelivery system of exchanging messages guarantees security in the reception of messages, the identity of the sender and the receiver and the confidentiality of the content. In addition, the system is also able to offer legal proofs of the sending process.
PEPPOL Consortium has been work on improving its security. For this reason, their solutions have migrated from the AS2 protocol to the AS4 protocol, updating its SMP(Service Metadata Publishers).
Connecting Europe Facility in Telecom
The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) in Telecom is a key EU instrument to facilitate cross-border interaction between public administrations, businesses and citizens, by deploying digital service infrastructures (DSIs) and broadband networks. Supported projects will contribute to the creation of a European ecosystem of interoperable and interconnected digital services that sustain the Digital Single Market.
