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"Mr President, the report on e-government by Mrs Ţicău is very important and timely and rightly places e-government in the context of a digital agenda and the 2020 strategy.
We agree that e-government is a window of opportunity to modernise and simplify the public sector and make it more cost-efficient as well as user-friendly. Mrs Ţicău, you rightly underline in your report the strength of the ICT sector in Europe, which contributes, as mentioned, 5% of GDP of the European Union market value of EUR 660 billion. It also contributes 50% of overall productivity growth, which is also important.
We can therefore imagine the potential of this digital market if it could be completely free of barriers. At the moment, both citizens and businesses face many barriers when accessing public services online in another country. This is mainly the responsibility of the Member States. However, in order to enhance the action plan by 2015, the Commission will table a pan-European framework for electronic identification, authentication and signatures at the level of European cooperation by June 2012. This will, firstly, address the issue of interoperability and usability and, secondly, remove the barriers. It will also to address the new requirements: new trusted services and the mutual recognition of and acceptance of electronic identification and signatures.
We take note of – and, what is more, we support – your efforts to make e-invoicing predominant in Europe by 2020. However, we should take account of the requirements of small and medium-sized enterprises within the consistent regulatory framework. We also take note of your ambitious call to the Member States to make e-invoicing mandatory in public procurement by 2016.
Last but not least, funding is needed for the future in the areas of electronic identification, e-procurement, e-justice and e-health, and it should be provided primarily by the Connecting Europe Facility. In order to achieve all this, we need cooperation. The goal is a modern, user-friendly digital single market in Europe."@en1
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