A public draft, during the last year, of European Interoperability Framework for the European Public Services that has the version 2.0 underwent the scrutiny from many interest groups. Their response was usually overwhelmingly positive. But a more recent non-public draft that is obtained by the Dutch IT news site Webwereld of IDG has undergone some major changes and does not speak much about open the standards at all.

The latest version of this draft had been sent to all of the E.U. member states for the purpose of revision. Its version 1.0 which was accepted in the year 2004 had demanded the open standards. It had defined three of the main characteristics for an open standard. These three characteristics are that it must be maintained by some public body, it must be free or had to be available for nominal amount of fee, and the patents were only allowed if there was any irrevocable and royalty-free license. The draft for version 2.0 given during the last year is still positioning the open standards as one tool for enabling fair competition and creating a level of playing field.