Albania’s Parliament presents new e-legislation platform

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Swiss Ambassador in Albania Ruth Huber speaking at the presentation of the E-legislation platform. © Bledar Hasimi / Kuvendi i Shqipërisë

Albania’s Speaker of Parliament Elisa Spiropali called it a milestone for modernizing law making and aligning with EU standards.

While Swiss Ambassador in Albania Ruth Huber stated: “Our joint work has achieved more than just a technical success. It has opened a new chapter in lawmaking in Albania: one of innovation and digitalization. Switzerland’s support to the Parliament through our OSCE partners aims exactly at making lawmaking more modern, open, and responsible, through digital means. Eventually, this makes citizens have more trust and more engagement”.

The new portal will help MPs work more efficiently with real-time information and will also give citizens, the media, and the public a way to follow and participate in the lawmaking process. At this testing phase it hosts over 300 laws and this will continue to expand.

OSCE Ambassador Michel Tarran stated that that long term success depends on full parliamentary ownership. All partners – including the EU Ambassador Silvio Gonzato – agreed that financial sustainability needs to be ensured by Albanian authorities.

Strengthening good governance is a key aim of the Swiss cooperation programme in Albania and this initiative is part of that. It is also a requirement by the EU in view of the country’s EU accession process.