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COVID-19 is regarded as a major driver for digital transformation of our society and, potentially as a boost for further digital single market integration. From the current perspective, pandemics cannot be avoided, but fully enabled digital societies will be better prepared to cope with them in future. This will, however, require reliable digital infrastructures to be put in place and further developed. Member States of the European Union and the European Commission have worked for more than 30 years to realise a European Digital Single Market. One key element in this development has been the so-called 'Large Scale Piloting' (LSP) approach. This paper will focus on implementation of the 'Once-Only Principle' Pilot (TOOP) as part of LSP and the adjoint Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR). This paper will examine whether, and how these initiatives can foster further integration into a digital single market.

Part 3: E-government Services and Governance ; International audience ; The electronic identification and trust service regulation (eIDAS) was adopted in 2014 to create a digital common market in the European Union (EU). As the world is becoming more and more digital, countries need to develop ways to integrate digital migrants. While the EU does not currently have a digital common market, several EU countries already have working systems for cross-border digital cooperation. The principal focus of this article was to address whether eIDAS can be implemented in these countries, without challenging the local initiatives. The Estonian e-government system (EES) was chosen as an exemplary case. Here we analyzed whether the eIDAS complements or challenges the national e-government initiatives, such as Estonia's e-residency project, and whether it is in the interest of member states to contribute to the fast implementation of the eIDAS as the most effective measure for achieving cross-border use of e-services. To address these questions, a content, context and process (CCP) analysis framework was used. Based on our findings, we concluded that, although the eIDAS creates some additional obligations, the regulation supports national e-government goals and domestic cross-border initiatives. Also, without supranational interference, it is highly unlikely that digital open borders could be created among 28 member states. Thus, it is in the interest of the member states to contribute to a fast implementation of the eIDAS.

The Once-Only Principle (OOP) is part of the seven underlying principles of the eGovernment Action Plan 2016–2020. Its importance is highlighted by the Tallinn Declaration on eGovernment, signed on October 6, 2017, and the Berlin Declaration on Digital Society and Value-Based Digital Government, signed on December 8, 2020. OOP aims to make the government more effective and more superficial and to reduce administrative burdens by asking citizens and companies to provide certain (standard) information to the public authorities only once. Thus, the goal of this TOOP book is to describe and document the developments and results of the Once-Only Principle Project (TOOP). TOOP was not a typical example of the type of large-scale pilot usually funded by the EU Framework Pro- gramme for Research and Innovation. It was a horizontal project that was policy-driven, with the aim of showing that the implementation of OOP in a cross-border and cross-sector setting is feasible. More than 50 partners from more than 20 Member States and associated countries of the EU participated in the TOOP project. Several things happened during the project, such as the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the most essential "game-changing" event was the establishment of the Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR). With the TOOP book, we wanted to summarize the results of the TOOP project from different points of view, from policy, organizational, architectural, and, last but not least, technical perspectives.