Call for proposals

2020 CEF Telecom call - Business Register Interconnection System (BRIS) (CEF-TC-2020-2) CEF-TC-2020-2-BRIS Open!

Under this call, proposals will be funded that address one or both of the generic services below:

Implementation or upgrade of the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS)
Implementation of the Beneficial Ownership Registers Interconnection System (BORIS)

Applicants should address at least one of the activities below:

Implementation or upgrade of the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS)

Support either the implementation or the upgrade of business registers by integrating the latest data model and standard messages coming from the European Central Platform of the BRIS DSI and required by the new functionalities introduced by Directive 2019/1151
Deploy IT software that would allow business registers to convert documents and information submitted or filed by a company or a branch into machine-readable document/structured data using leading formats and standards, and to transfer such machine readable/structured data through BRIS

Implementation of the Beneficial Ownership Registers Interconnection System (BORIS)

Support the implementation of central registers storing information on beneficial ownership by integrating the data model and the standard messages coming from the European Central Platform of the BRIS DSI
Deploy IT software and/or develop organisational capacities supporting the electronic authentication and authorisation of obliged entities or competent authorities to access the EU-wide beneficial ownership registers interconnection system (BORIS), in line with the standard solution to be agreed in the context of the interconnection projecT
Enable national payment service providers used in the context of central national beneficial ownership registers in the Member States to support the distributed payment solution model to be established in the context of the EU-wide interconnection of beneficial ownership registers.

The Community provisional funding available for the call for proposals is:

Opened to the following bodies or institutes with legal status established in the covered areas:

Bodies or institutes must have their registered legal seat in one of the countries taking part in the Programme which are:

Directorate-General for Energy and Transport