Connecting Europeans for Security, Justice and Freedom

1. 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 Martin.Schneider@bmj.gv.at DI(FH) Michael Glatz Senior IT-Architect Austrian Federal Computing Centre Michael.Glatz@brz.gv.at

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

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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. EU eJustice Portal – the prototype Why insolvency? - public access - free access - Europe-wide interest - quick results possible 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 Bundesministerium für Justiz

8. 26.7.07 2.8.07 9.8.07 16.8.07 23.8.07 30.8.07 First coordination with Germany about the scope of the prototype • Development of the EU eJustice Portal • Definition of the interfaces to the national systems • Development of the interfaces (Portlets and WebServices) Integration of the insolvency registers (Portlets) into the EU eJustice Portal five weeks Timeline... ... of the EU eJustice Portal prototype Bundesministerium für Justiz

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

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

11. 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

12. 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

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

14. 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 Martin.Schneider@bmj.gv.at DI(FH) Michael Glatz Senior IT-Architect Austrian Federal Computing Centre Michael.Glatz@brz.gv.at