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(French) Budget d'Etat au plus haut niveau. Cette catégorie vise les budgets qui sont des dépenses planifiées par l'Etat pour les années à venir et non les dépenses exécutées.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | Yes | CC BY 3.0 AT |
| In an open and machine-readable format | XML | https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/0d207682-c031-4cd0-af4d-9d40d229b57e provides an RSS feed in XML to the meta data of each bill |
| Downloadable at once | No | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 3 | |
| findable_steps | I went to the website of the Austrian Parliament, https://www.parlament.gv.at, then clicked on "Parliament aktiv" ("Parliament active") and then clicked on "Regierungsvorlagen und Gesetzesinitativen" (Government bills and initiated laws). Typing "parlament gesetzesentwürfe" into Google showed the correct page on the Parliament's website as the second result (the first was for public consultations on draft bills). | Correct. |
| licence_url | https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/0d207682-c031-4c | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | To make the data usable, a scraper has to be used |
| collector_name | Austrian Parliament | Correct. |
| characteristics | Content of bill, Author of bill, Status of bill | Authors are in almost all cases ministries. The site names the ministry that initiated the bill (not the civil servants who drafted it). Debates are only available when the bill is discussed in the plenary, not when earlier drafts are discussed in committee (most committees are non-public). Votes in committee and in plenary are released per party/fraction, not per member of parliament. |
| location | https://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/RGES/ - Website of the Austrian Parliament, https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/0d207682-c031-4c - Entry on the Austrian open government data portal, data.gv.at | Websites can be translated but they do not appear to be offered in English. |
As per instructions, it makes sense not to be overly restrictive with draft legislation data and to accept submissions if they do not meet all our characteristics. This data set has 3 of the 5 criteria content, author and status. It is easy to find and readily available. To be specific - Authors are in almost all cases ministries. The site names the ministry that initiated the bill (not the civil servants who drafted it). Debates are only available when the bill is discussed in the plenary, not when earlier drafts are discussed in committee (most committees are non-public). Votes in committee and in plenary are released per party/fraction, not per member of parliament.