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In the joint declarations ‘Building the next-generation cloud for businesses and the
public sector in the EU’ of 15 October 2020 (30) and the Berlin Declaration on Digital
Society and Value-Based Digital Government of 8 December 2020 (31), Member
States expressed great interest in determining a common approach to federating cloud
capacities by interconnecting cloud computing infrastructures across the Union and
working towards the deployment of a secure and interoperable European public-sector
cloud federation. In its conclusions on the future of EU digital policy of 21 May 2024
(32), the Council of the European Union confirmed the relevance and importance of
achieving this common approach by inviting the Commission to continue its support
for the development of interoperable public digital services and the cross-border
interconnection of public administrations’ infrastructure, including cloud and edge
infrastructures, to increase their resilience, efficiency and sustainability. To achieve
this common approach, it is necessary to establish the European public-sector cloud
federation (‘the EuroCloud Federation’). The EuroCloud Federation should bring
together national and European cloud initiatives that provide highly trusted and secure
public-sector cloud capabilities and facilitate the sharing of such capabilities between
Union entities and public-sector bodies. When evaluating this Regulation, the
Commission may, at a later stage, assess the possibility for acceding countries,
candidate countries and potential candidates, as well as for international organisations
whose headquarters are in the Union, to participate in the EuroCloud Federation, in
accordance with Union law.