Connecting Europeans for Security, Justice and Freedom EU eJustice Portal prototype – How a vision becomes reality Dr. Martin Schneider Director of Legal Information Austrian Ministry of Justice DI(FH) Michael Glatz Senior IT-Architect Austrian Federal Computing Centre

Bundesministerium für Justiz Connecting Europeans – why? There are many reasons: business friends shopping real estate culture marriage congresses job studying Most of them cause to have knowledge about other countries law, justice system and special legal facts.

Bundesministerium für Justiz Connecting Europeans – how? eJustice set common efforts in forcing exchange of information, connecting publishing media and making them public usable. EU eJustice portal is the project that turns this vision into reality.

Bundesministerium für Justiz EU eJustice Portal - vision Wikipedia says, Portal may refers to - Portal (architecture), an entrance - Portal (fiction) a thing used to transfer from one place to another - Portal (band), an independent progressive metal band from Canada The EU eJustice Portal should be the entrance to all EU-wide relevant topics on Justice. It should provide personalized capabilities to their visitors and should integrate distributed applications from a number of different sources.

Bundesministerium für Justiz portal interconnection (PI) The idea of PI – decentralized user authorization and authentication – more than one portal (e.g. one per memberstate) – portal-to-portal communication protocol The access to applications is based on mutual trust between the participating (national) portals! -> PI agreement

Bundesministerium für Justiz EU eJustice program Principles (as decided by the Council of Ministers of Justice and Interior) Decentralized system with interfaces (portal interconnection) Access to citizens, economic operators, practitoners of law, judicial authorities and courts Non-legislative nature Integration of existing initiatives Networking to following registers – Criminal records – Insolvency registers – Commercial and business registers – Land registers European payment order Use of video-conferencing Work carried out in an EU Council working group

Bundesministerium für Justiz EU eJustice Portal – the prototype Goals of this prototype - integration of the German and Austrian insolvency registers - the possibility to search in both (German and Austrian) insolvency registers with one query - to give you a hint, how an EU eJustice Portal could look like - to invite others to join the initiative Why insolvency? - public access - free access - Europe-wide interest - quick results possible

Bundesministerium für Justiz Timeline of the EU eJustice Portal prototypeprototype First coordination with Germany about the scope of the prototype Integration of the insolvency registers (Portlets) into the EU eJustice Portal Development of the EU eJustice Portal Definition of the interfaces to the national systems Development of the interfaces (Portlets and WebServices) five weeks

Bundesministerium für Justiz Extension of the portal pilot (the year 2008) Integrated insolvency registers (2007)  Germany  Netherlands  Portugal  Slovenia  Estonia  Austria  Italy  Czech Rep.  Latvia Observer of the „Portal Team“  Slovakia  Romania Integrated interpreter databases  Austria  Germany Integrated insolvency registers (2008)  Hungary  Poland  Spain  Lithuania

Bundesministerium für Justiz State of play of the portal pilot (02/2009) Already implemented functionality  search in eleven insolvency registers  Enhanced search (for two countries)  Multi-language support  New menu structure (filled with dummy content)  search in two interpreter databases Modern modular portal architecture  Content management  Account management  Portlet management  Security  Portal engine  Portal system management  Session management  Personalisation  integration of insolvency registers  EU-wide search in insolvency registers  to give you a hint, how a European e-Justice Portal could look like  to invite others to join the initiative Goals of the portal pilot (stated 2007)

Bundesministerium für Justiz Technical background 1/2 Enterprise Portalserver – Universal Access to public and private Information and Services – Java/J2EE Portalserver (JSR 168 Portlet Container) Portal Content Management System – Template based System Strict separation of Content, Design and Structure – Web-based User Interface – Ability for multi-language and multi-client environments – WYSIWIG Editor (Live Editor) Content Editor, Table Editor, Template Editor Preview of unpublished Site – WAI A-AAA – Integrated Version-Management

Bundesministerium für Justiz Technical background 2/2 Infrastructure – Parallel, redundant Infrastructure-Environment at two computer center locations – 7x24 h, Support Mo-Fr 7-17, – regular Service Downtime 4 Weekends/Year – Environment for Development, Test, Quality System and Production

Bundesministerium für Justiz You‘re invited to join our EU eJustice Portal initiative and put in your opinion and suggestions!

Connecting Europeans for Security, Justice and Freedom EU eJustice Portal prototype – How a vision becomes reality Dr. Martin Schneider Director of Legal Information Austrian Ministry of Justice DI(FH) Michael Glatz Senior IT-Architect Austrian Federal Computing Centre