In force since 11 April 2024, the twentieth day after publication (Art. 23(1); OJ L 2024/903, 22.3.2024). It applies from 12 July 2024, and its interoperability assessment (Art. 3(1)–(4)) and the rules on national competent authorities and single points of contact (Art. 17) from 12 January 2025 (Art. 23(2)); both dates have passed. Read on 28 Oct 2026 in the Official Journal text retrieved from the Publications Office's Cellar; the Publications Office's metadata records it in force, with the same three dates.
In short: what you need to know
Objective: Common rules and a governance framework that promote the cross-border interoperability of trans-European digital public services, and so of the network and information systems beneath them, for the Union entities and public sector bodies that regulate, provide, manage or implement those services.
Who it binds: Union entity · Public sector body · Member State
Who it protects:not established
Core obligations: Interoperable Europe Act Art. 3 · Interoperable Europe Act Art. 4 key provisions →
Key dates: Entry into force 11 April 2024 · Application date 12 July 2024 · Application date 12 January 2025the timeline →
Sanction ceiling:no amount recordedNone: no Article of the Regulation sets fines or penalties (the Official Journal text, read in full on 28 Oct 2026). Recital 41 recalls that the European Data Protection Supervisor may impose administrative fines on Union entities in the interoperability regulatory sandboxes under Art. 58(2)(i) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.enforcement →
What does the Interoperable Europe Act do?
Common rules and a governance framework that promote the cross-border interoperability of trans-European digital public services, and so of the network and information systems beneath them, for the Union entities and public sector bodies that regulate, provide, manage or implement those services.
Regulated actor
Union entity · Public sector body · Member State
Protected party
not established
Territorial reach
not established
Implementation model
Directly applicable
Enforcement mechanism
not established
When does the Interoperable Europe Act apply? Key dates
Entry into force, application and transposition are different events and are kept apart. A date at month precision is shown as a month rather than invented as a day.
11 April 2024Entry into forceEntry into force
12 July 2024Application dateThe Regulation applies (Art. 23(2), first subparagraph), except Article 3(1) to (4) and Article 17, which apply from 12 January 2025.
12 January 2025Application dateThe interoperability assessment (Article 3(1) to (4)) and the designation of national competent authorities and single points of contact (Article 17) apply (Art. 23(2), second subparagraph). Article 3(5), on the Board's guidelines, applies from the general date.
The applicability engine holds no rule for this instrument yet. Absence of a rule is absence of knowledge, not evidence that the instrument does not reach you.
What does the Interoperable Europe Act require? Key provisions
4 provisions recorded. This is what the dataset holds, not the whole instrument — an article that is not here has not been entered, which is a different statement from its not existing.
Article
Heading
Binds
Applies
Art. 3load-bearing
Interoperability assessmentBefore taking a decision on new or substantially modified binding requirements, a Union entity or public sector body carries out an interoperability assessment; none is needed where one has already been carried out for those requirements or where they are implemented by solutions provided by Union entities (3(1)). The assessment identifies the effects of the requirements on cross-border interoperability, the stakeholders concerned and the Interoperable Europe solutions that support their implementation, and a report on its outcome, covering the items in the Annex, is published on an official website and shared with the Interoperable Europe Board (3(2)). The recipients of the services directly affected, including citizens, are consulted (3(4)).
Union entity · Public sector body
Applies from 12 January 2025a date set for named provisions: what it covers is under Key dates →
Art. 4load-bearing
Share and reuse of interoperability solutions between Union entities and public sector bodiesA Union entity or public sector body makes an interoperability solution supporting a trans-European digital public service, with its technical documentation and, where applicable, its documented source code, available to any other Union entity or public sector body that requests it (4(1)). The obligation does not cover solutions supporting processes outside the entity's public task, solutions for which third parties hold restricting intellectual property rights, or solutions excluded on grounds of critical infrastructure protection, defence or public security (4(1)(a)–(c)). Publishing on the Interoperable Europe portal fulfils it (4(3)). Solutions without restrictive licensing terms, such as open source solutions, are prioritised where they are equivalent (4(6)).
Union entity · Public sector body
Applies from 12 July 2024the instrument’s general date; nothing specific to this article is recorded
Art. 17
National competent authorities and single points of contactEach Member State designates one or more competent authorities responsible for the application of the Regulation, and a single point of contact from among them (17(1)), with the coordination and support tasks listed in 17(2). Member States ensure the authorities have adequate competence and resources (17(3)), notify the Commission of the single point of contact and make its designation public (17(5)).
Member State
Applies from 12 January 2025a date set for named provisions: what it covers is under Key dates →
Art. 18
Interoperability coordinators for Union entitiesAny Union entity that regulates, provides or manages trans-European digital public services designates an interoperability coordinator, under the oversight of its highest level of management, who supports that entity in setting up or adapting its internal processes to implement the interoperability assessment.
Union entity
Applies from 12 July 2024the instrument’s general date; nothing specific to this article is recorded
How is the Interoperable Europe Act enforced?
No enforcement recorded
This dataset holds no enforcement action under this instrument. That is what the record says; it is not a finding that none has been taken.
The instrument record itself was last verified on 28 October 2026; every claim below carries its own date.
No claims attached
No claim in the dataset is tagged to this instrument.
How does the Interoperable Europe Act interact with other EU laws?
2 recorded interactions with other instruments — each with a direction, the provisions that carry it and its own sources. Direction is preserved as recorded: an instrument that amends another is not the same as one amended by it.
This instrument leaves a matter to the other: a without-prejudice clause, a 'shall not affect' clause or an express reference sending the reader there. The locator is in the DEFERRING instrument's text (from). Added 27 Oct 2026 (docs/V2-DATA-DESIGN.md §1.4).
A consultation on an interoperability regulatory sandbox does not replace the GDPR's prior consultation, and processing in a sandbox leaves the data subjects' GDPR rights unaffected.
The other instrument's provisions operate through definitions, bodies, means or populations this instrument establishes, and say so. Recorded only on an express reference in the DEPENDENT instrument's text; the locator is in that text. Direction: from = the enabling instrument. Added 27 Oct 2026 (docs/V2-DATA-DESIGN.md §1.4).
The Interoperable Europe Act defines the network and information systems whose interoperability it promotes by reference to NIS2.