Dr Jonas Botta (NIPAG) heard as expert witness by the German Bundestag's Internal Affairs Committee

The Committee on Internal Affairs and the Interior of the German Bundestag invited Dr Jonas Botta (NIPAG Research Associate) as an expert. Dr Botta made his expertise in the fields of general administrative law, e-government law and constitutional law available to the Committee. The occasion was the Federal Government's proposed amendments to the Online Access Act (Onlinezugangsgesetz - OZG), the key law for the digital transformation of public administration in Germany. In his statement, Dr Botta advocated – in addition to the amendments already proposed – binding follow-up deadlines for the implementation of the OZG, a legal right to digital administration, independent monitoring, an optimised data protection cockpit and more digital participation.

The opinion on the draft legislation is available online here (in German only).