Newsletter

• Our next virtual breakfast on 26/03/21 and other interesting events
• Collecting community feedback to our new definition of “digital-ready policies”
• Explore Leos

If you would like your project or event to figure in our next newsletter, don’t hesitate to provide your input here or contact us directly.

Thank you to those who have already replied to our survey and provided very interesting topics they want to share with the community in the future (judicial documents exchange, Rule as code, digital evolution of parliament, data control and data consistency, guidance on digitalisation friendly legislation, etc.)! Would you mind reaching out to us, as we forgot to ask for your email in the survey 😊?

The legal interoperability team

Join us on 26 March for our March Virtual Breakfast on AI-powered screening tools for digital-ready legislation.

In this month's edition of our virtual breakfast, we will discuss the benefits of screening legislation for digital-readiness and explore two ongoing AI-powered pilots: SeTA and Manylaws.

Click here to find out more about the event and to register by 24 March!

The ManyLaws project consortium invites you to participate to its final brief workshop, during which you will be given the opportunity to access, interact and evaluate, according to your needs, the ManyLaws portal facilitating advanced search, retrieval and visualization of legal data from three European legal contexts: Greece (Greek laws and parliamentary data), Austria (Austrian laws and parliamentary data) and Europe (EUR-Lex data).

Click here for more information and to register!

Join the CodeX 2021 FutureLaw event organised by Standford Law School on 8 April!

CodeX FutureLaw 2021 focuses on the way technology is changing the legal profession and the law itself, and the way these changes affect us all. The event will bring together academics, entrepreneurs, lawyers, investors, policymakers, and engineers spearheading the tech-driven transformation of our legal systems.

Find out more about the event here!

We are currently developing our approach to digital-ready policymaking, which will feed into the ongoing revision of the European Commission's Better Regulation Agenda. We want to find a clear definition and high-level recommendations that are easy to understand for policymakers.

We want your feedback! Check out our digital-ready policymaking page and provide your feedback or any relevant input directly in comment.

Are you dealing with the edition or publication of legal texts? Are you looking for an easy-to-use editing tool that provides guidance and quality control for writers?

Then check out LEOS - Legislation Editing Open Software, an open source software delivered under ISA² Action 2016.38 Legislation Interoperability Tools – LegIT.

Drafting new legislation is a complex and time-consuming process involving many actors. This process, with increasing pan-European dimensions, can be made easier with LEOS, a free tool that facilitates the editing/reviewing of legislative texts and generates legislation produced in a format supporting interoperability between European institutions and between Member States. LEOS enables users to create and draft legislative acts via a web user interface, where the document content is stored in an XML format.

For a short introduction to LEOS, you can check our “Getting started” information package.

For more technical details, you can check out the latest LEOS release here.

Last but not least, if you want to hear the feedback of some of the LEOS users, you can check the following reuse stories:

• LEOS as an educational tool for public administrators
• Testing EdiT, the European Commission instance of LEOS
• User from Spain: LEOS will help us make the drafting of legal texts more efficient

LEOS team : LegIT ISA² action

DIGIT-LEOS-FEEDBACK@ec.europa.eu

The European Commission is now evaluating the ISA² programme and the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) to present a reinforced public sector interoperability policy in 2021.

We are closely involved in the policy revision and during the first consulation activities, some stakeholders have already highlighted the role of digital-readyness of policies to foster interoperability.

What do you think should be the role of "digital-ready policymaking" in a future EU interoperabilty policy?

Read more about it here and take part in the public consultation to help us shape the future policy before 26 April 2021!