19/11/2010 RACOTI, Calin-Mihai ECPRD -ITC 2010 Customer Request or End- Result? IT/Web-based (Inter)Parliamentary Activities ECPRD Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Information and Communication Technology Bucharest, 18 -20 November 2010
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
www.cdep.ro