Publications Office – ESPD EDM
Meeting Date/Time: |
2025-10-02, 10.00 - 11.00 |
| Attendee Name | Organisation / Country |
|---|---|
Paloma ARILLO ARANDA |
OP |
Teodor BOROV |
Bulgaria |
Marilena CRISTEA |
ANAP - Romania |
Michaël DE WINNE |
BOSA - Belgium |
Aleksandra JESENOVEC LJUBOJEVIĆ |
Slovenia |
Ajda KONSTANJŠEK |
Slovenia |
Srđan KRASIĆ |
OP |
Ana MITKOVA |
Bulgaria |
Jil MOSAR |
Luxembourg |
Marc Christopher SCHMIDT |
DG GROW |
Giampaolo SELLITO |
ANAC - Italy |
Dragoș STOICA |
OP |
Meeting Agenda
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Summary OUC 17th June 2025
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GitHub status
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ESPD-EDM v4.1.0
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Business Rules - new approach
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Open discussion: relied upon entity
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Next steps
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Next meetings & AOB
1. Summary OUC meeting 17th June 2025
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The main topics discussed in June were summarised:
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What’s new in the ESPD Model for Q1 and Q2 2025.
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GitHub status: open and closed tickets.
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Insights from Belgium’s Implementation of Version 3.
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Next steps.
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2. GitHub status
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ESPD-EDM team informed about good news: the backlog is completely cleaned-up, there are no open tickets.
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Three tickets have been closed since the last meeting:
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All issues are part of incoming v4.1.0 release, the solutions are incorporated in new data model. Particularly, #427 will be discussed as separated point in Open discussion: relied upon entity.
3. ESPD-EDM v4.1.0
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The new release v4.1.0 was presented as a central part of the meeting. The list of the model changes was reviewed with details:
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SUBCRITERION simplification is similar to LEGISLATION in ESPD-EDM.
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For the Economic Operator the National Legislation text will be displayed.
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Links to evidence models – if available in eCertis.
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As an example, was presented the UI Mockup with EG Participation in a criminal organisation in Slovenian National Legislation and EU legislation extracted from eCertis.
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Part IV Selection Criteria (C: Technical and professional ability) the relied upon entities was added in: “For works contracts: performance of works of the specified type”, “For supply contracts: performance of deliveries of the specified type.” and “For service contracts: performance of services of the specified type.”
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Evidence block will be promoted at top level so that the Economic Operator can provide the link to the electronic evidence.
4. Business Rules – new approach
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ESPD-EDM team presented the ongoing work on Business Rules.
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Aligning with eForms Business Rules style.
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Identifying common code lists from EU Vocabulary.
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Defining Business Groups and Business Terms.
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Identifying Fields and their UBL mapping.
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Defining Business Rules.
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ESPD-EDM specific rules:
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ESPD Document structure.
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Mapping of Criteria to ESPD Document structure.
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OUC is invited to get involved in Business Rules creation and improvement.
5. Open discussion: relied upon entity
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Part IV Selection Criteria and the relied upon entity.
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Should each Selection Criterion contain the part where the relied upon entity can be specified?
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In ESPD-EDM v4.1.0 some Selection Criteria have the block for specifying the information about relied upon entities.
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Future versions of ESPD-EDM (v5.x.x) will systematically contain the block for relied upon entities in Selection Criteria.
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Conclusions:
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“Relied upon” element will be added in all criteria in a future release.
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The 2nd question (yes/no element) to be removed from the block.
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6. Next steps
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V4.1.0 release will be available for October 2025 with all announced changes included: moving Evidence block at top level for all Criteria; Subcriterion simplification; ESPD-EDM documentation.
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GitHub restructuring repositories to align with eForms and ePO.
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Business Rules: align with eForms.
7. Next meetings & AOB
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The Annual Seminar will be part again of Tenders Electronic Daily event (TED Together) on 27th-28th November 2025, with other Unit’s projects: eForms, eSenders, eProcurement Ontology and others. More information about TED events can be found in event calendar.
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The next OUC meeting is planned for Q1 2026.
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During an open and dynamic discussion at the end of the meeting, OUC colleagues were interested in a new approach to Business Rules. ESPD-EDM team explained the new approach in more detail.
