With the Register Modernization Act, the IT Planning Council has defined the target view for a federal register landscape. Register-managing authorities, such as the BVA, are developing interoperable register applications and structures according to the “once-only” principle and are thus following the guidelines defined by the Onlinezugangsgesetz (Online Access Act, OZG).
Register applications, as specialized systems, maintain data sets with the same characteristics in the form of structured inventories. These represent the information base for administrative systems implementing buisness processes thereover to provide citizens their services and so ease access to otherwise complex usage scenarios.
Following OZG principles this means that users only have to authenticate themselves once for an administrative service and do not have to re-enter basic data that has already been recorded (“once-only”) – regardless of which federal state they are in and which of the 575 planned OZG services (LeiKa) they use.
Components of register modernization (source: according to BMI)
Consquently register modernization implicitly requires a secure federal technical infrastructure providing the technical environment within in which the all over register landscape will be established by standardized interoperable rules and design principles, e.g. by applying the methodology of the already exisitng Register Factory Framework according to Register Factory.
With regards to the SDG Regulation, the integration of this landscape into a Euro-Wide Eco-System including also “Digital Identities”, takes the ambition on a even higher level of complexity.
By integrating the SAFE service account into our register solutions, Westernacher Solutions is already prepared for such requirement.
Register applications, such as ZTR, are XÖV-compatible SOA blueprints for OZG-compliant administrative digitization. By integrating (OpenData) cross-sectional components in accordance with federal architecture guidelines, we already contribute to forthcoming shapes of a modern digital administration. By additionally adopting the SAFE standard (recommended by the german IT Planning Council) into our Identity-Management solutions, also in accordance with eIDAS, we furthermore meet the OZG Requirements with respective to the GDPR.
Joachim Schäfer // Head of eGovernment // Westernacher Solutions
There are around 380 register systems nationwide, such as the National Register of Weaponry (Nationales Waffenregister), the Register of Civil Registry (Melderegister), the Central Register of Immigration (Ausländerzentralregister). However, lastly the coronavirus pandemic is not the only thing that has revealed that further types of registers may be required in future (e.g. Register Of Vaccination, Identity Data Retrieval) in order to adapt to changing conditions. Therefore, in addition to aforementioned service standards such as “once-only”, the “one-for-all principle” (EfA) continues to play an important role in the governance of Federal Information Management (FIM) with a coordinated technical topology in order to successfully contribute to the Online Access Act.
