📋 Tender Overview
As part of the EU accession negotiations, a bilateral meeting between Ukraine and the European Commission on public administration was held in Brussels on October 9.
Valeriya Ionan, Deputy Minister for European Integration, presented Ukraine's achievements and plans for streamlining, accessibility, quality, and digitization of administrative services, as well as their alignment with EU legislation, including the European Interoperability framework, eIDAS, and Single Digital Gateway.
Ukraine has achieved significant results in the implementation of European digital standards. Our country received the highest marks for the implementation of the European Interoperability Framework, as evidenced by the Digital Public Administration factsheets — 2024. One of Ukraine's key priorities is the mutual recognition of electronic trust services between Ukraine and the EU. The necessary legislative changes have already been made, the European Union has highly assessed Ukraine's compliance with reforms in this area. At the same time, EU law is developing dynamically, and we plan to reflect these changes in Ukrainian legislation, in particular regarding the update of the EU eIDAS 2 Regulation.
"Ukraine is taking significant steps in the direction of full digitization of public services. Our goal is full integration into the digital space of the EU, and we are actively working on mutual recognition of electronic trust services between Ukraine and the European Union. Ukraine has already joined the Potential consortium, which is working on the development of the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI), where we cooperate with 19 EU member states. Joint efforts bring us closer to a common digital Europe," Valeriia Ionan emphasized.
During the meeting, it was noted that more than 125 services for citizens and businesses are available on the Diya portal, and more than 30 in the Diya application. Experience shows that the digital transformation of the state has a powerful anti-corruption effect. In just 2 years, the state saved UAH 16.3 billion thanks to digital solutions. Active work is also underway to implement legislative changes for integration into the European digital ecosystem.
Plans for the coming years for the accessibility of public services include the rehabilitation and modernization of Administrative Service Delivery Centers (ADSCs) that were destroyed or damaged by war, as well as their transformation into inclusive and digital offices to ensure equal access for all citizens.
For this, we continue to work on increasing the coverage of high-speed Internet and restoring the telecom infrastructure and further adapting the legislation to the requirements of eIDAS 2 and NIS2 (Directive of the European Union on ensuring a high level of cyber security of network and information systems). This will simplify the processes of providing electronic services and ensure full interaction with EU digital systems. We are preparing for the next meetings with the EU, because digitalization is a cross-cutting element and is present in many negotiating sections.
Bilateral meetings with the EU continue as part of the negotiation process regarding Ukraine's accession to the European Union, the purpose of which is to ensure compliance of national reforms with European standards and full integration of Ukraine into the digital space of the EU.
