Rules as Code & Digital Ready Legislation
Rules as code (RAC) is an approach to create and publish regulations, legislation and policies as machine and human readable. The event will gather experts & public servants from accross Europe to discuss and share experiences about the digitization of rulemaking.
Praktische info:

The FARI - AI for the Common Good Institute (ULB/VUB) and Easy Brussels organise half a day of discussion and talks about Rules as Code and Digital-Ready legislation. The event will gather experts & public servants from accross Europe to discuss and share experiences about the digitization of rulemaking. The discussion will take place in English, French and Dutch.
Program
- 11:30 – 12:00 - Welcome & Registration of participants
- Rules as Code & Administrative Simplification (12:00 - 15:30) - Designed for public servants
- 12:00 – 12:30 – Gregory Lewkowicz & David Restrepo Amariles, Rules as Code (RaC) and the SimpLex project in Brussels: An Introduction to a New Perspective on Policymaking and Legislation Drafting
- 12:30 – 12:50 – Kristoffer Nilaus Olsen, Digital-Ready Legislation in Denmark
- 12:50 – 13:10 – Kate Hannah & Zoë Rillstone, RaC for Legislation Drafting in Jersey
- 13:15 – 14:00 – Roundtables Lunch “RaC in practice”: Discussion with experts
- 14:00 – 14:20 – Laurence Diver & Masha Medvedeva, The Typology of Legal Technologies: A Web Tool to Explore Legal Technologies
- 14:20 – 14:40 – Thomas Guillet & Mauko Quiroga, OpenFisca: The Open Source Platform to Write Rules as Code
- 14:40 – 15:00 – Sandra Chakroun & Benoît Courty, The Case of Leximpact at the French National Assembly
- 15:00 – 15:30 – General Discussion: What Remains to Be Done in the Region of Brussels?
- Rules as Code & Digital-Ready Legislation (16:00 - 18:30)
- 15:30 – 16:00 – Welcome & Registration of Participants
- 16:00 – 16:20 – Welcome Speeches
- Bernard Clerfayt, Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Digital Transition
- Representative of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Geoffroy Alsteens & Yves Mathonet, Brussels Regional Informatics Centre (BRIC)
- 16:20 – 17:00 – The SimpLex Project: Building a Regional Legislation Database & AI-based Tools for Better Legislation
- Youcef Bouharaoua, Hakim Boulahya, Simone Casalena, Xander De Valkeneer, Raphaël Gyory, Gregory Lewkowicz, David Restrepo Amariles, Raffaele Todesco
- 17:00 – 17:15 – Pause
- 17:15 – 18:15 – Rules as Code & Digital-Ready Legislations in Practice
- Sandra Chakroun, Benoît Courty, Thomas Guillet, Kate Hannah, Mireille Hildebrandt, Kristoffer Nilaus Olsen, Mauko Quiroga, Zoë Rillstone.
- 18:15 – 18:30 – Gregory Lewkowicz, Conclusion – Legal Innovation for the Capital of Europe : The Way Ahead
- 18:30 - Cocktail
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