Legal materials
Legal materials are a systematic collection of documents that document a legislative process in a legislative body and thus the history of a law .
Legal materials are published in particular on laws promulgated at a later date, but also documented on laws that have not been adopted. In addition to publicly accessible materials such as the draft laws in the Federal German Documentation and Information System for Parliamentary Processes (DIP), there are also documents that are not intended for publication, such as committee minutes and other committee materials, statements by experts, formulation aids, reports, submissions from associations and comparable documents.
The German state parliaments maintain information portals comparable to the DIP.
During the legislative process, the legal materials are the basis for intra-parliamentary information and advice. After the announcement, they can document compliance with the legislative procedure, for example to check the legislative competence in a standard control . They are also used for the historical interpretation of the law in question as well as for legal or political science, but also historical research.
In Austria there is the Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria (RIS).
In Switzerland, the legal materials belong to the official documents according to Art. 5 of the Freedom of Information Act and must be made accessible to everyone.
literature
- Christian Waldhoff: "The legislature owes nothing but the law." On the old and new obligations of the parliamentary legislator to give reasons. In: Festschrift for Josef Isensee, 2007, p. 325 ff.
- Uwe Kischel: The reason. To explain state decisions to the citizen. Mohr Siebeck , 2003, ISBN 978-3-16-147901-4 .
Web links
- Christian Waldhoff : Legal materials from a constitutional perspective, Humboldt University , 2012
- Kurt Georg Wernicke : Parliamentary documentation in Bonn without a year, 36 pp.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legal documentation website of the German Bundestag , accessed on April 4, 2017
- ↑ Examples: Printed matter and protocols website of the Bavarian State Parliament; Parliamentary documents ( Memento of the original from 10 November 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament, accessed on April 4, 2017
- ↑ BVerfG, judgment of October 24, 2002 - 2 BvF 1/01 marginal no. 154, 158 f .; BVerfGE 111, 225
- ↑ Laurenz Rotach: Access to the materials of the legislative process. LeGes 2008, pp. 245-269. Link for download ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Swiss Federal Chancellery , accessed on April 4, 2017
