Governance
Once-Only Principle (OOP)
Citizens/businesses provide information to government only once.
Definition
An administrative simplification principle where individuals and businesses submit required information to government a single time, with that data reused across public services via secure interlinking of systems and registers to eliminate repeated submissions and reduce administrative burden.
Related Terms
Once‑Only Principle (OOP)
Citizens/businesses provide information to government only once....
one-time-only
Citizens provide data to the state only once for reuse....
Once only
Principle to avoid repeated data entry across administrations....
digital registers
Authoritative machine-readable datasets supporting public services....
common solutions
National shared components and platforms for public services....