Area: Javna uprava
Competent authority: MNZ
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 27
Initiative accepted and completed: '2012-10-03'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2012-04-16'
Initiative published: '2012-04-16'
Initiative submitted: '2012-04-13'
Response from the competent authority: In the past, the organisation of public administration
  institutions has allowed the development of individual e-services within each institution,
  which has indeed led to a variety of solutions. In order to reduce costs, make services
  more user-friendly, and also because of the growing need to develop more interoperable
  e-services, the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration is working towards
  common approaches to the development of these services, including the standardisation
  of e-signatures. This is also one of the important objectives in the strategic documents
  for the development of e-business, and a new strategy for efficient state informatics
  is being prepared which will give even more emphasis to this unification. This will
  consider the possibility for the State to provide an open-source signature component
  supporting all major browsers. The NIO (National Interoperability Framework) portal,
  where all relevant documents and technical solutions of individual eGovernment services
  are published, has also been launched, providing even more opportunities for service
  providers from different departments in the public administration to use common
  solutions.We have already made efforts in the past to unify e-signatures. A few
  years ago, a single licence for signature software was purchased and made available
  to all e-service providers in the public sector. However, the wider deployment in
  practice has been hampered by the e-services already in place with their e-signature
  solutions and by the difficulties of installing, using and maintaining the signature
  component. Such problems are also encountered in other countries. Therefore, alternatives
  are increasingly being considered, where only the authentication of the user would
  be performed on the client (browser) side and the e-signature itself would be generated
  on a central system. This solution is still at the concept level, so it is a long
  way from actual implementation, but it would bring a number of advantages, including
  simplification for the user and, of course, standardisation.
Text file: 27.txt
Title: Proposal to harmonise electronic signatures
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=27
