IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ONCE ONLY PRINCIPLE IN A MARITIME DOMAIN

The document entitled Study on eGovernment and the Reduction of Administrative Burden indicates three ways to reduce administrative burdens in Europe: implementation of the once-only principle, simplification and personalisation strategies and digital-by-default strategies. The implementation of the once-only principle should be the first step towards reducing administrative burdens, as this principle lays the foundations for the other two strategies. Without the implementation of the once-only principle, it will not be possible to simplify administrative procedures for citizens and businesses, nor will it be possible to digitalize them. Numerous measures are being taken in Europe to put the once-only principle into practice, but they primarily focus on the implementation of this principle at the national level. For the first time, the TOOP project undertook to develop a technical solution that will enable the implementation of the once-only principle at the European (cross-border) level. What is important, this solution will be practically tested by the countries participating in the project.The fact that implementation of the once-only principle is becoming a priority in the EU, as evidenced by the fact that this principle is included in the Proposal for a Regulation on establishing a Single Digital Gateway should be assessed positively. Combining the efforts undertaken at the European Commission level within the framework of proposed legislative initiatives and in the Member States under the projects such as the TOOP project should bring visible benefits for citizens and entrepreneurs in the near future. The scale of these benefits can be very huge, as is shown by estimates indicating that the implementation of the once-only principle in Europe could generate annual savings of €5 billion

Blood and saliva-derived exomes from healthy Caucasian subjects do not display overt evidence of somatic mosaicism

Somatic mosaicism is a normal occurrence during development in the tissues and organs. As part of establishing a “healthy population “(HP) background or base-line, we investigated whether such mosaicism can be routinely detected in the circulating DNA secured from a rigorously designed healthy human liquid biopsy clinical trial (saliva, blood). We deployed next generation (NG) whole exome sequencing (WES) at median exome coverage rates of 97.2 % (-to-30x) and 70.0 % (-to-100x). We found that somatic mosaicism is not detectable by such standard bulk WES sequencing assays in saliva and blood DNA in 24 normal healthy Caucasians of both sexes from 18 to 60 years of age. We conclude that for circulating DNA using standard WES no novel somatic mutational variants can be detected in protein-coding regions of normal healthy subjects. This implies that the extent within normal tissues of somatic mosaicism must be at a lower level, below the detection threshold, for these circulating DNA WES read depths. © 2020 The Author(s

Application of Process Modelling and Simulation to Evaluate Administrative Burdens at the Law-Making Stage

Part 4: Legal IssuesInternational audienceThe number of the legal regulations is increasing, which implies additional administrative burdens for entrepreneurs. Evaluation of the legal acts efficiency in terms of administrative burdens, is usually conducted after the adoption of provisions. Improvement of existing legislation is a difficult and time-consuming task. Therefore, the aim of conducted research was to develop a method permitting the assessment of administrative burdens in the course of law-making. We propose to apply techniques of business process modelling and reengineering to improve quality of law during law-making. The main contribution of the article is a method based on application of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to design processes introduced by the legal acts. The presented method, due to application of modeling and simulation analysis, permits to precisely assess administrative burdens following from the regulations. The method enables to compare different variants of a legal regulation planned to be established. The presented method was practically applied to the process of registration of a civil law partnership in Poland. It was proved within the conducted research that the process redesigning permits to cut significantly the costs and duration of process both for entrepreneurs and public administration. Due to application of the proposed method the precise data was received, which enabled to compare the costs of burdens in the different variants of the regulations implementation. This case empirically confirmed that application of our method could enhance the quality of public processes regulated by legislation

Zur Komplexitaet des Verlaufs von Braenden in Bauwerken -Sensitivitaetsanalyse

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Application of business process modelling and reengineering to law making process in Poland

Effectiveness of services provided by the governmental institutions is determined by the quality of established law. The number of the adopted regulations is increasing but their quality is going down. Improvement of existing legislation is a time-consuming and difficult task. We propose to apply techniques of business process modeling and reengineering to im-prove quality of law in the course of law-making. The main contribution of the article is a me-thod based on application of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to design processes introduced by the legal acts. Due to application of this method, processes regulated by legisla-tions could be failure-free and effective. This method permits to indicate how proposed amend-ments affect the regulated processes. The method was practically implemented and validated during process of law-making in Poland. This case empirically confirmed that application of our method could enhance the quality of public processes regulated by legislation