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It also facilitates the mobility of citizens and businesses within the European Union through legal and effective EU-wide evidence. However, despite the existence of several semantic standards, a lack of an ontology for EU-wide evidence persists, primarily due to the low level of EU harmonisation of information that may prove compliance with procedural requirements. Building EU-wide evidence involves several cross-border communities of practice, composed of experts with different technical, legal, organisational, semantic, idiomatic and cultural backgrounds, spanning various public administration levels and sectors. This diversity introduces a range of cross-border, socio-technical challenges that have not been directly addressed in existing literature or by European projects and initiatives. 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