Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA)

The Union and Member States shall take the necessary measures to encourage Union entities and public sector bodies to use and facilitate the reuse of open standards and components released under an open source licence when building their cloud and AI ecosystem or stack, taking into account functionalities, including security, total cost, and other relevant, duly justified objective criteria.

When making software to which they hold intellectual property rights available for reuse under an open source licence, a Union entity or public sector body shall do so using a catalogue or repository that is connected to, and made accessible through, the EU OSS Catalogue referred to in Article 43.

1. The Commission shall provide and maintain an EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue (‘EU OSS Catalogue’) as a centralised catalogue to access software made available for reuse by Union entities and public sector bodies.
2. The EU OSS Catalogue shall be hosted on the Interoperable Europe portal referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/903 and shall be accessible electronically free of charge.
3. The Commission shall, on the basis of objective and relevant criteria, decide on the request of any Union entity or public sector body owning or maintaining a catalogue or repository to have that catalogue or repository connected to and made accessible through the EU OSS Catalogue.

1. The Commission shall establish a network of Open Source Programme Offices (‘OSPO Network’) to facilitate cooperation on the implementation of the obligations under this Chapter.
2. Open Source Programme Offices established by public sector bodies at local, regional or national level in a Member State, and those established by Union entities, may request from the Commission to join the OSPO Network.
3. The OSPO Network shall have the following tasks:
   1. facilitating the exchange of information, experience and best practices between Member States and the Commission, in particular by discussing common technical, legal and organisational challenges, including those related to licensing, security, maintenance and procurement of open-source software;
   2. promoting the sharing and reuse of open-source software by public sector bodies;
   3. contributing, on a voluntary and non-binding basis, to the development of guidance, templates or recommendations on the sharing and reuse of open-source software;
   4. collaborating on and exchanging open-source projects of common interest to Union entities and public sector bodies.
4. The Commission shall support and coordinate the OSPO Network.
5. The Commission shall convene and chair a meeting of the members of the OSPO Network at least twice a year. The meetings of the OSPO Network may be organised online.