Connecting Europeans for Security, Justice and Freedom

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1 Connecting Europeans for Security, Justice and Freedom EU ejustice Portal prototype How a vision becomes reality Dr. Martin Schneider Director of Legal Information Austrian Ministry of Justice Martin.Schneider@bmj.gv.at DI(FH) Michael Glatz Senior IT-Architect Austrian Federal Computing Centre Michael.Glatz@brz.gv.at

2 Connecting Europeans why? There are many reasons: job business culture marriage shopping studying real estate friends congresses Most of them cause to have knowledge about other countries law, justice system and special legal facts.

3 Connecting Europeans how? ejustice set common efforts in forcing exchange of information, connecting publishing media and making them public usable. EU ejustice portal is the project that turns this vision into reality.

4 EU ejustice Portal - vision Wikipedia says, Portal may refers to - Portal (architecture), an entrance - Portal (fiction) a thing used to transfer from one place to another - Portal (band), an independent progressive metal band from Canada The EU ejustice Portal should be the entrance to all EU-wide relevant topics on Justice. It should provide personalized capabilities to their visitors and should integrate distributed applications from a number of different sources.

5 portal interconnection (PI) The idea of PI decentralized user authorization and authentication more than one portal (e.g. one per memberstate) portal-to-portal communication protocol The access to applications is based on mutual trust between the participating (national) portals! -> PI agreement

6 EU ejustice program Principles (as decided by the Council of Ministers of Justice and Interior) Decentralized system with interfaces (portal interconnection) Access to citizens, economic operators, practitoners of law, judicial authorities and courts Non-legislative nature Integration of existing initiatives Networking to following registers Criminal records Insolvency registers Commercial and business registers Land registers European payment order Use of video-conferencing Work carried out in an EU Council working group

7 EU ejustice Portal the prototype Why insolvency? - public access - free access - Europe-wide interest - quick results possible Goals of this prototype - integration of the German and Austrian insolvency registers - the possibility to search in both (German and Austrian) insolvency registers with one query - to give you a hint, how an EU ejustice Portal could look like - to invite others to join the initiative

8 Timeline of the EU ejustice Portal prototype First coordination with Germany about the scope of the prototype Development of the EU ejustice Portal Definition of the interfaces to the national systems Development of the interfaces (Portlets and WebServices) five weeks Integration of the insolvency registers (Portlets) into the EU ejustice Portal

9 Extension of the portal pilot (the year 2008) Integrated insolvency registers (2007) Austria Germany Integrated insolvency registers (2008) Slovenia Netherlands Slovakia Czech Rep. Italy Romania Portugal Estonia Latvia Integrated interpreter databases Austria Germany Observer of the Portal Team Hungary Poland Spain Lithuania

10 State of play of the portal pilot (02/2009) Already implemented functionality search in eleven insolvency registers Enhanced search (for two countries) New menu structure (filled with dummy content) Modern modular portal architecture Goals of the portal pilot (stated 2007) to give you a hint, how a European e-justice Portal could look like to invite others to join the initiative search in two interpreter databases Multi-language support Content management Account management Portlet management Security Portal engine Portal system management Session management Personalisation EU-wide search in insolvency registers integration of insolvency registers

11 Technical background 1/2 Enterprise Portalserver Universal Access to public and private Information and Services Java/J2EE Portalserver (JSR 168 Portlet Container) Portal Content Management System Template based System Strict separation of Content, Design and Structure Web-based User Interface Ability for multi-language and multi-client environments WYSIWIG Editor (Live Editor) Content Editor, Table Editor, Template Editor Preview of unpublished Site WAI A-AAA Integrated Version-Management

12 Technical background 2/2 Infrastructure Parallel, redundant Infrastructure-Environment at two computer center locations 7x24 h, Support Mo-Fr 7-17, regular Service Downtime 4 Weekends/Year Environment for Development, Test, Quality System and Production

13 You re invited to join our EU ejustice Portal initiative and put in your opinion and suggestions!

14 Connecting Europeans for Security, Justice and Freedom EU ejustice Portal prototype How a vision becomes reality Dr. Martin Schneider Director of Legal Information Austrian Ministry of Justice Martin.Schneider@bmj.gv.at DI(FH) Michael Glatz Senior IT-Architect Austrian Federal Computing Centre Michael.Glatz@brz.gv.at