The Competence Centre will thus become the central actor in creating interoperability in the health sector. The Competence Centre is given essential tasks, such as the central prioritisation of needs, commissioning third parties to develop specifications and providing a single quality-assuring comment and standardisation process, as well as a conformity assessment procedure. Only by creating such a central actor can it be ensured in a sustainable manner that the existing continuing challenges in promoting interoperability can be addressed effectively.

The tasks of the Health Interoperability Competence Centre and the procedures (accreditation, conformity assessment, proposal for mandatory definition) necessary for the interoperability process are regulated in general.