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Legal information system,
authentic publication and
the process of law making
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Principles
 Automation of law making: E-Recht
 Publication: Legal information system (RIS)
 Authentic publication: Function of RIS
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Automation of making federal laws
 Electronic editing of documents
 Electronic workflow system between all
stakeholders
 Output for authentic publication in the Internet
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Electronic editing of documents
 Goal: look and feel of a "Bundesgesetzblatt"
 Generation of documents with WinWord
 Templates
 Style sheets
 Macros for automatic layout
 Conversion to XML for transport
 Editing of documents with WinWord
(conversion back from XML and to XML again)
 Technical filter for conformance with XML syntax
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Legislative workflow
Output to RIS
Ministry generates
legislative text
Public examination
of drafts
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electronic
law making
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BKA gets
decision
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Transfer to the
council of ministers
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BKA generates
and publishes
bill of the government
Parliament gets bill
of the government
& puts decision
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Regierungsvorlage erstellt
Regierungsvorlage
Bundesgesetz
Ministerratsvortrag
beschlossen
Ministerratsvortrag
Bundesgesetz
Begutachtungsverfahren
abgeschlossen
Auf erneutes
Begutachtungsverfahren
pruefen
Begutachtungsverfahren
abgeschlossen
Begutachtungsverfahren
Begutachtungsverfahren
notwendig
Bundesministerium
Bundesministerium
Eskalationsprozess
Ministerratsvortrag nicht
beschlossen
Begutachtungsverfahren erneut
notwendig
Begutachtungsverfahren
abgeschlossen
Bundesgesetz
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Vorhaben
Vorhaben
Auf
Begutachtungsverfahren
pruefen
Vorhaben
erzeugt
Vorhabenerzeugung
Rechtsquelle ist
Bundesgesetz
eJustice
D7.2 Example: Workflow "Bundesgesetz"
http://rechtsinformatik.jura.uni-sb.de/ejustice/lexecute/start.html
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What is RIS?
 Data base for legal texts of Austria
 Means for the promulgation of federal law
("Bundesgesetzblätter")
 Operated by BKA
 Free of charge
 www.ris.bka.gv.at
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Which legal texts?
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European law
Current/old versions of federal law
Selected laws in English
Legal drafts
Decisions of high courts
Tribunals and Commissions (e.g. Independent Senate
for Asylum)
 Instructions of the ministries
 Current/old versions of the law of the 9 Austrian
provinces
 Law of some communities
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Input to RIS
 XML from E-Recht
 In RIS documents are signed
 MOA (Modules for Online-Applications)
 MOA-SS: Signs documents
 MOA-SP: Verifies the signature
 From some other 30 sources (Europe, provinces,
communities)
 Challenge: some 30 applications
 Challenge: XML?
 Upload with HTTP, FTP or by storage media
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Output from RIS
 Web interface
 Internet to the public, Intranet to civil servants
 Output formats for most documents
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HTML
XML
DOC
RTF
PDF
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RIS statistics 2005
 Internet
73.000.000 hits / year
6.000.000 hits /month
 Intranet
31.700.000 hits / year
2.640.000 hits /month
 Total
104.700.000 hits / year
8.640.000 hits /month
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Thank you for your attention
[email protected]
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