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In January 2006 the European Commission launched a project aiming at transferring the EU government-to-business e-services to the public administration bodies in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

TRANSFER-EAST is a Specific Support Actions aiming at favouring the transfer of learning, facilitating the exchange of e-government good practices and their transfer when appropriate and contributing to enhance the quality of e-government initiatives across Europe. TRANSFER-EAST will also address critical issues that might hamper the transfer of good experiences such as the legal aspects of the process of re-using successful developments among the different administrations, the ownership of the systems and their relationship with the public tendering procedures which the public administrations have to follow, and the various aspects of the public-private partnership undertaking notably tax services (corporate tax services, VAT declaration, social contribution for employees services), statistical services (registration of a new company, submission of statistical data) and other services (custom declarations, environmental permits, participation in public invitation to tender, etc.).

TRANSFER-EAST methodology is based on 3 major steps. After a short pre-feasibility (Phase 1) focused on the selection of the available practices/cases and the involvement of the Public Administration, a first batch of 25 European successful practices will be initially selected (Phase 2). Out of the initially selected 25, it is expected that 10 G2B practices/cases will be engineered and transferred to the recipient Public Administrations in the 5 selected NMS (Phase 3) also through 5 knowledge transfer work-shops.

TRANSFER-EAST project is focused on three levels of public administration offering the G2B services: national (ministries, statistical offices, procurement offices, central bodies for taxes and regulations), regional (self-governing regions) and local (municipalities).

More information on project will be soon available at the project website: www.transfereast.net.