Fear not Skybird. Being a Government-led directive, it will probably be implemented after numerous 'feasibility studies' by 'think tanks' (read: it will take bloody ages to get off the ground, and be really badly planned and implemented when it does). But despite all the studies, the contract will go to some European MP's buddy, who once mentioned to him at their club that he 'has a company that does that sort of thing'.
Then, it will probably use a Windows-based system, so at some point it will crash and lose all the data. I'm not joking here, read about the Air Traffic control computer fiasco in the UK at Swanwick, it was over ten years behind schedule when it finally went operational, and it still has more bugs than a Sony RPG:
'The air traffic control centre at Swanwick in Hampshire is finally operational, ending one of the most embarrassing episodes in government IT history.
The centre will cover all of England and Wales except London and Manchester, and should be capable of handling 30 per cent more flights.
It was expected to have a 30-year life. But its operator, National Air Traffic Services (Nats) is already planning to replace its systems in around 20 years.
Yet another government IT project dogged by software problems and spiralling budgets.'
Then, seek further solace in how the European 'Union' lack of unity arses things up with the depressing regularity of an atomic clock. Half the countries in the EU cannot organise themselves vetoe 'get out clauses' quickly enough most of the time, because they'd have a hard time agreeing on what colour the sky is, let alone some kind of cross-border data-sharing protocols. The Euro bank notes are a case in point here, there were so many squabbles about what they should look like, and what illustrations they should have on them, that in the end, they couldn't agree on it, as a result, all the drawings of buildings on the Euro notes are not actually real buildings at all, but fictional ones. Which, ironically, is probably more symbolic of how the EU operates than they would likely prefer!
The EU, more a case of
'Big Brother would like to be watching you, but can't decide on what colour his binoculars should be' than Orwell's vision.
Chock