This Study presents the results of the independent assessment supporting the impact assessment of a future interoperability strategy for the EU’s public sector. The independent assessment was carried out by a team of researchers led by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) between September 2020 and September 2021. This Study relies on an analysis based on primary data collected from 134 stakeholders who participated in public and targeted consultations, as well as secondary data from a variety of sources, including relevant literatures, studies, reports, databases and official documents. The analysis presented in this Study follows the key elements of an impact assessment: the problems to be addressed, the objective to be pursued by a future initiative, the potential policy options to be pursued and their potential impacts across a range of areas as well as the comparison of the options.

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