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Lydia Anderson, interim Delegate-Ambassador: All for a good cause, lads... want another one on my part?Word count: 505
OOC: Openly, brazenly - and loosely - inspired by the database proposal in Victoria Hewson's report for the IEA, Rules Britannia.
OOC 2: GA#442 concerns GA resolutions; RA Compact concerns GA regulations. No duplication of GA#234 here, the list is publically accessible so member states cannot prevent inhabitants from reading it BUT nothing in prior and standing WA law is stopping them from charging for access to the list
Regulatory Awareness Compact
A resolution to improve worldwidehumansapient and civil rights.Category: Civil RightsStrength: MildProposed by: Tinhampton
Believing that the WACC's mandate to inform members about new World Assembly regulations is useless if their inhabitants cannot read them, especially at no cost, and
Seeking to enable individuals to learn about and exercise their rights and responsibilities as defined by law...
The General Assembly hereby:
- tasks the World Assembly Law Distribution Service with:
- compiling a list of every currently extant committee established under the aegis of the World Assembly, and updating it in future when resolutions are passed or repealed,
- ensuring that this list includes each committee's name, all of their mandates for members and individuals to comply with, and the full text of every regulation they have made,
- redacting this list to remove all sensitive information associated with a person (natural or legal) or a government, including all information that must be redacted from it under prior and standing international law, and
- making this list public, including by distributing it to member states, after its redaction pursuant to Article a(iii),
- requires members to make at least one copy of this list available in full to their inhabitants and WA diplomats on request (subject to reasonable use constraints) and free of charge,
- orders members and their political subdivisions to publish, maintain and distribute as soon as possible (but no less frequently than on an annual basis), while adopting the principles of Articles a(ii-iv) and b:
- the names and regulations of their own governmental committees,
- the full and unredacted text of all legislation that they have enacted beyond such committees, regardless of their dates of enactment,
- the full and unredacted text of all bilateral or multilateral treaties that they are, or have previously been, party to,
- the full transcript of all official debates concerning such legislation, regulations or treaties, if any were held, and
- all criminal and civil penalties associated with all offences created by such legislation, regulations or treaties,
- clarifies that:
- where a debate concerning a law, regulation or treaty was not held in public, the transcript of that debate may be withheld for no longer than five years after it happened (although this Article does not prevent publication of such transcripts before five years, including immediately),
- Article c, where it would normally apply, does not apply where no copies of the regulation, text or transcript (as appropriate) in question exist; however, where such copies do exist, members and their political subdivisions must neither destroy them nor permit their destruction in order to avoid the provisions of Article c, and that
- where the lists each member state must distribute pursuant to Articles b and c cannot be readily distributed in full through any pre-existing means, member states must offer those of their inhabitants who request such lists a publically-accessible address within their jurisdiction where they can be read in full, and
- urges member states to repeal laws that contradict existing international laws, serve merely to arbitrarily restrict personal or corporate freedoms, or are otherwise not needed.
Still E&C/Education; still tempted to shift this one to FreeTrade/Mild.
