consumers. They must have a leading role regarding the demand of services by offering their public services on-line. Interoperability of electronic identification is an especially important aspect. It means that Members of the European Community, as well as the world information society will install a system that will recognise the electronic means of identification of people, of animals and devices. This identification in a unique way will be used in all services offered by the society. Measure 2.12. Preparation of an analysis and recommendations about the interoperability of services, in technical, semantic and organisation sense, taking into account international standards36. According to the strategy for the development on the level for Europe by 2008, a standard will be established which all member state will implement for interoperability of electronic identification and electronic services. II.13. ICT Research The i2010 Programme lays down three priorities for the establishment of a European Information Society. One of the priorities is innovation and investment in research in the information and communications sector for the purpose of promoting economic growth and increasing the quantity and quality of new employments. At world level, it has been concluded that countries with a high level of productivity are characterized by large investments in ICT research and development (RD). These countries attract more foreign investments and have more open markets for trading. Successful globalisation and market delocalisation, and consequently attracting of investments, are fully conditioned by the aforementioned investments. It is known that Europe is lagging behind the most developed countries in the world, such as USA, Japan, and Korea, relating to the percentage of investments in research in the area of information and communication technologies. These countries invest in research in the ICT sector over one third over their aggregate public and private investments in research. In Europe this percentage is around 20. In order to reduce this gap, the European Commission has recently started two new initiatives for intensifying research in the information and communication technologies, these are the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP). Europe's goal is to achieve an aggregate investment in research and development of 3% of the GDP, and the achievement of this goal calls for grater investment in research in the ICT sector. The FP7 defines six technological pillars of ICT: 36 Пример: http://www.oasis-open.org Page 36 of 40