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Introducing the BRITE Integrated Project

Federico Dalpane

MTW, Federico DalpaneSCORE Workshop – Belgrade, 2008-10-16 European Commission

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Summary

1. Introducing the BRITE Project

2. BRITE’s objectives

3. Potential impact

4. Relevant FP6 projects

5. Project overview

6. Project management

7. The BRITE Consortium

8. The BRITE Concertation Board

9. Published deliverables


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INTRODUCING THE BRITE PROJECTBRITE at a glance; the origins of BRITE


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BRITE at a glance

Integrated Project co-financed by EC, Directorate General Information Society, FP6 IST Programme, eGovernment Actions

Mission: achieving technical, semantic, and organisational interoperability among the business registers of Europe

IST Priority 2.4.9 ICT Research for Innovative Government, Focus 3 “Adaptive and proactive eGovernment support systems”

Call 4 – closed 23 March 2005

Start: 1 March 2006

Duration: 36 months

Co-ordinator: Mr. Vito Giannella, EBR

22 partners from: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Norway, Spain, Sweden

Website: www.briteproject.eu


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The origins of BRITE

The European Business Register (EBR, www.ebr.org):

Started its operations in 1992 with a pilot project for accessing data of the BRs of four Member States

Now a technical platform among the BRs of 14 European countries

BRITE can be understood as an extension of EBR's services:

managing the interplay of national and European legislation

addressing cross-border and cross-domain interoperability issues


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OBJECTIVES

EU policies and legislation; cross-border business registration; scientific and technical objectives; relevance to IST Priority 2.4.9


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Background: EU policies and legislation

EU Directives are shaping the company landscape in the EU

The new domain of "EU Company Law" is emerging

EU initiatives also in related domains: Preventing financial crime Fighting money laundering Ensuring transparency of the financial market But...

Facilitating the fundamental value of free movement of companies and services


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Cross-border business registration

Cross-border and cross-domain interoperability is a clear requirement for BRs to be effective in Europe’s multinational, multilingual, multicultural environment

To be effective, each BR needs to be able to interact with all other European BRs

Collaboration among BRs to access each other’s data has been established since the early ‘90s through EBR, but

There is no ICT instrument yet to manage the interplay of trans-national laws and national laws in the implementation of European legislation

BRITE has set out to provide this instrument, that is needed to fulfill the BRs’s mission and comply with fundamental EU values and policies


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Scientific and technical objectives

BRITE pursues advanced research in knowledge modelling:

innovative use of ontologies to model traditional domain vocabularies administrative processes cross-border workflows event monitoring mechanisms

Resulting in an extension of semantic interoperability of eGovernment processes …

These new capabilities are being engineered into an ICT platform that exploits the domain and process ontologies to provide a powerful, semantically-enabled platform for intercommunication among the business registers and other entities connected to the network, providing in turn:

semantically-aware, high-value services to customers and other eGovernment actors

feedback to policy makers and service designers


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Relevance to IST Priority

IST-2004-2.4.9 - ICT Research for Innovative Government:

“To modernise and innovate public administrations at all levels, to foster good governance, to provide citizens and industries with new service offers, and thus create new public value. To contribute to easing mobility of European citizens within the Internal Market, making European Citizenship a reality, and supporting them as active citizens through innovative government services and through participation in decision making processes”.


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Relevance to IST Priority (2)

Focus 3, “Adaptive and proactive eGovernment support systems:

Research should address modelling of administrative processes using emerging ontology and semantic web languages.

It should include technologies to support the legislative and policy development process such as intelligent tools to develop policy scenarios and to manage administrative processes and content.

Research should respond to public service governance requirements such as process transparency, preservation of diversity, multi-level governance, multi-linguality as well as new services and new ways of service provision”.


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BRITE in line with Strategic Objective IST-2004-2.4.9 as it will contribute to:

eliminating administrative barriers to the freedom of establishment and of movement of companies

the advancement, development and adoption of adaptive and proactive e-Government support systems

instilling a proactive and positive attitude to change, innovation and service provision in public bodies

advancing the state of the art in the modelling of administrative processes using ontology and semantic web languages


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informing the EU legislative and policy planning/road-mapping process by producing monitoring data and indicators showing how changes in EU legislation impact crossborder/cross-domain administrative processes and public services (BRITE dashboard)

standards development both in the ICT domain and the Company Law domain

facilitating the transfer of e-Government R&D ICT and know-how between public bodies

tackling the challenges posed by automatic contents analysis, knowledge extraction and knowledge transfer in a multi-language, multi-cultural environment as the EU.


