LEGESE - Easing Participation in Legislative Processes
The implementation of European legislation at regional and local level has a major
impact on citizens’ lives, but few are aware or participate in the local implementation
of such legislation. LEGESE will address this by providing a service that is useful to
the Public Authorities and engaging to citizens.
LEGESE (www.legese.org) is an 18 month eParticipation Action project that will pilot
trial a new service to encourage easy communication and information exchange for effective
public participation in the legislation implementation phase of European initiated
legislation at the local and regional levels that are most directly relevant to most
citizens’ lives. LEGESE will provide easy access to and understanding of the huge body
of EU legislation that is the source and driver of much legislation that is implemented
at National and Regional level throughout Europe.
The LEGESE service will run on the established eParticipate Public-i platform that
centres on multimedia webcasting supported by contextual information and feedback
facilities, providing easily accessible legislative documents using the innovative
602 XML forms system, learning citizen-participation best-practice from the
experience of the award-winning Bristol Council e-Petitioner system and building
directly on the very successful eTEN eParticipate project and experience. The
LEGESE service will be easy to use, technically open and standardised to interface
with existing and future eGovernment systems. The service will be trialed for 9
months in 3 regions with very diverse local legislative implementation contexts
in the Czech Republic, France and the UK.
As a web-based service, LEGESE will complement and enhance at a regional level the
European Parliament’s own EPLive webcasting service and EPTV web television channel,
and provide future potential functional and citizen-centered e-participation enhancements
to those services.
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