Steering Committee of DIN Standards Committee Finance
Customer Data Access and Portability in the Insurance Sector - Part 2: Implementation of EN XXXXX-1 as Open API Specification
Abstract
Article 20 GDPR and Article 4 and 5 the proposed FIDA Regulation require the data access and portability of customer data. To support this demand CEN/TC 445 will organise the standardisation project with its Working Group 1 in which the following European standardisation deliverable will be developed. CEN Technical Specification (TS) for the Application Programming Interface (API) at implementation level The TS specifies a concrete technical implementation of the proposed EN for “Customer Data Access and Portability in the Insurance Sector” as an Open API specification. The Open API syntax is published by the Open API Initiative, an open-source collaboration project of the Linux Foundation and is a specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualising RESTful web services. The Open API specification is the state-of-the-art technology for modern micro-service systems. The specification delivered with the TS as digital attachments should enable an instantaneous implementation with OpenAPI tools that can automatically generate code, documentation and test cases. All stakeholders that want to implement the EN will benefit from the Open API specification described in the TS due to: - Uniform implementation of the EN across the insurance sector, based on a common technology. - Avoidance of divergent implementations, thus avoiding incompatible digital interfaces between the stakeholders. - Facilitated implementation will accelerate the application of the EN. - Facilitated implementation will accelerate the usage of the EN by SMEs. The separation between the EN, the business standard at semantic level, and the TS, the technical specification at syntax level, ensures flexibility for evolving progress in data communication technologies. Thereby, an additional TS can easily be developed in future for an emerging new technology without changing the EN
Begin
2025-04-17
WI
00445006
Planned document number
00445006
Responsible national committee
NA 177-00-06 AA - Digital Information Interchange in the Insurance Industry
