5.1.2 E-Government (B) E-Government is Croatia’s strategic goal, ensuring a quick, transparent and secure service for all citizens via cyberspace. For this purpose it is necessary to establish a system of public registries and operate it on the basis of clearly defined rights, obligations and responsibilities of the competent public sector bodies. In order to ensure the necessary level of security for the information stored in such registries, a common base has to be used for secure exchange of information within the system of the government information infrastructure - a federated identification and authentication system (NIAS in Croatia, see Footnote 2). The Republic of Croatia will continue developing and improving its electronic communication with the citizens. It will also continue interconnecting the state bodies and bodies of the public sector in general. Special attention will be paid to: 1. Availability of information from public registries to all public sector bodies, citizens and other users in accordance with regulations on personal data protection, secrecy of information, information security and regulations on the right of access to public information; 2. Systematic development of the government information infrastructure, including spatial planning, building, maintenance, development and use of electronic communication networks and infrastructure for the needs of the public sector; 3. Systematic protection and security of government information infrastructure in accordance with information systems security regulations; 4. Croatian Government’s central management of the development of government information infrastructure, based on the agreed requirements and priorities; 5. Harmonising informatization plans and projects with the standards and other determinants regarding the building of information infrastructure in Croatia and the European Union; 6. Interoperability, scalability and information re-use; 7. Rationalisation of expenditure on building and protection of information infrastructure at the level of all public sector bodies. Objective B.1 Encouraging the interconnecting of information systems of public sector bodies and their connecting to the public Internet using government information infrastructure. Public sector bodies that are not covered by the law regulating the area of government information infrastructure will, in cooperation with the state bodies competent for the development and security of government information infrastructure, conduct an analysis of the needs and capabilities of connecting to the government information infrastructure and, based on its results, plan the connection to the government information infrastructure or additional protection measures. Objective B.2 Raising the security level of public sector information systems. The current state of implementation of information systems security measures in public sector bodies will be analysed and the dynamics will be defined for the application of the NIAS system and the appropriate standards (ISO 27001, etc.). Organizational and technical 11 of 31