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

– 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

Regional Cooperation

• 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

Exchange of Legal Information

Design and implementation principles:

1. Use of Internet, through the PABSEC Web Portal

2. Use of distributed relational database

3. Contents of database supervised by the Coordinating Council

4. SELI teams in each parliament

5. Full-text (in the original language)

6. Summary&indexing terms (in English)

• 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 Cooperation

European ParliamentsResearch Initiative - Watch

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.

European CooperationEuropean Parliaments Research Initiative – COM

• 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

• Annual Directors’ Meeting• Executive Council• Membership Committee• Technical Committee• National GLIN Stations• Associated Stations

International CooperationGLIN Structure

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

International Cooperation

• 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

Conclusions