DEFINITION: Organisation ABB is a Business Actor providing and/or consuming Public Services as a principal. Source: EIF and the ISA2 Core Vocabularies (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:2c2f2554-0faf-11e7-8a35-01aa75ed71a1.0017.02/DOC_3&format=PDF) (https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/cpov/asset_release/core-public-organisation-vocabulary-v100#download-links) Syn. Institution, body INTEROPERABILITY SALIENCY: IoP Dimension: Governance IoP The Organisation ABB is salient for organisation interoperability because organisations can play the role both of providers of Public Services (mainly Public Administrations) and consumers of Public Services (Public Administration or businesses), as stated in the EIF: "A European public service comprises any public sector service exposed to a cross-border dimension and supplied by public administrations, either to one another or to businesses and citizens in the Union." EXAMPLES: The following implementation is an example on how this specific Architecture Building Block (ABB) can be instantiated as a Solution Building Block (SBB): AFIS - Europol organisation Europol is the European Union’s law enforcement agency. Its main goal is to achieve a safer Europe for the benefit of all the EU citizens. Source: (https://www.europol.europa.eu/)