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Participation of the Chamber of Deputies in inter-parliamentary cooperation projects at regional, European, and at international levels. ECPRD - ICT Working Group Meeting 2010 Bucharest, Parliament of Romania, 18-19 November 2010 Dan Chiri ţă. Regional Cooperation. Established in 1993
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Participation of theChamber of Deputies in inter-parliamentary cooperation projects at regional, European, and at international levels ECPRD - ICT Working Group Meeting 2010 Bucharest, Parliament of Romania, 18-19 November 2010 Dan Chiriţă
Regional Cooperation • Established in 1993 • Currently includes 12 member countries • Formed of 76 members of parliament • Standing committee • Committee on Economic, Commercial, Technological and Environmental Affairs • Committee on Legal And Political Affairs • Committee on Cultural, Educational and Social Affairs
Exchange of Legal Information • 1994 – ICT Divisions Representatives • 1996 – Agreement on Cooperation for the Exchange of Legal Information • 2000 – First Meeting of the Coordinating Council • 2001 – PABSEC Information System for the Exchange of Legal Information
Design and implementation principles: • Use of Internet, through the PABSEC Web Portal • Use of distributed relational database • Contents of database supervised by the Coordinating Council • SELI teams in each parliament • Full-text (in the original language) • Summary&indexing terms (in English)
European Cooperation • Information and communication service that promotes advanced communications technologies and services to Parliamentarians and other political decision-makers • Exchange of information on the adopted and foreseen legislative measures in Romania with respect to approximation to Internal Market legislation of the European Union • Direct communication links between Members of Parliaments in the European Union and Members of Parliaments from accession candidate countries European Parliaments Research Initiative - Watch
European Cooperation European Parliaments Research Initiative – COM Platform for the dialogue between the ACTS community and political decision makers in Europe. Key objectives: • present the activities and results of the ACTS Programme to political decision makers in Europe; • establish a trans-European information and communication service on the basis of a multimedia information service for parliaments in the CEEC, the EU (EP and national parliaments) and the North Atlantic Assembly; • facilitate direct communications between Eastern and Western Parliamentarians and policy makers.
International Cooperation • International project for the exchange of legal information • 36 Contributing Members from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America. Includes the United Nations and the Organization of American States • 10 Associate Members – universities, NGOs • 2 Supporting Members: Law Library of Congress, Inter-American Development Bank
International Cooperation GLIN Structure • Annual Directors’ Meeting • Executive Council • Membership Committee • Technical Committee • National GLIN Stations • Associated Stations
International Cooperation GLIN is a multi-lingual searchable online database containing the following categories of legal documents for jurisdictions around the world: • Laws • Judicial Decisions • Legislative Records • Legal Literature
International Cooperation GLIN.Romania Team • Chamber of Deputies joined the project in 1996 • Contributed more than 8,000 legal acts • Participated in the Executive Council (two consecutive terms) • Chairs the Technical Committee
Conclusions • Facilitated EU accession process • Increase legal research and documentation resources • Increase legal system visibility • Provide examples for design and implementation of legal information system • Enable know-how transfer in ICT