annexes/table Report of the Amendments of a Bill, the Memorandum of a Bill, Order of Business, Legal Notice, etc. Akoma Ntoso type collectionStructure Document: Used to represent documents which are collections of other independent documents. A typical example is the electronic folder related to a bill. This folder is composed by several independent documents (committee reports, initiative, bill, memorandum, etc.) and by different expressions over time such as versions of the same bill. Another example is the U.S. Code: it is a documentCollection composed by various Titles of positive and non-positive law. In European institutions, the committee report, for example, can be considered as a document collection, as it includes documents like Resolutions, Explanatory Memorandum or Opinions from other committees. amendmentList Akoma Ntoso type collectionStructure Used to represent a special document that includes all the amendments, collected and submitted to the official deliberative body for the discussion. officialGazette Ntoso type collectionStructure Used to represent an issue of an official publication body such as Official Gazette, Journal, Bulletin or Federal Register. amendment Akoma Ntoso type amendmentStructure Legal Document: Amendment document Used to describe specific amendment documents. It is a special document or a component of an amendment list, presented by the member(s) of parliament to the committee or to the assembly for discussion and vote. statement Akoma Ntoso type openStructure Legal Document: resolution Used to represent those legal documents that do not have a prescriptive power, but they are fundamental for the life of an official institution. An example is the resolution issued by the Congress that celebrates some special event, or a declaration. Other examples are the resolution or decision from European Parliament. portion Akoma Ntoso type portionStructure Document: chapter of a document Used to represent a portion of any document at manifestation level. 4.2.2 Support for all the uses of legal documents Akoma Ntoso is designed for use in all applications that use legal documents. This includes applications both inside and outside the deliberating bodies that make the law. Akoma Ntoso includes, without being limited to, support for: the initial drafting of bills;
<component eId="cmpnts__cmp_2__cmpnts__cmp_1"> <doc name="reportInformeMinoriaNational"> ... </doc> </component> <component eId=" cmpnts__cmp_2__cmpnts__cmp_2"> <statement name="PROYECTO DE RESOLUCIÓN"> ... </statement> </component> </components> </documentCollection> </component> </components> </akomaNtoso> 6.2 Hierarchical Structure Any document with a hierarchical structure belongs to this family of documents. For hierarchical structure we mean a structure organized with higher levels that basic units, basic units (article, section, etc.) and lower levels inside of the basic unit. The Akoma Ntoso standard is neutral with respect to the legal drafting techniques of the different legal traditions, providing most of the hierarchical elements for modeling the body structure: book, tome, part, subpart, title, subtitle, chapter, subchapter, section, subsection, clause, subclause, paragraph, subparagraph, division, point, indent, alinea, list, sublist. For these reasons, the main requirements of structuring legal text are covered. The following table shows an example how to use of hierarchical elements: Anglophone tradition French tradition Portuguese tradition Italian tradition Spanish tradition EU tradition (here,only English, French, Spanish) NOTOSO Higher Division Tome Tome tome Part Partie (codes) Parte (codes) Parte Parte Part/ Partie parte part Livre (codes) Livro (codes) Libro Libro book Title Titre Título Titolo Título Title/ Titre/ Titulo title Chapter Chapitre Capítulo Capitolo Capítulo Chapter/ Chapitre Capitulo chapter Subchapter Article (US) Section (codes) Secção Sezione Sección o Párrafo Section/ section/ Sección section (code) SubSeçcão Subsection/ Subsección subsection level level