Administrative burdens stem from administrative activities that are solely due to a legal obligation. 

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Administrative simplifications means, where possible, to streamline and simplify their administrative processes by improving them or eliminating anything that does not provide public value. Administrative simplification can help businesses and citizens to reduce the administrative burden of complying with EU legislation or national obligations.

Alignment of digital policies assures that policymakers do not face gaps between future and existing policies which is necessary in order to regulate better open data, personal data, e-Identity, security and privacy, data and internet governance, web and ICT accessibility, digital connectivity infrastructure, and its take-up.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are software components that connect subsystems and actors in digital environments such as Digital Platforms or the European Data Spaces. They enable flexible data access, data sharing and the control and coordination of digital interactions happening through them.

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to systems that display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve specific goals. AI-based systems can be purely software-based, acting in the virtual world (e.g.