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POTENTIAL IMPACT

Potential impact on: EU policies; technical, semantic, organisational interoperability; standards


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EU policies

The EU Treaty, Title III (Free Movement of Persons, Services and Capital) recognises to EU companies the same freedom of establishment that is enjoyed by natural persons.

Several EU policies are directly linked to this basic principle

BRITE is an operational instrumentof these policies


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EU policies (2)

Directive 2003/58/EC, amending the 1st Company Law Directive: provisions on electronic filing of companies’ data in the Company Registers, and electronic signatures. From 2007 Business Registers must permit electronic filing and retrieval (already applied in several countries); a fundamental technical prerequisite for BRITE to work in cross border data/documents exchange.

1st Company Law Directive: protection of shareholders and third parties’ rights. BRITE addresses this requirement allowing full traceability of the companies that transfer their registered offices abroad.


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EU policies (3)

Council Regulation (EC) 2157/2001 on the Statute for a European Company (SE), art. 8: possibility for a SE to transfer its registered office to another Member State without the need to wind up the company or to create a new legal person.

Implies for Business Registers the need to exchange electronic company data and documents with legal value.

BRITE will allow inter-register dialogue and cross-border procedures integration.


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EU policies (4)

2003 EC Communication on "The Role of eGovernment for Europe's Future": "Pan-European services can give a substantial impetus to the Internal Market and its associated freedoms, as well as to European Citizenship, provided that there is inclusion of the needs of cross-border users, co-operation of Member States’ administrations, the provision of interoperable infrastructures, and provision of specific public services at the European level" - BRITE fully committed on this.

BRITE addresses the priorities of the area eGovernment of the Action Plan eEurope 2005 (An information society for all): interactive public services, interoperability of e-Gov services, secure communications between public services, pan-European e-Government services.


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EU policies (5) Company Law SLIM Working Group final

recommendations to the EC about the simplification of the 1st and 2nd directives: to develop more effective techniques of disclosure and achieve further simplification, with specific reference to cross-border establishment. BRITE will provide the essential infrastructure for the implementation of the required interoperable network, and encourage further legislative developments.

The recommendations to the EC of the 3rd eEurope eGovernment subgroup meeting ("Modern and Innovative Public Administrations in the 2010 horizon", known as CoBrA recommendations, Amsterdam, Sept. 2004) address the issue of cross-border company registration as an example of commitment to concrete agenda for pan-European services, interoperability, identification and authentication.


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EU policies (6)

BRITE Service Case 3 Support for eProcurement Take-up contributes to recent "Action plan for the implementation of the legal framework for electronic public procurement" that reduces the regulatory burden for businesses and contributes to the achievement of greater efficiency of public procurement and competitiveness in EU.

Service Case 4 Support for Cross-Domain Interoperability contributes to EU efforts against money laundering and financial crime, for transparency of the financial market and for the prudential supervision of financial institutions, all among current priorities of DG Internal Market.


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EU policies (7)

Action Programme to cut administrative burdens in the EU by 2012

Recommendations from the EC indicate BRITE as possible way to simplify European Company Law

Results from open consultation confirm the EC recommendations

Communication from the Commission on a simplified business environment for companies in the areas of company law, accounting and auditing, Brussels, 10.7.2007, COM(2007) 394 final:

"The existence of electronic registers all over Europe makes it possible for registers to communicate with each other. The BRITE project aims at allowing European citizens and companies to reap the full benefits of this technology. The Commission will continue to encourage this work in order to pave the way for a future review of the Eleventh Directive that would allow reducing the administrative burdens related to the establishment of a branch in another Member State".


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Technical, semantic, organisational interoperability

BRITE’s goal: technical, semantic, and organisational interoperability among the business registers of Europe (IDABC paper "European Interoperability Framework for Pan-European eGovernment Services").

Organisational interoperability: BRITE eGovernment service cases

Technical and semantic interoperability: innovations in process-embedded knowledge capture and delivery. New ontology-driven business process modelling techniques to build ontology-based workflows to support complex and knowledge-intensive register processes.

BRITE Dashboard for knowledge extraction from communication patterns among registers: feedback to policymakers on effects of current legislation and input for policy development.


