19/11/2010 RACOTI, Calin-Mihai ECPRD-ITC 2010

Customer Request or End-Result? IT/Web-based

(Inter)Parliamentary ActivitiesECPRD

Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Information and Communication Technology

Bucharest, 18 -20 November 2010

The Department for Parliamentary Research and EU Law (1)

• Specialized structure within the General Secretariat of the Chamber of Deputies;

• It offers general and custom-made information materials, support and expertise in various areas;

• 2 components: EU Law Division and Legislative Studies and Documentation Division

The Department for Parliamentary Research and EU Law (2)

• EU Law Division, 3 Units• a. EU Policies Unit• b. EU Law and Jurisprudence Unit• c. European Databases Management and

Translations Office• The Office - is liaising with the EP&EU

institutions, IPEX, European Law Database, translations of EU related documents

Documents received by NPs

• Following Protocol No.1 TL, NPs will receive:• a. EC consultation documents – White & Green

Papers + Annual Legislative Program & any other policy or planning documents;

• b. Draft legislative acts – EC proposals, initiatives from a group of MS, initiatives from the EP, requests from the Court of Justice, recommendations from the ECB and requests from the EIB for the adoption of a legislative act;

• For transmission of documents – dedicated e-mail accounts

European Law Database

• Broad concept- repository of EU law draft documents

• Narrow use – ease filing, handling & use of (multilingual) documents

• Role – raise awareness, offer insight into EU process’, ease reference

• Construction – open access section / restricted for internal use

Future Developments of the System and Correlation with IPEX

• Automated notification of relevant Parliamentary Committees

• Clustering of documents into Dossiers/Thematic Files

• Extended array of variables/searchable • Web-based Inter-parliamentary

Cooperation: open/private forums, videoconferences, standard templates for documents, communication & publications

Thank you!

Calin-Mihai RACOTI

calin.racoti@cdep.ro

www.cdep.ro