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It has long been a commonplace that the European Union forms a community of law and that the principle of “integration through law” is one of its central characteristics. In view of the growing scope and complexity of Union law, which requires ever new adaptations from the Member States, research on the implementation of Union law, which also works empiri-cally, is gaining considerable importance. An international research project conducted at the German Research Institute for Public Administration was dedicated to the implementation and adaptation strategies of selected EU Member States. It investigated the transposition of organisational and procedural requirements for national administrations as laid down in EU directives related to environmental and energy policy. The investigation focused on various modalities of transposition: minimum transposition (“copy out”), the enactment of provisions that create obligations going beyond the requirements of the Directive (“gold-plating”) and the extension of the rules or principles of the Directive to other fields of law (“spill-over”), either by including a subject area not provided for in the Directive in the scope of application of the transposition provisions (spill-over in the narrow sense) or by fundamentally reforming a legal area on the occasion of the Directive (spill-over in the broad sense). The comparative analysis revealed a low degree of strategic use of transposition modalities. However, there is a growing awareness among Member States that they belong not only to a law community, but also to an implementation community. This is not least due to the mechanisms and procedures of intertwining Union and national action.
Die Quellen-TKÜ ist grundrechtsdogmatisch gleichsam ein Sandwichkind zwischen Tele-kommunikationsüberwachung und Online-Durchsuchung. Mit ihrer kleinen Schwester, der Telekommunikationsüberwachung, teilt sie die Eigenschaft, auf die gleichen Kommunika-tionsdaten, nämlich zu übermittelnde Inhalte, zuzugreifen. Mit ihrer großen Schwester, der Online-Durchsuchung hat sie gemeinsam, das gesamte Endgerät zu infiltrieren. Anders als diese darf sie aber nicht das Gesamtsystem ausspähen, sondern ausschließlich „laufende Kommunikation“ überwachen. Wie sich dies technisch gewährleisten lässt, damit die Quellen-TKÜ nicht in eine Online-Durchsuchung umschlägt, präzisieren die Ermächtigungsnormen bislang nur ungenügend. Der Beitrag sucht nach grundrechtsdogmatisch tragfähigen Antworten auf die verfassungsrechtlichen Problemlagen und legt den Finger in offene Wunden der gesetzlichen Regelungen.
The notion of civil service in Europe: establishing an analytical framework for comparative study
(2021)
Comparative study of the employment regimes of public officials in European countries requires an appropriate analytical framework, including definitions. This blog entry explores the meaning and scope of terms “civil service” and “civil servant”. It argues that a civil servant is an employee of the executive power, who has special duties and responsibilities, and should often meet specific requirements.
The article explains the current state of affairs concerning the freedom of press in Poland
Electoral Disinformation and Summary Judicial Proceedings: Is the Polish Experience Relevant?
(2021)
In Poland special summary (24-hour) judicial proceedings against electoral disinformation were introduced in 1998. Although it has been successfully used to declare that information disseminated during an electoral campaign is false, it has not attracted much attention and
is generally absent from the current legal scholarship and international reports on electoral disinformation.
Against this backdrop, the post aims to critically analyze the Polish regulatory model con-cerning summary judicial proceedings. The implications of these mechanisms become even more complex when we consider that in mid-2019 the European Court of Human Rights found Poland for the third time in breach of the right to freedom of expression (Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights) for having convicted the applicant in these extraordinary 24 -hour judicial proceedings.
Wie kann zukünftig sichergestellt werden, dass Gesetze mit einem digitalen bzw. (teil)automatisierten Verwaltungsvollzugsprozess kompatibel sind? Hierfür muss der Hebel bereits bei der Entwurfsphase von Gesetzen und Verordnungen angesetzt werden. So lautete eine Kernaussage unseres Impulspapiers »Recht Digital«, in dem wir einige der Voraussetzungen dargestellt haben, die für automationstaugliche Rechtsnormen berücksichtigt werden sollten.
