interoperability

  • Study on the potential impacts of a future EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement

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    The European Union (EU) and Singapore are currently negotiating a new EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement (EUSDTA). The EUSDTA builds on several existing trade arrangements between the EU and Singapore, including a bilateral free trade agreement, the investment protection agreement, which is pending ratification, and a negotiated set of digital trade principles. Negotiations for the EUSDTA… Read more

  • Legal Framework for Digital Development and Transformation in Selected Industries

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    In recent years, the development and widening application of emerging digital technology – e.g. Web 3.0 technology (including distributed ledger technology (“DLT”)), Internet of Things (“IoT”), artificial intelligence (“AI”) and automation – have transformed ways through which economic activities are conducted, leading to the emergence of a “digital economy”. Specifically, Web 3.0 technology may disrupt… Read more

  • Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024

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    Organizations make better choices when they understand the factors shaping the future. Since 2011, the Top 10 Emerging Technologies report has served as a vital source of strategic intelligence for professionals. Drawing on insights from scientists, researchers and futurists, the report identifies 10 technologies poised to significantly influence societies and economies within three to five… Read more

  • European Services Forum Position Paper on EU Future Trade Policy

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    Competitiveness concerns have returned to EU discourses. The warning signals concerning the EU’s economic underperformance are growing, notably from Germany, where the EU’s main economic engine for the European Union is slowing down. To add to these grim overall macroeconomic trends, there are also growing clouds on the trade horizon: war, geopolitical tensions, the Red… Read more

  • Use Case: Bhutan NDI (National Digital Identity) &ToIP Digital Trust Ecosystems

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    Bhutan NDI officially launched in 2023 and introduced Self-Sovereign Identity as a foundational element underpinning a national digital trust ecosystem which connects the government, individuals, and the private sector in their digital interactions. Bhutan NDI and the Trust Over IP Foundation launched the case study on Bhutan NDI’s Digital Trust Ecosystem at the Mobile Ecosystem… Read more

  • U.S-EU Joint Statement of the Trade and Technology Council

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    The sixth ministerial meeting of the Trade and Technology Council (“TTC”) took place in Leuven, Belgium, on 4 and 5 April 2024. It was co-chaired by European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, United States Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and… Read more

  • Working paper: Towards a European “Trade Services” Regulation

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    Within international trade, transferable documents allow to request delivery of goods and payment based on possession of the document. Yet, it has been difficult to reproduce the notion of possession, which has to do with control over tangible goods, in an electronic environment. In order to address that situation, the adoption in 2017 by the… Read more

  • EU-Japan Memorandum of Cooperation on Digital Identities and Trust services to implement Data Free Flow with Trust

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    This Memorandum of Cooperation describes how the Digital Agency of Japan and the European Commission intend to take collaborative actions on digital identity in order to facilitate Data Free Flow with Trust. The Memorandum should be implemented through a number of collaborative actions that will build shared commitment on digital identity initiatives and complement the… Read more

  • Financing the Future: a Strategic Banking Sector for a Competitive Europe

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    Recommendations of the European Banking Federation for the EU 2024-2029 term. The concluding legislature has been marked by a series of significant crises at both the international and European levels. Firstly, the global COVID-19 pandemic, then a war on the European continent resulting from the invasion of Ukraine. This conflict triggered an energy crisis, driving… Read more

  • Scaling the Use of Digital Identities in Trade

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    Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) are the global identity framework for cross-border trade and a foundation on which to deliver a cheaper, faster, simpler, more sustainable and secure trading system. LEIs provide the ability for companies and governments to have total transparency across the trade system: where the goods are, where they are coming from and… Read more