1. 2. Juni 20061 Legal information system, authentic publication and the process of law making

2. 2. Juni 20062 Principles  Automation of law making: E-Recht  Publication: Legal information system (RIS)  Authentic publication: Function of RIS

3. 2. Juni 20063 Automation of making federal laws  Electronic editing of documents  Electronic workflow system between all stakeholders  Output for authentic publication in the Internet

4. 2. Juni 20064 Benefits  Sets standards for  Production of documents  Processes  Increases flexibility  Tracks modifications and controls versions  Speeds up production time  Reduces production costs

5. 2. Juni 20065 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

6. 2. Juni 20066 Legislative workflow Ministry generates legislative text 1 Public examination of drafts 2 electronic law making BKA generates and publishes bill of the government 4 Transfer to the council of ministers 3 Parliament gets bill of the government & puts decision 5 BKA gets decision 6 Output to RIS 7

7. 2. Juni 20067 D7.2 Example: Workflow "Bundesgesetz"  eJustice http://rechtsinformatik.jura.uni-sb.de/ejustice/lexecute/start.html

8. 2. Juni 20068 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

9. 2. Juni 20069  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 Which legal texts?

10. 2. Juni 200610 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

11. 2. Juni 200611 Output from RIS  Web interface  Internet to the public, Intranet to civil servants  Output formats for most documents  HTML  XML  DOC  RTF  PDF

12. 2. Juni 200612 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

13. 2. Juni 200613 Thank you for your attention harald.hoffmann@metadat.com