E-Gesetzgebung

E-legislation is a web application developed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Homeland as part of the Service Consolidation Programme. It is intended to portray the federal legislative process from drafting drafts through voting and submission to the German Bundestag and Bundesrat to handing over to the promulgation bodies in a fully digital, non-media-free and interoperable manner.

E-legislation is divided into the products Platform, Editor, Bundestag Platform and Content Data Standard LegalDocML.de, with the first publication focusing on Open Code. It embeds all applications of e-legislation. This includes the creation of regulatory projects (the RV application), the possibility to coordinate internally and across departments (HRA application) and the preparation and coordination of timetables (ZEIT application). In addition, the platform provides the relevant work aids for the legislative process (BIB), the electronic preparation of draft legislation (before) for the substantive preparation of regulatory proposals, the electronic procedural assistant (eViR) as a step-by-step follow-up by the legislative process and the electronic legislative impact assessment (EGFA) for systematic recording and evaluation of the consequences of the legislation.
The full version of the e-legislation is only available in the federal networks and after registration. For the public, a look behind the scenes is possible, with selected functions to be tested. Electronic Sustainability Impact Assessment (ENAP), ZEIT, evor, eViR and BIB applications are available here.
The e-legislation will be agile and new functionalities will be provided in six-monthly releases by the end of 2024. With the release of April 2023, the products have experienced a final, stand-alone increase in the functionality of the work aids and content data standard. The involvement of the German Bundestag started in May 2023 and will be completed by the end of 2025. Publication on Open Code promotes digital sovereignty by making e-legislation developments transparent and usable by federal and supranational bodies and interested third parties. Currently, the repository of E-legislation offers the programme code of the release April 2022 version of the platform and the work aids for viewing, as well as the content data standard LegalDocML.de in version 1.5. In autumn 2023, the publication of the source code of the editor as well as the latest versions of the platform and work aids is planned, and the publication of version 1.6 of the Content Data Standard in December 2023. In the future, the programme code will also be made available as a download package.