Merge pull request 'adding news item on IEA' (#3522 ) from news20230624-IEA into master

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+  <title>Council to exclude relevant stakeholders from contributing to an Interoperable Europe</title>
+</head>
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+<body>
+
+<h1>Council to exclude relevant stakeholders from contributing to an Interoperable Europe</h1>
+
+<p> The current draft from the Council on the Interoperable Europe Act 
+is limiting the Interoperable Europe Board, and with this excluding 
+relevant stakeholders from contributing to a more interoperable and 
+innovative Europe.  There is also a lack of improved wording in the 
+area of monitoring and budgeting.</p>
+
+<figure>
+     <img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/67/b6/6254c3286c9ade71e1b1d6b3868c.jpg" 
+       alt="EU building with flags from the different EU countries"/>
+       </figure>
+
+<p> The Interoperable Europe Act is aiming to enhance cross-border 
+digital public services across the European Union. This proposal is 
+currently discussed in the European Parliament and the Council. Through 
+a Freedom of Information request, the FSFE caused access to the <a 
+href="https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8907-2023-INIT/en/pdf">latest 
+compromise text (.pdf) </a> of the Council. </p>
+
+<p>From this draft, it gets clear that the Council is seeking to limit 
+the overall participation in the Interoperable Europe Board by 
+hindering the possibility to include experts and other stakeholders 
+with observer status in such board.  This not only goes in the 
+completely opposite direction of our demand for more inclusion of 
+different stakeholders – <a 
+href="/news/2023/news-20230323-02.html">especially the Free Software 
+community</a> – but it also undermines the position of the Expert Group 
+on Interoperability of European Public Services. </p> 
+
+<p>This Expert Group consists exclusively of representatives of public 
+authorities and <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/core/api/front/expertGroupAddtitionalInfo/43164/download.pdf">they demanded 
+(.pdf)</a> back in 2021 to work <italic>“closely with different stakeholders. Some 
+of them “private partners; local entities (e.g involving regions, 
+municipalities), EU standardisation and other international 
+organistations (OECD, UN, international standardisation bodies, etc.) 
+as well as citizens’ representatives depending on the subjects to be 
+handled”</italic>. With the current proposal, none of these stakeholders could 
+even be invited to a board meeting nor be an observer, <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2022/0720/COM_COM(2022)0720_EN.pdf">
+as proposed by the European Commission (.pdf).</a></p> 
+
+<p>The European Parliament would also not be part of the Interoperable 
+Europe Board, which the Parliament's rapporteur, Ivars Ijabs -Renew 
+Europe member- understandably changes in <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/ITRE-PR-745497_EN.pdf 
+.pdf">his draft report (.pdf) by suggesting to give the Institution a 
+seat</a>. Members of the European Parliament, like Jordi Solé on behalf 
+of the Verts/ALE Group, also call for the inclusion of Free Software 
+communities, which is mostly  in line with <a 
+href="/news/2023/news-20230323-02.html">our demands.</a> 
+</p>
+
+<p>Furthermore, the Council has failed in defining Open Standards, 
+while doing very little to improve the way monitoring will be carried 
+out after such legislation comes into force. The Council has also not 
+taken note of the need for a proper budget allocation that will assist 
+public administrations in executing the activities that will follow 
+with this Act. At least a definition of ‘Open Source licence’ includes 
+the four freedoms has been introduced [Art. 2 (8b)].This underlines the 
+strong link between Free Software and interoprability. </p>
+
+<p> As the European Parliament will agree on its draft position on the 
+Interoperable Europe Act in the coming weeks, we urge EU lawmakers to 
+address this matter by improving the Commission’s proposal, in order to 
+ensure a robust and inclusive governance structure in which different 
+stakeholders, including the Free Software community, can be part of the 
+Interoperable Europe Board. A proper monitoring workflow and evaluation 
+together with a dedicated budget are also very much needed to move 
+forward. Right now, Europe has the chance to pave the way for a 
+legislation that allows efficient, innovative cross-border 
+administration by recognising the crucial role that Free Software and 
+its community play in interoperability. </p> 
+
+</body>
+	
+<tags>
+	 <tag key="front-page"/>
+	 <tag key="european-parliament">European Parliament</tag>
+	 <tag key="policy">European Public Policy</tag>
+	 <tag key="european-union">European Union</tag>
+	</tags>
+
+
+<discussion href="https://community.fsfe.org/t/1043"/>  
+<image url="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/67/b6/6254c3286c9ade71e1b1d6b3868c.jpg" 
+       alt="EU building with flags from the different EU countries"/>
+
+</html>
+
+ 
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