In considering enhancements of Albania s legal information infrastructure, several principles shape the recommendations of this Report. Any changes should enhance transparency of legal information, permit efficacious publication and then dissemination of laws and regulations after passage, provide for centralized information storage, add value to the information to permit effective retrieval from the database, and be relatively cost effective. One principal goal of any reform is to increase access to law in Albania.
Stability follows from greater awareness and reliance on laws, regulations, and judicial decisions.
Respect for individual liberties can grow, and the climate to attract investment can be improved. These aspects of transparency can be attained by requiring publication of a greater number of binding rules and regulations and by moving to an electronic publication system. All binding rules and regulations should be made available in an electronic format. Ensuring dissemination by itself cannot stop corruption or improve the education of judges, but it can contribute to an atmosphere in which judges and to some extent officials can be pressured to conform their conduct more closely to previously articulated norms. A second goal is prompt dissemination of any binding rules and regulations after promulgation.