The Spanish Government has delayed, until October 2, 2020, the entry into force of the obligation of full implementation of the obligations of electronic administration approved in Law 39/2015, of the common administrative procedure of the public administrations.
El Royal Decree-Law 11/2018, of 31 August published in the BOE of September 4 modifies the seventh final provision of Law 39/2015, extending until October 2, 2020 the application of its forecasts on the electronic registration of powers, electronic registration, registration of qualified public employees, electronic general access point (PAGE) and single electronic archive. This modification establishes a moratorium of 2 years for its implantations.
According to the reason of the RDL 11/2018, the moratorium has been established for:
- the technical-organizational inability to comply with the provisions of Law 39/2015 within the period initially set (October 2, 2018).
- because the regulatory development that requires the operation of some technical and procedural aspects in the different areas mentioned, must be adapted to the judgment of the Constitutional Court 55/2018, of May 24.
In this sense, RDL 11/2018 considers it necessary to agree in advance between the different Public Administrations the options that allow true interoperability with respect to their respective areas of competence. It is said that this agreement should be the framework for later designing technological systems that support interoperable functional aspects.
In short, the extension of the term seeks a coordinated action in the legal, organizational, procedural, technical and competence, in the implementation of the different electronic registers, the PAGE and the electronic single file.
The AOC currently allows the public bodies of Catalonia to comply with most of the obligations now delayed in their application. Specifically:
- The service EACAT Procedures is already integrated with the SIR (Registry Interconnection System) and allows compliance with interoperability obligations in the field of electronic registration. For 15 years theEACAT Tràmits allows Catalan entities to carry out inter-administrative transmissions within Catalonia. With the integration with SIR, transmissions can now also be sent and received with any public body outside Catalonia.
- The service iArxiu, together with the document management service SAVE IT, allow Catalan public entities to create their unique electronic archive.
- The services of the AOC Consortium are already integrated with the “Electronic General Access Point” of the State and, from this portal, citizens are allowed to consult their procedures and actions with an inter-administrative vision. An interoperability hub for citizen folders has been created, which today integrates the procedures of the Generalitat and the AOC Consortium itself. This interconnection will be opened to Catalan bodies to facilitate the interoperability of their own applications with the "General electronic access point" of the State.
- The service Representa (manager of representations and powers) is in its final phase of development and will be integrated with Apodera, the State registry.
From the AOC, we continue to work to achieve the legally established goals with the aim of offering the Catalan Public Administrations as a whole the services required to comply with the legal requirements in electronic administration.
