Tuzson: EU legal competitiveness main topic at justice ministers’ informal meeting

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The European Union’s legal competitiveness was the main topic at Tuesday’s informal meeting of EU justice ministers in Budapest, Justice Minister Bence Tuzson said after the meeting.

Tuzson told a press conference that though the improvement of the bloc’s competitiveness may seem like an economic issue, the EU’s legal competitiveness was also of key importance, adding that this meant that EU laws needed to serve and support competitiveness.

He said he and his counterparts had identified certain areas that could strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, such as streamlining the legislative process and laws, and improving their transparency.

The minister said most of the member states present at the meeting had agreed with those ideas, and “creative work has started”.

He said they had also discussed the possibility of using artificial intelligence in the field of law. They had also reviewed best practices in connection with how AI could be used in practice with a view to making the enforcement of the law more effective, Tuzson added.

Another possible use of AI, he said, was the review of legislation. He said that the increasing number of laws in the EU could lead to legal opacity, and AI could help make things clearer.

Tuzson said a project using AI to help navigate legislation was already under way in Hungary.