On 11 March 2026 the Portal team held the webinar “Building interoperable public services: CAMSS and eu-LISA projects overview”. The session hosted speakers Catalin Moruju, Romina Fernandez Soto and Mario Bravo from the Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications (CAMSS), and Miglena Vucheva from eu-LISA / e-CODEX. The event helped participants learn more about these initiatives and how they contribute in building interoperable public services.
The webinar’s agenda was the following:
- Introduction
- Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications (CAMSS)
- eu-LISA & e-CODEX
- Q&A
- Closing remarks
CAMSS - Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications
The first part of the webinar focused on the CAMSS initiative, a widely adopted method developed by the European Commission to help administrations assess, select and justify standards and specification. The speakers talked about its necessity for cross-border service communication and in the creation of compliant public services. CAMSS provides a range of solutions including assessment tools, support services and core vocabularies. Below are the key points that were tackled.
- Assessments: The CAMSS Assessment EIF Scenario is used to evaluate the compliance of standards and specifications among legal, semantic, and technical aspects. The speakers also introduced CAMSS-as-a-Service (CAMSSaaS), a service that provides free-of-charge support services, assisting public administrations, standardisation organisations, and other stakeholders in performing compliance assessments, through a request and evaluation process.
- EIRA Library of Interoperability Specifications - ELIS: A space containing over 100 assessments carried out over the years in machine-readable RDF format.
- ELIS Management Tool: An upcoming tool designed to ease the management of ELIS and the CAMSS Assessment and Specifications graphs, by automating quality control and making specifications more discoverable for institutions and individuals alike.
eu-LISA & e-CODEX
The second session focused on eu-LISA & e-CODEX. A decentralised and open-source system used by 27 EU Member States for the secure exchange of judicial data and managed by the EU Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA). The key aspects highlighted during the presentation were:
- e-CODEX history: e-CODEX started as a pilot in 2010 with the need to resolve cross-border disputes that were complicated because of different legal procedures, protocols and languages. In 2022 the e-CODEX regulation was adopted, and eu-LISA was formally handed over the project.
- eu-LISA’s role: eu-LISA is responsible for the maintenance and development of the system’s components, whereas the Commission’s DG DIGIT is responsible for the gateway component.
- Technical architecture: e-CODEX is provided as an open-source software for implementation on national infrastructure. The e-CODEX Access Point consists of the DOMIBUS gateway and e-CODEX Connector. The presentation also delved into the "Four-Corner Model," explaining how these two components ensure seamless communication between diverse national IT systems.
- EU Justice Core Vocabulary: It acts as a driver of semantic interoperability, composed of reusable building blocks and ensures that data exchanged across borders maintains its precise meaning.
- Future use cases: Two new use cases that have been undertaken in the last year were introduced; "Taking of Evidence" and "Service of Documents”. Moreover, beyond its current applications in civil and criminal matters, the system is flexible and content-agnostic and therefore can be used as a tool to support any procedure.
Feedback session
Throughout the session, participants asked various questions which were addressed by the speakers and Portal team:
Yes, the slides and video will be shared in a highlights news item to be published on the Portal.
Through the request form, we always confirm with you the purpose and expectation of the assessment. So, this includes any procurement related evaluation of the candidate specification, so we can do the mapping between the existing systems or frameworks you are interested in applying to with this specification. This will be considered and reviewed with you to ensure correct alignment.
There was a list of use cases presented in the slides, and there are others in the pipeline. Once they have passed the legislative procedure, they are going to be established and also published as an open source, so that the business process model, operational collaboration and schema can be seen. The core vocabulary is also published publicly.
All software is built in Europe, except for the gateway. However, as it is based on an open international standard, there are some 30 other products on the market that can be used. So that can also be non-European software. The connector, the gateway and all of the configuration specifications are made either by DIGIT or by eu-LISA and then run inside the Ministries of Justice, the notaries, the lawyers’ associations of Europe, so there's no non-EU service provider involved here – it's a hundred percent European-based.
We have a cybersecurity recommendation and a policy. We also have an interoperability approach saying that as all the software runs inside the national domains, their policies would apply and we're seeking to find common ground there. So, the exchange is done over the internet, but with sufficient cryptographic insurances applied there, of course. This is also where the DOMIBUS gateway and other gateway products help us.
Regarding the e-CODEX components it will have no impact because, there are no services hosted there. But indeed, there would be some impact if it is hosted on a cloud service, or if a dependency is on a cloud service, which would be a national choice and not something enforced by e-CODEX. So, for the transport layer, if you have, dependencies there, we have no view over that. However, from the e-CODEX perspective, there is no dependency with the US.
Note: Questions and answers have been slightly edited for clarity.
Closing remarks
The Portal team also promoted upcoming events and encouraged participants to register and join future sessions.
If you were unable to attend – or would like to revisit the key insights – check out the presentation slides attached below. For additional details, you can visit the CAMSS and e-CODEX pages available on the Portal.
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