1. 19/11/2010RACOTI, Calin-Mihai ECPRD-ITC 2010 Customer Request or End- Result? IT/Web-based (Inter)Parliamentary Activities ECPRD Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Information and Communication Technology Bucharest, 18 -20 November 2010

2. The Department for Parliamentary Research and EU Law (1) Specialized structure within the General Secretariat of the Chamber of Deputies; It offers general and custom-made information materials, support and expertise in various areas; 2 components: EU Law Division and Legislative Studies and Documentation Division

3. The Department for Parliamentary Research and EU Law (2) EU Law Division, 3 Units a. EU Policies Unit b. EU Law and Jurisprudence Unit c. European Databases Management and Translations Office The Office - is liaising with the EP&EU institutions, IPEX, European Law Database, translations of EU related documents

4. Documents received by NPs Following Protocol No.1 TL, NPs will receive: a. EC consultation documents – White & Green Papers + Annual Legislative Program & any other policy or planning documents; b. Draft legislative acts – EC proposals, initiatives from a group of MS, initiatives from the EP, requests from the Court of Justice, recommendations from the ECB and requests from the EIB for the adoption of a legislative act; For transmission of documents – dedicated e- mail accounts

5. European Law Database Broad concept- repository of EU law draft documents Narrow use – ease filing, handling & use of (multilingual) documents Role – raise awareness, offer insight into EU process’, ease reference Construction – open access section / restricted for internal use

12. Future Developments of the System and Correlation with IPEX Automated notification of relevant Parliamentary Committees Clustering of documents into Dossiers/Thematic Files Extended array of variables/searchable Web-based Inter-parliamentary Cooperation: open/private forums, videoconferences, standard templates for documents, communication & publications

13. Thank you! Calin-Mihai RACOTI calin.racoti@cdep.ro www.cdep.ro