Several governmental and private initiatives have been coordinated by
the Secretariat-General of the French Government in order to organize, under
France’s EU presidency, an event intended to inform the public about the
progress of projects that have been carried out in France and in Europe. Those
projects are favouring the improvement of access to law and the elaboration of
law thanks to technological developments, and to promote the improvements that
have been made in this field. Since the law of the Member States started to be
published via the Internet a decade ago, a European “Digital Legal Area”
composed of several elements (whether public or private, with charge or open
source) has progressively emerged. With the development of this area, it is
easier to put together and compare the legal systems on one hand, and the
technological standards enabling their digital broadcasting on the other hand.
The Official Journals of the Member States play a key role in that process. The
have gained a new dimension, by participating actively to the economic life of
their country, by contributing to the budget orthodoxy of their regulatory
authority through innovation in the field of self-financing, and finally appear
as a privileged way to experience the e-administration. In the same time, most
of the States are facing a growing (...)
Some short comments :
- http://www.service-public.gouv.fr is one of the best websites that makes law
accessible to the general public.
- European
law applicable to the European citizen
is the least widely known law ,not only to the average citizen but also to
local or national authorities
-European
institutions' websites do not "press on" their information on to
civil society at large, private sector or non-profit making publishers and do
not encourage further distribution by
other potential mediators .they still
consider themselves as the centre of the world.
-the public
sector information directive is still badly applied in most European countries
See all the presentations on http://www.legalaccess.eu/?lang=en
See also many papers on this
blog
Directory of legal gazettes in Europe, 2008
http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/2008/10/directory-of-legal-gazettes-in-europe-2008.html
Legal Informatics and Management of Legislative
Documents
UK Public Sector Information : a better way to use it
"Law via the Internet" -- LII 2008
conference in Florence
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