Commission services will implement the Digital Strategy for the European Commission to become a digitally transformed, user-focused and data-driven administration. 

The College will lead by example by holding paperless meetings supported by an e-College tool. Based on this precedent, paperless meetings will be introduced at all levels of the organisation.

The Commission will continue to digitalise the working processes underpinning its policymaking, including its management of documents (Decide, Hermes and EdiT). This digital transformation aims to simplify, streamline and automate the Commission’s working processes, while guaranteeing efficiency, security and legal soundness. 

All Commission staff will be equipped with the necessary tools to embrace a collaborative way of working and to reduce the need to print documents. Key horizontal processes, including financial management, case management, grants management, procurement and access to documents, will be streamlined through new or improved sets of tools. In parallel, the Commission will introduce and gradually make use of the qualified electronic signature.

Quick access to reliable data is essential for effective policy-making and efforts will be stepped up to implement the Information, Data and Knowledge Management Strategy across the organisation. In this respect, measures will be taken to better manage and share data within and across services, always respecting restrictions due to data protection, information security and other legal obligations.