Presented on 11 February 2021 at the 2020 virtual conference of the International Association of Legislation Research jointly conducted with Victoria Kalogirou, European Commission

1. Legal Informatics & Interoperability patterns
supporting the Greek Executive State
DR. FOTIS FITSILIS
SCIENTIFIC SERVICE, HELLENIC PARLIAMENT
VICTORIA KALOGIROU
PROGRAMME MANAGER/SECONDED NATIONAL EXPERT
DG-DIGIT, ISA2, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
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European Commission
ΒΟΥΛΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ

2. State of Play
National & International
Initiatives
Increase of
eGovernment Solutions
Greek Digital Strategy
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 Executive State:
Profound impact on
lawmaking and
governance
 Major goals:
Control the quality of
legislation and
implementation efficiency
via interoperability
mechanisms

3. Vision
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 Legal informatics as driver for systemic interoperability
 Proposal and definition of (inter-)national digital
framework
 Components (indicative): +
Strategy/people/functions/tech/enablers
‘an end-to-end user-centric ecosystem
of tools and services’
+ see e.g. Matt et al., 2015 and Gimpel et al., 2018

4. Tools under
develoment (Greece)
Standards
Training
Framework
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 ManyLaws.eu
 LEOS instance @ National School of
Government
 National codification portal
 Legal Council of the State IS
Prerequisites
Reuse of frameworks& tools
 European Interoperability Framework
 LEOS
 Ref2Link
 Core Vocabularies / ELI

5. IAL
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ec.europa.eu/isa2
ISA2@ec.europa.eu
@EU_ISA2
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/
DIGIT-JOINUP@ec.europa.eu
@Joinup_eu DIGIT-LEOS-FEEDBACK@ec.europa.eu
Examples of European
Commission Initiatives

6. Conclusions
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► Groundbreaking digital transformation under way
► Necessity of holistic approach and definition of framework
► Reuse of good practices and initiatives
► Favored app-based mobile-first approach
► User-centric: easy transition to citizen-centric approach
► Incorporation of disruptive technologies
► Greater uptaking of digital skills to support the Executive
State

7. Disclaimer
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The information and views set out in this presentation and
the proposed study are only those of the authors and do
not reflect the official opinion of European Commission
and/or the Hellenic Parliament.
fitsilisf@parliament.gr & victoria.kalogirou@ec.europa.eu