State-of-play report on digital public administration and interoperability 2024

This new edition of the study builds upon the Interoperable Europe Act, which entered into force in April 2024 to strengthen cross-border interoperability and cooperation in the public sector across the EU. The Act has introduced a new structure of cooperation between EU Member States and EU institutions to secure cross-border exchange of data and agree on shared digital solutions, such as open source software, guidelines, and frameworks. The new cooperation framework intends to address several new policy developments that affect one way or another digital services designed and provided by the public sector. Moreover, this report also supports the objectives of the Digital Decade policy programme 2030 by referencing national initiatives on the digital transformation of public administrations and public services, as well as interoperability, thus complementing existing data and indicators included in the Digital Decade reports and related resources. The report presents the main trends identified through the analysis of the 2024 edition of the Digital Public Administration factsheets (DPAFs), as well as the 2023 results of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) monitoring mechanism. In addition to the data collected under NIFO, common trends are analysed at both the European and international levels to identify synergies across policy domains. What is more, the report has been further enriched with three interviews with experts in their respective fields, namely the EU Green Deal, the Interoperable Europe Act, and GovTech. Compared to previous editions, the main novelty introduced this year is the extended scope of the geographical coverage of the report, and more specifically the addition of eight new European countries to the scope of the DPAFs data collection.