For more information on the following, please contact the organizers at the CEF-BUILDING-BLOCKS@ec.europa.eu email address.
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The European Commission aims to develop the European Digital Single Market to foster economic growth by removing barriers that impede data from flowing across borders and sectors. The Large Scale Pilot (LSP), e-SENS<http://www.esens.eu/> and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF),<https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/connecting-europe-facility> which operationalises services developed in the LSPs, have been working  closely on the implementation of secure message exchange in several policy domains of the Union, commonly known as eDelivery. To make this a reality, a profile of the AS4 message exchange specification was developed and is now being promoted for adoption by software vendors under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).

Please click here<https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eDelivery>
to know more about the eDelivery building block of the Connecting Europe Facility and please click
here<http://wiki.ds.unipi.gr/display/ESENS/PR+-+AS4> to know more about  the AS4 profile developed by the e-SENS Large Scale Pilot.

Further to the launch of the CEF Digital Single Web Portal<https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Digital+Home> and the finalisation of the 2016 CEF work plans, the European Commission is holding a half day information session on Thursday 26 May for software vendors, system integrators, implementers and training providers interested in AS4 with the following objectives:
1. Launch CEF eDelivery's conformance testing services of the AS4 profile created by the e-SENS Large Scale Pilot.
2. Explain the process for participants interested in implementing the AS4 profile to: a. participate in and complete conformance testing; and b. describe their conformance tested products for inclusion in the CEF
Digital Single Web Portal<https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Digital+Home>.

3. Provide an overview of the financial support available to participants to support their development of software compliant with the aforementioned AS4 profile in different policy areas of the European Union.

Please confirm your interest in participating in this information session by replying to this mail as places are limited. We would appreciate if you could disseminate this information to relevant audiences. We will shortly publish the notice of on the CEF DIGITAL website, social media and several relevant eGovernment websites.

Please do not hesitate to contact the CEF Stakeholder Management Office<mailto:CEF-BUILDING-BLOCKS@ec.europa.eu?subject=Information%20session%20on%20the%20AS4%20profile%20of%20the%20CEF%20eDelivery%20building%20block>
with any queries in advance of this meeting.