rnance and information society. The mid-term plan foresees the following: - Drafting and adoption of the law on electronic governance with its sub-legal acts to be used for its implementation; - Drafting and adoption of the sub-legal act for the implementation of the law “On Public Notification and Consultation”; - Draft decision “Establishment and rules for the administration of Electronic Register for public notifications and consultations”; - Drafting and adoption of the law for the electronic identification in line with the EU acquis. Objective 4 Development of Electronic Governance (e-Governance), intending to improve the e-goevrnance index by 5 points (places). Developments related to e-Governance will be led by the principles of good and transparent governance by stimulating a cooperation culture and aiming towards an open, flexible and cooperating administration with citizens and businesses. As a candidate country, Albania will pursue the EU practises related to the e-Governance and will aim toward the implementation of the EU ministers declaration for the e-Governance. Implementation of Objective 3 will be fulfilled through the following activities: - Implementation of the National Interaction Framework, based on the European Interaction Network in order to complete the interaction of electronic systems; - Promotion of electronic services for citizens and businesses provided through the Governmental Interaction Platform, as well as the increase of new services in the governmental portal e-Albania.al, and the increase of online payment services, etc...; 30 - Implementation of the electronic exchange documents system, ERDMS in all the line ministries and the central administration and impovement of the e-cabinet service; - Establishment of the open data portal, as part of the unique services portal www.e-albania.al; - Establishment, implementation of the tracking system for the requests addressed to the line ministries; - Implementation of the electronic signature whilst delivering official services and communications; - Further development of the foreign finances management system, EAMIS; - Increase of security of the physical and logistical infrastructure of the governmental network, GovNET ; - Continuous improvement of capacities of the Center for Governmental Data; - Development of e-governance in the Local Government Units (LGUs) through the following: o Implementation of the unified informative portal and electronic services for the Local Government Units (LGUs); o Fruition of interaction between the Governmental Platform of System Interaction of the LGUs with the central systems, starting with ZRPP, NRC, RKGJC; o Integration of services related to LGUs in the service portal e-Albania, starting with the display of information related to the local tax obligations for the citizens; o Establishment of IT platforms for the administration of documents and tracking of service dissemination in the LGUs; - Awareness against the danger from cyber crime. Different activities will take place in this regard in order to enhance the inter-institutional cooperation between the different structures of information technology for the awareness of the different interest groups and prevention of these dangers as well as the development of safer internet practices;  Close cooperation with the national and

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