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Evaluation of the Hamburg Transparency Act (HmbTG)
The Hamburg Transparency Act (Hamburgische Transparenzgesetz - HmbTG) came into force on 6 October 2012, replacing the previous Hamburg Freedom of Information Act (Hamburgische Informationsfreiheitsgesetz - HmbIFG) and further developing it in certain areas. The Hamburg Transparency Act (HmbTG) established the first comprehensive information act in Germany. It requires public bodies to proactively make certain information available to the public, not just on request, and to do so in a transparency portal as an information register. Personal data is protected throughout. Sec. 18(2), sentence 3 of the Hamburg Transparency Act (HmbTG) requires the Senate to review the application and effects of the Act no later than four years after its entry into force and to report on the results to the general public.
Evaluation of counter-terrorism regulations
Article 5 of the Act on the Extension of the Deadline for Regulations under the Anti-Terrorism Acts of 3 December 2015 states that the Federal Government shall evaluate the application of the provisions of the Act on the Protection of the Federal Constitution, the MAD Act, the BND Act and the Security Screening Act which were created and amended by the Anti-Terrorism Act, the Supplementary Anti-Terrorism Act and the Act Amending the Anti-Terrorism Act, with the assistance of one or more experts. It is of particular importance to consider the frequency and impact of the restrictions on fundamental rights associated with the powers of intervention, as well as the effectiveness of the relevant provisions. Following approval by the German Bundestag, the Federal Ministry of the Interior commissioned the National Institute for Public Administration Germany to undertake the evaluation project.
Consolidation and digitisation of guidance documents, guidance and manuals for the legislative process
The 'Federal Government's electronic legislative process' project comprises part of the effort to consolidate Federal Government services and aims to put the legislative process on new IT footing. The project aims to eliminate existing media breaks and redundancies in the process within and between the Federal Government, the German Bundestag, the German Bundesrat, the Mediation Committee and the Office of the Federal President, and to implement an end-to-end electronic legislative process. The objective is to conduct the legislative process at the federal level completely electronically, without media discontinuity and interoperably between all parties involved, in order to future-proof the legislative process and adapt it to current technological developments. The 'E-legislation' project is comprised of multiple sub-projects and products. The National Institute for Public Administration Germany is responsible for one of the sub-projects and is working on the consolidation and digitalisation of the numerous guidance documents, guidance and manuals available at federal level for the legislative process.
Impact of EU law/ECJ jurisprudence and ECHR/ECtHR jurisprudence on the civil service
There is a pressing need for research on the impact of EU law and the ECHR on the civil service in Germany. The National Institute for Public Administration Germany analyses relevant decisions of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights and draws up practical guidelines for administrative practice. These practical guidelines present the subject matter, the facts and the reasons for the decision in a concise form, evaluate and classify them in terms of European law, and consider the implications for German law.
Economic specification of the recent jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court on the calculation of remuneration; Methodology and creation of a database
In its rulings on A- and R-remuneration (2015), the Federal Constitutional Court established, for the first time, concrete economic parameters that enable the calculation of remuneration appropriate to the office in question. In a three-step procedure, the appropriateness of remuneration is first determined on the basis of an examination of precisely quantifiable comparison parameters. These include the income development of employees subject to collective wage agreements, the nominal wage index as an index of overall economic income development, the consumer price index/real income development, the prohibition of disparities between remuneration groups/experience levels and the social minimum wage, and comparisons with the Federal Government and the other Federal States. In the second step, the presumption can then be confirmed or refuted by means of further criteria. In the third step, the question of whether a determined undernourishment can be justified by the existence of special conditions, such as a household emergency, is then examined.
Examination of the performance of selected tasks at all levels of direct state administration and the local sector in Rhineland-Palatinate
The research project is a sub-project of an expert report on the further investigation of the reform at local authority and administrative level in Rhineland-Palatinate. The overarching objective of the report is to provide policy-makers with a sound basis for the second phase of the reform at local government and administrative level in Rhineland-Palatinate. The project's core focus is an examination of selected tasks of the direct state administration and the local government administrations in order to assess their suitability for the envisaged task structure. Thematic areas of investigation include environment, agriculture, forestry and food; finance, construction and housing; justice and consumer protection; and economy, climate protection, energy and regional planning.
Optimisation of hearing procedures in planning approval procedures for federal railway operating facilities
The National Institute for Public Administration Germany has prepared a report for the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur - BMVI) on the optimisation of hearing procedures in planning approval procedures for federal railway operating facilities. Based on a synthesis of quantitative and qualitative data, the study identifies the underlying issues and causes of delays in the implementation of the hearing procedure in railway planning approval procedures and the directly related procedural steps.
Algorithm Control in the Internet of Things as a consumer policy protection mechanism
The research project was funded by a third party and conducted as part of the programme 'Promotion of innovation in consumer protection in law and commerce - Consumer-related research on the Internet of Things' of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV). The project was funded by the BMJV in accordance with a resolution passed by the German Bundestag. Its management was entrusted to the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung - BLE) within the framework of the 'Innovation promotion programme'.
Concept for the development of a legislative impact assessment tool to measure miscellaneous costs in enterprises
The quantitative impact assessment of federal legislation is primarily concerned with the documentation of compliance costs, which must be explicitly stated in the draft regulations proposed by the Federal Government for the Cabinet Draft. In accordance with Article 2 of the Act on the establishment of a national regulatory watchdog (Gesetz zur Einsetzung eines Nationalen Normenkontrollrates - NKRG), it represents 'the total measurable time and costs incurred by the public, the economy and the public administration as a result of complying with a federal legal provision'. The precise specifications of the compliance burden are delineated in the 'Guidance for determining and presenting the compliance burden in the Federal Government's regulatory projects'. However, some costs are not included, which can represent a significant economic burden for the enterprises concerned. Therefore, the non-profit 'Foundation for Family Businesses' commissioned the National Institute for Public Administration German to identify costs that are not or insufficiently considered in the current practice of estimating compliance costs.
Investigation into the prevalence of violence against public sector workers and possible courses of action
The National Institute for Public Administration Germany was commissioned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community to investigate the prevalence of violence against public sector employees. The aim of the project was to create a factual basis for the development of sustainable and differentiated strategies for dealing with violence against public sector employees, as there are currently no comprehensive figures on assaults on public servants and no systematic overview of practical experience with approaches to curbing violence. The project was conducted by the National Institute for Public Administration Germany in close cooperation with the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB) and the German Civil Service Federation (dbb).