Zulassungsverfahren für Künstliche Intelligenz – Über IT-Regulierung, Impfstoffe und Covid-Tests
(2021)
Bevor ein Patient ein Medikament einnimmt, muss aufgrund umfangreicher Tests feststehen, dass die Risiken beherrschbar sind. Warum aber dürfen Betriebssysteme, Smartphones und Smart-Home-Devices ohne unabhängige Vorabprüfung auf den Markt? Für Hochrisiko-KI schlägt die EU nun einen neuen Weg ein, um riskante Technologien künftig zu regulieren.
For centuries, export control regulations have accompanied the development of new weapon technologies. The revelations of the ‘Pegasus Project’ have put the question of whether and how to regulate the export of the new technology ‘cyberweapons’ in the limelight: Is the current international export control law up to the challenge of sufficiently regulating the proliferation of ‘cyberweapons’ or does it need an update? To answer this question, the blog post will, first, turn to the definition and relevance of ‘cyberweapons’. Secondly, international export control law is introduced as a possible measure to mitigate the risks posed by ‘cyberweapons’ against the backdrop of regulating the use of ‘cyberweapons’ or establishing a moratorium on its trade. Third, the blog post will assess the export of ‘cyberweapons’ in general and the export of Pegasus in particular within the current international export control framework. The current framework seems to touch upon partial aspects of the trade with ‘cyberweapons’. However, it stands to fear that it is not up to the task of sufficiently curtailing the proliferation of ‘cyberweapons’ and the associated risks, as it especially leaves the underlying problem of the trade with zero-day vulnerabilities untouched.
Brexit means Brexit
(2021)
The essay examines changes in German law on administrative procedure recently introduced to address the challenge of digitization. This reform was undertaken in the framework of the very complex German legal system, which has federal structure, as well as the so-called “three pillars” of general administrative, financial and social security procedures, and a tradition of homogeneous development. The article also investigates the links between administrative procedural law and the legislation on e-government, as well as the problem of the poor interoperability of the IT systems of the various levels of government (Federation, Länder and Municipalities), that the (federal) law on online access to public services proposes to solve. Finally, the potential and limits of digitization of administrative procedure are examined, distinguishing binding and routine measures (easily automated) from the new frontiers of artificial intelligence.
Auf dem Weg zum Kunden: Die Deutsche Rentenversicherung vereinfacht ihre Bescheide und Formulare
(2021)
Die Bescheide der Deutschen Rentenversicherung verändern ihr Gesicht. Damit Versicherte und Rentner die Entscheidungen der Rentenversicherung besser nachvollziehen können, werden sie verständlicher, übersichtlicher und persönlicher. Der Beitrag, ursprünglich eine Poster-Präsentation, beschreibt die Reise eines interdisziplinären Teams der Deutschen Rentenversicherung und die wichtigsten Meilensteine des Weges.
The hybrid EPPO structure is operating under a hybrid set of fundamental rights, thus calling into question the well-established principle of the single set of norms applicable throughout criminal proceedings. Moreover, the system is characterized by a distortion of the commonly applied logical link between liability for violations of fundamental rights and control over the actions entailing those violations. EU Member States risk being held accountable under the Convention for actions on behalf of the EPPO which they did not fully control and which were subject to a different corpus of fundamental rights. The EU, for its part, takes the risk of seeing EPPO prosecutions being invalidated by domestic courts applying a Convention protection level which may be higher than the Union level. The only way to minimize the impact of these distortions is for the EU to become a Contracting Party to the Convention, along with its own Member States. This would do away with the ambivalence of the legal framework characterizing the protection of fundamental rights under the EPPO Regulation. It would also contribute to a better implementation of the principles of the rule of law and procedural fairness, advocated by the Regulation itself. Such a move would seem all the more important in light of the fact that if the EPPO proves successful, its competence might be extended in the future to other areas.