ABSTRACT
The need to improve the quality of legislation is indeed the focus of a number of national and international initiatives. Legislative informatics is not limited to the study and development of computer applications for Parliaments. It also includes orchestrating, for the benefit of legislation, activities, applications and systems existing within Parliaments and outside of them. The personal computer (PC) enabled computing to enter all economical and social activities, and also all legal activities, from public administration, to the judiciary, to legislation and to private law practices. Though the functions of legislative information systems cannot be limited to the production and management of documents, a central feature of parliamentary information systems consists indeed in its ability to manage legislative documents. Moreover, the openness of the standard enables other actors to reuse and redistribute standard compliant documents, subsequently contributing to the knowledge of the law and to participation in the legislative process.
