Successful reali­sa­tion of the Online Access Act for ITZBund

The Infor­ma­ti­ons­tech­nik­zen­trum Bund (ITZBund) is the central IT service provi­der for the German federal adminis­tra­tion. The digita­li­sa­tion of public adminis­tra­tion plays a pivotal role for the whole of Germany. The ITZBund has a politi­cal mandate from the federal govern­ment to support the adminis­tra­tion with modern IT and prepare it for the digital future.

In coope­ra­tion with the ITZBund, pro et con was awarded the contract for stage 4 of the Online Access Act (Online­zu­gangs­ge­setz – OZG), inclu­ding the ZEBRA (Zentra­li­sie­rung des Brennens unter Abfin­dung – centra­li­sa­tion of distil­ling under compen­sa­tion payment) and BIBER (Berech­nung der Bier- und Brannt­wein­steuer – calcu­la­tion of tax on beer and spirits) proce­du­res, follo­wing the successful imple­men­ta­tion of stage 3.

Paving the way for this colla­bo­ra­tion was the successful reali­sa­tion of the BS2000-Migration for ITZBund by pro et con.

Schnapsbrennerei

Requi­re­ment: under the Online Access Act (Online­zu­gangs­ge­setz – OZG) of 14 August 2017, German public autho­ri­ties at federal, state and munici­pal level are requi­red to offer their services digitally via adminis­tra­tive portals. The goal is to fully digita­lise public services inclu­ding the automa­ted retrie­val of existing user regis­try verifications.

Reali­sa­tion: in 2022, pro et con already successfully imple­men­ted stage 3 by expan­ding the ZEBRA proce­dure to link to the adminis­tra­tive portal (for more infor­ma­tion, see the ITZBund press release and our news). Since then, appli­ca­ti­ons for compen­sa­tion payments can be submit­ted online via the citizen and commer­cial custo­mer portal, without the need of postal requests. The inter­nal proces­sing, however, initi­ally remained largely unchan­ged and thus requi­res a high degree of manual effort. This is about to change in the fourth expan­sion stage (OZG4).

Result: once comple­ted, data from the citizen and commer­cial custo­mer portal can be automa­ti­cally trans­fer­red and proces­sed. The OZG project is one of the federal government’s largest digiti­sa­tion projects.