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Standards

Besides adopting the most important technical standards (data transmission, security...), BRITE has the opportunity to influence developments in relevant emerging areas esp. for knowledge representation:

Data standardisation:

Several BRITE partners key players in the development of data representation standards, such as crXML (Commerce Registers XML, www.crxml.org). Work continuing in BRITE with the prospect of arriving at a pan-European standard.

Process standardisation:

BRITE is interested in the debate and has the potential to make significant impact. E.g. standardisation of process execution or choreography via web services (BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and W3C Web Service Choreography).


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RELEVANT FP6 PROJECTSBRITE in context


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Relevant FP6 projects

SemanticGov: Providing Integrated Public Services to Citizens at the National and Pan-European level with the use of Emerging Semantic Web Technologies (FP6-2004-IST-4): building the infrastructure (software, models, services, etc.) for offering of semantic web services by public administration (PA). Main goals:

achieving interoperability amongst PA agencies both within a country as well as amongst countries

easing the discovery of PA services by its customers

facilitating the execution of complex services often involving multiple PA agencies in interworkflows

proposing total reengineering of PA service provision by capitalizing on the Service Oriented Architectures paradigm, implemented through Semantic Web Services technology and supported by PA domain analysis and modelling


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Relevant FP6 projects (2)

AIDA - Advanced Interactive Digital Administrations. Demonstrate the feasibility of using edocuments, defined as machine readable data structures, for authentic and legal electronic documents. Relevance to electronic forms aspects of BRITE.

COSPA - Consortium for Open Source in the Public Administration. Use of various OSS solutions, which tests and measures the benefits in public administrations in terms of office-level productivity and financial indicators. Reference for OSS issues in eGovernment projects.

DECOR - Delivery of Context-sensitive Organisational Knowledge. Attempts to develop integrated methods and tools for active, context-sensitive and self-adaptive delivery and organisational knowledge at the process level. Knowledge processing reference.

EBR-ON - European Business Register - Open Network. EBR-ON aims to upgrade the technical infrastructure (Core technology) of the existing European Business Register; to release new user services; to setup a different marketing strategy; to enlarge the network as to include new Countries. Clear and direct relevance to BRITE.


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eEPOCH - eEurope Smart Card Charter proof of concept and holistic solution. Will demonstrate a scalable pan-European environment for legally binding and secure internet based e-transactions using national electronic ID cards in the domain of local and cross-border e-Goverment application services. Security and authentication issues, crossborder issues relevant to BRITE.

EGOV - An integrated Platform for Realising Online One-Stop Government. One-stop government refers to the integration of public services from a citizen’s point of view. BRITE consortium partners are active in this project.

E-POWER - European Programme for an Ontology based Work Environment for Regulations and legislation. Developed method and supporting tools to translate legislation and other regulations into executable (formal) specifications. Strong relevance to ontology-related work in BRITE.

EUCLID - European initiative for a Citizen digital ID solution. EUCLID aims at supporting the collaborative action initiated in the eEurope Smart Card Charter Trailblazer 1 (TB1) Public Identity. Relevance to issues in BRITE concerning security, etc.


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FLOSSPOLS - Free/libre and open source software: policy support. Study on the emergence, use and development methods of eGovernment Open Source Solutions and their gender implications on the research community. Reference project for open source in eGovernment.

ICTE-PAN - Methodologies and Tools for Building Intelligent Collaboration and Transaction Environments in Public Administration Networks. Aims to develop innovative methodology for modelling PA operations and tools for transforming these models into design specifications for e-Government environments automating and simulating complex bureaucratic processes. Relevant to BP modelling issues in BRITE.

INTELCITIES - Intelligent cities. Open source interoperable platform for cross-border public services to exchange data. Clear relevance to cross-border interoperability issues in BRITE.

KIWI - Building Innovative Knowledge Management Infrastructures Within European Public Administrations. Aimes at developing innovative knowledge management infrastructures able to transform PAs at any level inside Europe into knowledge driven and dynamically adaptive learning organisations and empower public employees to be fully knowledge workers. Clear and strong link to knowledge management issues in BRITE.


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ONTOGOV - Ontology-enabled e-gov service configuration. Methodology and software for a flexible re-design of the PA's online services. Strong relevance to ontology related issues in BRITE.

QUALEG - Quality of Service and Legitimacy in eGovernment. Aims at enabling Local Governments to manage their policies in a transparent and trustable way. Includes activities of introducing semantics in web services and workflows at local level. Ontology-based support for multilingual eGov applications. Clear relevance to similar activities in BRITE.

