DTCE Digital Trust and Compliance Europe

Last week (2 December 2012) the first Digital Trust and Compliance Europe – DTCE meeting took place in Berlin.  Almost parallel to establishing EESPA, Christiaan van der Valk founded the DTCE.

The aim is to significantly strengthen the role of ICT trust services by putting together a lobby group that could lead to a bigger and sustainable market for ICT trust and compliance products and services.

The elevator pitch of the DTCE

How the DTCE looks at things:

• The products and services provided or used by DTCE members enhance the reliability billions and interactions on the Internet and other electronic networks every year.
• We believe that Europe can and must be a leading force in the continuous development of ICT trust and compliance as a necessary condition for the sustainable growth of e-commerce, e-business and e-government.
• the DTCE aims to ensure that those who have invested in innovation and high quality delivery of ICT trust and compliance products and services have their views and expertise appropriately presented and taken into account in European policy debates about:
  - e-signatures,
  - e-ID,
  - e-procurement,
  - e-invoicing
  - and many other topics.

EESPA and DTCE

The EESPA and the DTCE have a lot in common, you might even call them sisters, because both organisations:

• by their members have the largest market share in the EU e-invoicing arena: BSP’s and digital signature vendors.
• are a response to the change in European e-invoicing legislation as from 1 January 2013.
• aim to promote the interests of their members against the upcoming liberalisation.
• originated from stakeholders that know each other very well: Charles Bryant (EESPA) and Christiaan van der Valk (DTCE).
• cooperate to achieve their respective missions