Seal
April 11th, 2007
Legislation drafting is a complex process that takes place in a political and dynamic environment usually involving many stakeholders. Since a new or adapted piece of law often is connected to existing laws the drafters and other stakeholders should be aware of relationships between the law under construction and those existing legal sources. Legal drafting practice has learned that legal quality can benefit from the use of specific legal drafting patterns.
In the SEAL project we will provide the stakeholders involved in legislation drafting with a supporting environment that enables easy construction of legal drafts using drafting patterns and creation of connections from and to existing legal sources. The infrastructure will contain a repository with existing laws, draft versions and amendments and offer easy to use access methods.
Collaboration between stakeholders will be supported by groupware facilities such as automated signalling functions and routing of drafts and amendments.
With the SEAL supporting environment we will improve cooperation between members of parliament and legislation drafters. The SEAL environment will be based upon open standards and improve exchange between the European legislative processes and national and municipal legislative processes. It will allow for citizen consultation processes.
The project includes three parliaments. An initial working environment is foreseen medio 2007.
This working environment will be tested, refined and implemented in cooperation with the parliaments and legislation drafters during the project.
Website: http://www.eu-participation.eu
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