The project ONE-LEX is intended to provide a response to some very important trends in the provision of legal information, which determine serious problems but also open enormous opportunities for the European legal systems.

Trends:
  1. the rapidly progressing digitalization of legal information.
  2. the law moving into the Internet.
  3. the standardisation of formats for the representation of textual legal information.
  4. the move from the present, text-based web, into the so-called semantic-web.
  5. the executable representation of legal regulations.
  6. the increasing diversity in the provision of legal information.
  7. the two-ways integration of legal theory and in legal informatics.
    8. the extension of European Union to new countries, having very different legal and technologies histories.