We have developed this guidance document to set out our approach to interoperability authorisations under the 2019 Regulations, formalise our expectations, and provide a framework to facilitate the submission of authorisation applications of a high quality with the introduction of stage gates during the lifecycle of a project.
The guidance should provide confidence to applicants that authorisation will not be a barrier to meeting project timescales, will help spread workload associated with authorisation applications more evenly across the project lifecycle, and substantially reduce (or eliminate) the number of conditions we apply to authorisations.
We will continue to monitor the effectiveness of the policy and undertake a full review after 12 months.