Control of politicians
— #15 Creating legislative trace from the records in the public electronic diary
Information from politicians’ electronic diaries related to law-making, executive decision-making, including meetings, time spent on the elaboration of laws or decisions etc., should be published as an attachment to the draft law or decision, and thus, generate so-called legislative or administrative footprint.
If the information from the electronic public diary were attached as a so-called legislative or administrative trace to draft laws, citizens could effectively control that laws are being developed in the public interest and not in the interest of a certain small group of individuals or companies.
Sources:
- OECD: The 10 Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying, 2013, principle 6
- Information about a further action in the area of lobbying regulation in the Czech Republic and principles for the proposal of an Act on lobbying, str. 8
- Analysis of the Green Circle – Legislative amendments of deputies, Rekonstrukce státu, 2013, p. 17
- Conclusions of the expert tables on lobbying, Respect Institute - Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic - Lenka Andrýsová, 2011, p. 8
- Weiss, T., Reinforcing the transparency of the legislative process in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Europeum, Institue for European Policy, p. 6
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 2: Monitoring of lobbied politicians through public electronic diary, December 2013
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