Relatively new in Romania, IT governance is defined as procedures and policies established in order to assure that the IT system of an organization sustains its goals and strategies. This bundle of policies and procedures, following the best practices in the area, intends to guide and control the IT function in order to add value to the organization and to minimize IT risks. The purpose of the research is to identify the measure in which the IT governance practices are implemented to the level of the financial institutions in Romania. The goal of this paper is a comparative analysis for implementing IT governance using data offered by the IT Governance Institute. This institute makes every year a study (IT Governance Global Status Report – 2006) to determine a sense of priorities and to develop actions for implementing IT governance, using data which acknowledges once more the need for all organizations to have tools and services to assure an efficient IT governance. In this way, the research will analyze, in the field of Romanian financial institutions, the most serious IT problems pointed out by the respondents from the last year, the most efficient measures considered by top management for resolving problems pointed out, the best used practices in IT governance and the most used frameworks for implementing IT governance practices.

Nowadays we encounter an increasing need for electronic services that spans all over the services' taxonomy. Eservices ease access to processes and resources that have implied a lot of administrative burden in the past. One of the most bureaucratic and conservative service areas is the administrative field. Our paper focuses on the solutions that we have developed in order to achieve the interoperability goals for pan-European administrative services based on existing PSCs (Point of Single Contact) developed in each EU country. The solution is based on a common specification that defines a layer that integrates the European administrative services on top of the functionality of the existing PSCs. The paper focuses the document model, a issue that determines the interoperability degree of the system. Administrative services, common specifications, point of single contact, European interoperability layer

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