1. Member States shall ensure that evidence requesters are connected to an eIDAS-node to enable user authentication pursuant to Article 11, either directly or through an intermediary platform.
2. Member States shall ensure that eDelivery Access Points are installed, configured and integrated in the procedure portals of evidence requesters, in the data services of evidence providers and in intermediary platforms.
3. Member States may choose the number of eDelivery Access Points they use for the OOTS.
1. The Commission in cooperation with Member States shall establish the following services of the OOTS (‘common services’):
(a)
the data service directory referred to in Article 5;
(b)
the evidence broker referred to in Article 6;
(c)
the semantic repository referred to in Article 7.
2. Member States shall ensure the technical connection between the procedure portals of evidence requesters, directly or through intermediary platforms, with the common services and the proper registration of their data services in the common services. In implementing these connections, Member States shall be guided by the descriptions contained in the technical design documents.
3. Member States shall ensure that only evidence requesters are connected, directly or through intermediary platforms, to the common services and that only evidence requesters and evidence providers can use the OOTS. Member States shall check the functioning of the connections to the common services at regular intervals.
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.
1. The evidence broker shall allow evidence requesters to determine which evidence types issued in other Member States correspond to the evidence types required in the context of procedures for which that evidence requester is competent.
2. Member States shall, through the interface referred to in Article 5(2), complement the list of evidence types in the data service directory as referred to in Article 5(1) with the facts or compliance with procedural requirements they prove, possibly jointly with other evidence types, if needed. Member States shall ensure that this information is accurate and kept up to date.
3. The Commission shall be responsible for the development and maintenance of interfaces that allow national coordinators, 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)
add, change and update the information referred to in paragraph 2;
(b)
manage the access rights of persons who are authorised to make additions and changes to the registered information.
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.
4. The Commission shall facilitate the mapping of the evidence types issued in one Member State to facts or compliance with procedural requirements that have to be proved in a procedure in another Member State by structuring the discussion and organising the work in the relevant sub-group referred to in Article 19. The sub-group shall set out a formal domain-specific language, whenever possible referencing relevant international standards, and propose that language to the gateway coordination group in accordance with Article 18, point (f).
1. The semantic repository shall provide access to the OOTS generic metadata model, which is designed to display metadata that uniquely identify the evidence and the evidence provider and which includes additional fields designed to display the metadata referred to in Article 13(1), points (a), (b) and (c).
2. For the types of structured evidence agreed in the gateway coordination group, the semantic repository shall contain an OOTS data model consisting of at least the following components:
(a)
a representation of that data model with:
(i)
a visual data model diagram; and
(ii)
a textual description of all the entities of the data model, consisting of a definition and the list of the attributes of the entity; and, for each attribute, the expected type (e.g. Boolean, Identifier, Date), a definition, the cardinality and the optional usage of a code list;
(b)
distributions in XML based on XML schema definition (XSD), or an equivalent format, complemented by other widely used serialisation formats, where feasible;
(c)
code lists to ensure the automated processing of evidence, available in a structured format;
(d)
a mechanism for conversion into a human-readable format, such as XSLT or equivalent.
3. For each type of evidence, the semantic repository shall offer version control and a change log to keep track of different versions.
4. The semantic repository shall contain a methodology for developing new OOTS data models for evidence types exchanged through the OOTS, consisting of examples and learning materials.
5. Schedules for updates and adaptations to the OOTS generic metadata models and the OOTS data models shall be regularly discussed by Member States and the Commission in the framework of one of sub-groups of the gateway coordination group referred to in Article 19 and adopted by the gateway coordination group. The evidence providers or intermediary platforms, where applicable, shall apply those updates and adaptations at the latest 12 months after their publication in the semantic repository.
6. The Commission shall provide Member States with an IT tool which will help them to verify the compliance of the evidence with the OOTS generic metadata model and the OOTS data models.
7. The Commission shall make the semantic repository publicly available on a dedicated Commission website.
1. Member States that have national registries or services that are equivalent to the data service directory or evidence broker may choose not to register evidence providers, the types of evidence they issue and the facts or compliance with procedural requirements they prove, possibly jointly with other evidence types, and the level of assurance of the electronic identification means required to access each type of evidence as provided for in Articles 5 and 6. In such a case, they shall instead do one of the following:
(a)
allow other Member States to search their national registries for the information referred to under this paragraph;
(b)
copy the information referred to under this paragraph from the national registries or services to the data service directory or evidence broker.
2. When implementing paragraph 1, Member States shall be guided by the descriptions contained in the technical design documents.
