In the philosophy of Trias Politica and democracy it’s needless to say that law, regulations and official government information is widely accessible to everyone. Everyone, such as lawmakers, legal professionals, executive government organizations, journalists, scientists and citizens. In these modern times the digital techniques make it not only possible to digitize the law and regulations, but also to offer new solutions to improve access, searchability and benefit from cross-organizational connections.
KOOP is the driving force behind the largest internet portals with official government information: overheid.nl (government.nl), wetten.nl (laws.nl) and officielebekendmakingen.nl (officialpublications.nl). KOOP supports all government organizations on a daily basis to publish the statutory disclosures and availability of laws and regulations, parliamentary documents, permits and international treaties. And we help the government to modernize all phases of the legislative and regulatory process chain for the benefit of all governments, legal professionals, implementers and citizens.
To accomplish this, to digital transform the legislative and regulatory process chain, we started digitizing the Government Gazette (Staatscourant) and from there on we slowly digitalized more and more of the legal publications. For each project we got initial and structural investment from our government clients. Crucial is that for most projects KOOP has a combination of clients (several departments, executive government organizations and local government). Our clients understand that projects in the legislative and regulatory process chain are always cross-organizational.
The mission of KOOP is to stand for the legally valid daily publication, provision and signaling of all government information for the benefit of the Dutch constitutional state. The availability of official government documents, from the publications in the Government Gazette to all applicable laws and regulations, international treaties, official parliamentary documents and local regulations: you have to digitalize all of it or nothing.
KOOP works in close collaboration with those governing bodies that make the laws. After all, they are responsible for the laws and we for the systems in order to publish these new laws. Legal professionals can always find the relevant applicable and historical laws and regulations. Citizens have immidiate fast access to publications that are relevant to them. Citizens and interest groups can comment on upcoming laws. Government employees can work more effective thanks to law, regulation and official government information available in one digital pocket.