International Court Application for the European Payment Order
About
What is ICANEPO about?
Description
ICANEPO – International Court ApplicatioN for European Payment Order – is an EU-funded project to develop an application for the management of court cases of the European Payment Order by judicial authorities. The application takes into account the requirements established by the EPO Regulation and will offer interfaces to extend the application with national modules, such as a national language interface, court fees, etc. The application will further allow for the cross-border electronic communication via e-CODEX (www.e-codex.eu) as foreseen by the Judicial Digitalisation Regulation.
The project partners of Austria, Greece, Portugal and the Netherlands join forces within the 24 months of the project to create the application and to make it re-usable for further interested parties.
Objective
The “Regulation for the digitalisation of judicial cooperation” introduces a mandatory electronic communication via e-CODEX (www.e-codex.eu) between authorities and an obligation for authorities to receive electronic messages from citizens. Several European Member States are lacking the technical prerequisites for this obligation or need to renew their existing applications.
The objective of the project is therefore the creation of an international core application, which is based only on the requirements of the EPO Regulation but with interfaces to connect national extensions to it so that the application together with its national intentions can be used as a full case management system of the European Payment Order. The application will also support the e-CODEX communication for the European Payment Order. The project will offer the application to all Member States.
Target Goup
The target group are national judicial authorities competent for the European Payment Order. Citizens are already served by the EPO online forms at the e-Justice Portal and the future European Electronic Access Point.
Project Structure
Work Package 1 – Project Management & Coordination
The success of a project starts with efficient project management. This includes comminucation and coordination with internal and external project stakeholders.
Work Package 2 – Requirements Engineering & Implementation
This work package will first investigate in the requirements for the application from a European perspective but also national requirements. It will then develop an architecture for the application and subsequently implement and test the application.
Work Package 3 – Support & Training
This work package will support the technical development by establishing a distribution channel for the application and providing testing services. It will further draft a training concept and material for trainers and users.
Work Package 4 – Promotion & Sustainability
In order to motivate Member States to use the application, this work package will develop and execute promotion activities for a wide acceptance of the application. It will also develop provisions for the maintenance of the application after the project end and provide a licensing model for future users of the application.
Deliverables & Milestones
Deliverables
| # | Title | Due |
|---|---|---|
| D1.1 | Kick-Off Meeting | 05/2023 |
| D1.2 | Closing Meeting | 03/2025 |
| D1.3 | Mid-Term Progress Report | 04/2024 |
| D2.1 | Report on the gathering and analysis of requirements | 11/2023 |
| D2.2 | Architecture | 04/2024 |
| D2.3 | Software package of the international core | 02/2025 |
| D3.1 | Training material | 01/2025 |
| D3.2 | Testing Reports | 03/2025 |
| D4.1 | Promotion plan | 10/2023 |
| D4.2 | Maintenance agreement | 01/2025 |
| D4.3 | License agreement | 03/2025 |
Milestones
| # | Title | Due |
|---|---|---|
| MS1 | Project Start | 04/2023 |
| MS2 | Project End | 03/2025 |
| MS3 | Initial set of requirements is available | 10/2023 |
| MS4 | Initial architecture is available | 03/2024 |
| MS5 | Initial release of international core is available | 01/2025 |
| MS6 | Distribution channel available | 01/2025 |
| MS7 | Conformance tests with e-Justice finished | 03/2025 |
| MS8 | Agreement for technical maintenance after project end reached | 07/2024 |
| MS9 | Decision on licence model reached | 07/2024 |