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On the 1st of September the 2nd meeting of the Resonance Group on the Future of EReg/EUCARIS took place. This Resonance Group has been installed following the agreements of the EUCARIS General Assembly of September 2021 and the EReg General Meeting of May 2022. The online meeting was attended by 17 members and was chaired by Mr Servi Beckers (chair of EReg and  EUCARIS).

The meeting started with a short recap on what happened since the EReg GM&AC in Oslo: several meetings of the Joint Working Group took place and a questionnaire was sent to EReg members about the priorities of the work of both the EReg and EUCARIS Secretariat. A legal advisor has investigated the future partnership between EReg and EUCARIS with a focus first on combining the secretariats. One of the possible options is the establishment of a permanent secretariat of EReg.

KBA (Germany) volunteered to help and came up with the CCC-proposal: Closer Cooperation and the Convergence of EUCARIS and EReg. This was presented during the Resonance Group. Furthermore, Ms Idske Dijkstra (EUCARIS secretariat) explained the consequences for the EUCARIS Rules of Procedure and Ms Kim van Driel  (EReg secretariat) explained the consequences for the EReg Articles of Incorporation and Internal Rules.

The next step was to submit the new version of the EUCARIS Rules of Procedure to the members of the EUCARIS General Assembly for agreement during the meeting in Tallinn on 29 September. There the EUCARIS General Assembly approved the proposal on changing the Rules of Procedure, making the way ready for formally combining both secretariats. The coming period the Joint Working Group will further work on the plans and ideas, like for example the membership of EReg.

For more information you can contact the EReg Secretariat and/or the EUCARIS Secretariat.

On 29 and 30 September 2022 EUCARIS members came together in Tallinn for the EUCARIS General Assembly. More than 70 colleagues of 31 countries met each other in real life after two years of digital meetings. The two-days conference looked back to the EUCARIS operation in 2021/2022 and looked ahead to 2023 and beyond. Discharge was given by the General Assembly for the activities of EUCARIS Operations in 2021 and also an unanimous agreement was given on the EUCARIS budget for 2023. The Netherlands/RDW was unanimous re-appointed as the “EUCARIS Nominated Party for the Secretariat” for the next three years.

During the Tour de Table all Member States gave an update about their high- and lowlights of the last period and about their plans for 2022/2023. On both days there were several presentations from external speakers of the European Commission, CITA, PCC SEE and Council of Bureaux.

An important subject was the cooperation between EUCARIS and EReg. The General Assembly approved the proposal on changing the Rules of Procedure, which opens the way for formally combining both secretariats.

A main focus for 2023 is to work further on the plans and ideas for the cooperation of EUCARIS and EReg. One of the next steps is combining the EUCARIS General Assembly and the EReg General Meeting, which means that the next General Assembly will not take place in October 2023 but it will be a combined meeting in May 2023 in Stockholm.