TERREGOV - Impact of eGovernment on territorial government services. Technology to enable automatic access to complementary services from different administrations in order to get the complete service at once. Particularly relevant to the issue in BRITE of how to define complete service workflows spanning several institutions.

Other relevant projects include CB-BUSINESS, CENTURi21, E-FORUM, eMUNIS, EURO-CITI, IMPULSE, INFOCITIZEN, REGIONAL-IST, PEPPOL…


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PROJECT OVERVIEWBRITE’s objectives; service cases


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BRITE’s objectives

In order to reach its overall goals, BRITE pursues:

1. Objective 1: Enable semantic and technical interoperability

Core Technology R&D: activities needed to implement the Brite Platform

2. Objective 2: Enable organisational and service interoperability

e-Government services: a set of pilot services built on the Brite Platform to validate technical & organisational interoperability

3. Objective 3: Enable effective deployment & sustainability of the Brite Platform and of the service case interoperability prototypes

Management & Exploitation: management, concertation, training, dissemination and exploitation


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eGovernment service cases

1. Transfer of Registered Office: enabling cross-border interoperability of BRs throughout Europe to implement recent and forthcoming legislation. Will be implemented in Sweden, Norway, and Ireland.

2. Enforcement and Simplification of the 11th Directive: enabling coordinated enforcement of cross-border branch-related legislation and implementation of initiatives for the simplification of legislation. Will be implemented in Ireland, Italy, and Sweden.

3. Support for eProcurement Take-up: enabling BRs to interoperate with entities in other domains to facilitate the implementation of an important priority of the Lisbon Action Plan. Will be implemented in Italy, Spain, and Sweden.

4. Support for Cross-Domain Interoperability: enabling BRs to interoperate with governmental and non-governmental entities. Will be implemented in Spain, Italy, and Ireland.


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SC1: Transfer of Registered Office

Objective: Enabling cross-border interoperability among BRs throughout Europe when it comes to Transfer of Registered Office and Cross-border merger, providing services to:

Business Registers: Semantic and technical interoperability to enable faster and more efficient interaction among BRs

Other stakeholders (creditors, shareholders): will benefit from improved transparency and traceability

Public authorities, supervisory authorities: will benefit from service when seeking certain information on a company (history, business activity, ...)

Companies’ management, administration: service contributes to reducing administrative burden


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SC1: Transfer of Registered Office (2)

Use cases with highest priority as an example:

1. Enabling the new BR to get information as described in Art. 8.8 of SE-Statute: confirming that all formalities necessary for the transfer of registered office have been completed

2. Enabling the new BR to become aware of relevant events on the old BR (e.g. Procedures for winding up, liquidation, insolvency or suspension of payments, or other) related to the SE that wants to transfer its registered office (SE-Statute, Art. 8.15)

3. Enabling the new BR to notify the old BR in compliance with Art. 8.11 of the SE-Statute about the registration of a transfer of registered office

4. Allowing the public to link through the search to the old BR of a SE or new BR of a SE

5. Enabling any register to integrate all these facilities into a process such as the registration of the transfer of registered office/deletion of a SE

6. Enabling the new BR to allow the SE that asks for the transfer to retrieve automatically from the old BR all the necessary documentation


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SC2: Enforcement and Simplification of the 11th Directive

Objective: Implement prototype service supporting the enforcement and simplification of the 11th Directive on the registration of branches (89/666/EC, 1989).

Involves the enabling of cross-border communication between BRs such that any significant change in the status of a company in its home BR is automatically communicated to host BR.

The Working Group on Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market's (SLIM) recommendations (1999) presented too difficult a challenge to BRs and supervisory authorities:

Thus far the Commission has not felt it possible to bring forward proposals for amendment.

In particular, the Working Group suggested the implementation of a home state”principle: no additional filing requirements in the host state in case of crossborder establishments within the EU.

SC 2 aims at implementing automated semantic-enabled support for this SLIM recommendation

In addition: dealing with issues of translation; issues of certificate authentication.


