Digital-ready Policymaking glossary

Citizens and businesses must be confident that when they interact with public authorities they are doing so in a secure and trustworthy environment and in full compliance with relevant regulations, e.g. the Regulation and Directive on data protection, and the Regulation on electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS). Public administrations must also guarantee the citizens’…

Simplification of the reporting process for businesses, such as SMEs, so that they only have to report information once (“once-only” principle)

when possible. This simplification may be understood, for example, in terms of synchronising regulatory requirements, such as aligning the content of fields in different regulations that have the same meaning; and in terms of regulatory entities,…