Davide Audrito , Ivan Spada , Rachele Mignone, Emilio Sulis, Luigi Di Caro
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Abstract
Achieving legislative harmonisation within the European Union (EU) is a multifaceted challenge, hampered by various political, economic, and legal complexities. This article addresses the significant issue of non-compliance by EU member states in transposing EU laws into national frameworks, underscored by numerous infringement procedures. This work introduces a novel methodological framework that combines semantic knowledge modelling and transformer-based language models to address discrepancies in legislative harmonisation. Central to the proposed methodology is the creation of a comprehensive glossary designed to establish correspondences between European legislative concepts and their national counterparts, thus facilitating greater accuracy in legal harmonisation. By deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) for semi-automating concept detection, complemented by legal harmonisation expert’s oversight, this research provides an exhaustive, explainable assessment of legislative approximation within the EU. The findings enrich the academic debate on legal harmonisation offering actionable tools designed to decrease the frequency and gravity of infringement procedures, while promoting a more unified and efficient legal framework across the Union. The complete dataset and resources are available at the following link: GitHub repository.
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CLSR publishes refereed academic and practitioner papers on topics such as Web 2.0, IT security, Identity management, ID cards, RFID, interference with privacy, Internet law, telecoms regulation, online broadcasting, intellectual property, software law, e-commerce, outsourcing, data protection, EU policy, freedom of information, computer security and many other topics. In addition it provides a regular update on European Union developments, national news from more than 20 jurisdictions in both Europe and the Pacific Rim. It is looking for papers within the subject area that display good quality legal analysis and new lines of legal thought or policy development that go beyond mere description of the subject area, however accurate that may be.