Welcome to

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Welcome to

• Interparlamentary EU Information Exchange

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Organisation

• 1.1 The Conference of the Speakers of European
  Union Parliaments
• EU Speakers lay down the objectives of IPEX

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• 1.2 Secretaries General of European Union
  Parliaments
• Oversee IPEX
• agree on the guidelines and on major changes to
  the IPEX system
• appoint members of the IPEX Board
• appoint the chairman of the IPEX Board among the
  ranks of the Secretaries General from Parliaments
  on the IPEX Board

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• 1.3 The IPEX Board
• ensures the ongoing and effective management
  and maintenance of the IPEX system
• monitors the IPEX web site
• oversees the Central Support Function
• meets once a year with the IPEX Correspondents
• is responsible for relations with the European
  Commission, other EU institutions and bodies
  outside the European Union
• submits an annual report to the Secretaries
  General about the current status of IPEX
• appoints the members and chair of the Central
  Support Function

• The Board consists of members representing
• The National Parliaments hosting the previous,
  current and upcoming Conference of the Speakers
  of European Union Parliaments (three)
• Other National Parliaments that wish to
  participate and are willing to contribute to the
  effective functioning of IPEX
• The European Parliament (one) COSAC and the
  ECPRD participate as associate members.

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• 1.4 The Central Support Function
• Daily maintenance of the IPEX web site
• Overall management of users
• Assistance to the IPEX Correspondents
• Technical and editorial changes and
  developments
• May upon the request of the parliament hosting
  the Speakers Conference assist in the updating
  and maintenance of the calendar of
  Interparliamentary cooperation
• Other tasks, assigned by the IPEX Board

• The Central Support Function comprises four
  members from national parliaments represented on
  the Board and one from the European Parliament.
  Other national parliaments may assist in the
  functioning of the Central Support.

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• 1.5 The IPEX Correspondents
• The IPEX Correspondents are responsible for the
  contributions from their parliament/chamber to
  the IPEX system.
• This includes responsibility for
• organising the input to the databases etc from
  their parliament/chamber
• the correctness of the links and other items
  of information about their
• parliament/chamber on the national part of the
  IPEX web site
• the management of users in their
  parliament/chamber
• IPEX information and support in their
  administration
• the exchange of best practices

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Guidelines for IPEX and more information about
using IPEX, under Info section
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EU Calendar

• IPEX also hosts a calendar of interparliamentary
  cooperation which contains information concerning
  all interparliamentary meetings relating to the
  European Union.

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EC Comments (1) or so-called Barrosos initiative

• The European Commission has begun the direct
  transmission of its comments on the opinions from
  national parliaments to IPEX.
• Since October 1, 2008 all comments from the
  European Commission to the national parliaments
  are available on this page.
• It is the responsibility of the national
  parliaments to upload the original opinions on
  the relevant national scrutiny page. To see the
  scrutiny page, click on the title in the box
• Comments of the European Commission....

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EC Comments (2)
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Links

• IPEX provides links to relevant websites and
  databases as well as links to EU relevant pages
  on the web-sites of national parliaments

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IPEX Notification (1)
Presentation to DG IPOL, 2009-03-13
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IPEX Notification (2)
Presentation to DG IPOL, 2009-03-13
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Key features of IPEX Website

• Navigator in English (EN) and French (FR)
• Searcher

To the right on the top of the Website
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Home Page
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Database

• EC Documents
• Dossiers
• Scrutiny
• Adopted legislation
• Advanced search

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1. EC Documents
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2. Dossiers
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3. Recent Scrutiny

• Follow up the scrutiny updates

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IPEX RSS feeds
Presentation to DG IPOL, 2009-03-13
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Scrutiny (2)
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4. Adopted legislation
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5. Advanced search
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Statistics
Presentation to DG IPOL, 2009-03-13
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IPEX developments XML feed
National Parliaments IT system
National Parliaments IT system
National Parliaments IT system
IPEX
National Parliaments IT system
Presentation to DG IPOL, 2009-03-13
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IPEX database
Send the file to IPEX
Two options for entering information into the
IPEX database
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Any question or comment can be addressed to the
Central Support

• centralsupport_at_ipex.eu
• Macarena Rodriguez Garcia
• IPEX Information Officer
• macarena.rodriguez_at_europarl.europa.eu
• Tel [phone]