Technical Background

The European Union is evolving and requires different forms of communication to cope with the continuous growth in data exchange caused by increasing commercial activities.

Exclusively manual processing does not provide the responsiveness a modern society requires. e-CODEX will automate legal procedures through the use of e-Services, system-to-system integration and message transport, thus making the system more mature.

For European nations to be semantically interoperable they have to share a technical language, its vocabulary, syntax and semantics must be well understood. With a common technical language, communication partners compose messages that are easy to process and are consistent. For system-to-system integration and electronic message exchange additional standardisation is required.

System to system integration will evolve in close relation to legacy systems. Successfully combining and transforming semantic building blocks is only possible by obeying the supra national and national criteria.