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SC3: Support for eProcurement Take-up

Users: both procurers and tenderers

Supporting eTendering through:

Faster preparation of evidences while answering a call

Faster access to evidences while evaluating a bid or monitoring active contractors

Reliable evidences from qualified sources

Adopting XBRL as core standard for financial data import

Reducing language barriers

Strategy:

Focus on a Common Business Dossier as the qualified informative package, w. cross-border legal value, about a business entity

Support the tenderers to create and check their informative packages

Support the procurers to check and acquire data about the tenderers

Allow large reuse of information already submitted to PA


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SC4: Support for Cross-Domain Interoperability

Potential for providing cross-border support for:

Prevention of financial crime

Transparency for regulated markets

Prevention of money-laundering

Prudential supervision of financial institutions

Project decided to concentrate on anti-money-laundering


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SC4: Support for Cross-Domain Interoperability (2)

Process: User (e.g. FIU) asks national BR for information BR decides if information from other countries is needed Via a safe connection to BRITE, BR defines the query and the countries

involved BRITE establishes connection to selected countries Countries retrieve information to BRITE BRITE retrieves information to national BR National BR transfers information to user

Very ambitious work due to: Large number of players to coordinate Different ways of collecting and registering information Different national legislations Different organisational settings for national FIUs


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PROJECT MANAGEMENTManagement roles; Consortium Agreement


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Management roles

BRITE Project Co-ordinator (EBR):

Overall coordination and primary interface with the Commission

Strategy and impact coordination

Liaison with other EC Directorates and international organisations

Negotiations with external entities

Overseeing of gender equality in the project

Supervision of quality management

Reporting and workplan management


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Management roles (2)

Technical Director (InfoCamere):

Coordination at consortium level of technical and scientific activities of the project

Quality control to ensure high standards of excellence Technical reporting and contributions to Workplan

management

Administrative and Financial Director (EBR):

Financial management Financial guidelines for each of the participants Preparation of cost statements Web tools for archiving and to assist automatic

generation of management material Management of bank guarantees for SMEs


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Consortium Agreement

The Consortium Agreement defines:

Management procedures

Structure of project activities, reporting mechanisms, obligations, controls, penalties

Rules for distribution of EC funding

Rules for partners joining and leaving the consortium

Competitive calls to find new participants for inclusion in the project when necessary, and the funding to be assigned to them

Definition of rights and obligations regarding IPR management and access, including patent searches, filing for patents etc.

Management of knowledge generated by the project, rules for knowledge transfer


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THE BRITE CONSORTIUMThe BRITE Partners


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The BRITE Partners

Essential for the success of IPs, a critical mass of actors from each of the key sectors addressed - research, industry, and government must be mobilized.

Business Registers: European Business Register EEIG (BE) Bolagsverket (SE) Brønnøysundregistrene (NO) Companies Registration Office (IE) Colegio de Registradores (ES) Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (DK) Chamber of Commerce of Venice (IT) Justizministerium des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (DE) Centralen Registar na Republika Makedonija (MK) Chamber of Commerce of Milan (IT)


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The BRITE Partners (2) Technical partners of the BRs:

Enterprise Registry Solutions (IE) TB-Solutions (ES) InfoCamere (IT) SIA Lursoft IT (LV)

Research and technological partners: German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DE) U. of Koblenz-Landau (DE) Metaware S.p.A. (IT) Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd. (IE) Knowledge Discovery and Delivery Lab, U. of Pisa (IT) Software AG (DE)

Intl research institutions in the areas of financial regulation, company law and corporate governance: Financial Law Institute, U. of Ghent (BE) European Corporate Governance Institute (NL)


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THE BRITE CONCERTATION BOARDThe Business Registers in BRITE


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The BRITE Concertation Board

Participative, community aspect of BRITE

Composed mainly of Business Registers from across Europe and beyond

Provides assistance in validating the BRITE approach

Representatives from about 30 jurisdictions across Europe and beyond

General meetings: Venice, 21 September 2006 Dublin, 22 March 2007 Rome, 17 April 2008


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Published deliverables

Available on the BRITE website on:

http://www.briteproject.eu

D3.1.1 Domain analysis and architecture requirements, June 2006

D2.2.1 Transfer of registered office: Service and procedures specification, July 2006

D2.3.1 Enforcement and simplification of the 11th Directive: Requirements and procedures specifications, July 2006

D3.3.1 Business process ontology semantics, Dec. 2006

D1.1.5 Progress on concertation, Feb. 2007

D2.4.1 eProcurement take-up service specifications, Feb. 2007


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Hvala vam na pažnji

Federico Dalpane

Metaware S.p.A.

[email protected]

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