Survey on ODIHR Legislative Assistance Form

Welcome to ODIHR’s Legislative Assistance Survey!
Introduction:

Who?
ODIHR’s Legislative Support Unit (LSU) carries out legal analyses at the request of OSCE participating States and OSCE field operations and institutions.

On what?
Draft and existing legislation to assess their compliance with international human rights standards and OSCE commitments.

Where to find LSU’s work?
Legal Opinions or Comments are all available at www.legislationline.org.

Survey objective?
Improve our legislative assistance and tailor it better to your needs.

Estimated time to complete survey: 4 minutes.
Your response will be anonymous.
Please state which of the below applies to you.

Other
Have you ever read a Legal Opinion or Comments prepared by ODIHR before?
If not, please kindly visit www.legislationline.org and have a look at one of the latest Opinion/Comments most relevant to your work before continuing the survey.
If yes, how did you become aware of ODIHR Legal Opinion or Comments?

Other
How useful are the Legal Opinions/Comments to YOU?
How useful do you think the Legal Opinions/Comments are GENERALLY?
Do you usually skim through the Legal Opinion/Comments or do you read only the Executive Summary and Key Recommendations, or the entire document?
Having read or screened through one Legal Opinion or Comments prepared by ODIHR, please indicate if you agree or disagree with the following statements:
The structure and format/layout of the Legal Opinion/Comments are appealing and user-friendly:
The Key Recommendations contained in the Legal Opinions/Comments are clear and useful:
The wording and terminology used in the Legal Opinions/Comments are easy to understand:
How do you rate the level of detail of the Legal Opinions/Comments?
Do you have any concrete suggestions for improving the structure/format, wording and/or overall usefulness of the Legal Opinion/Comments to your work?
Are you familiar, either directly or indirectly, with any instance in which the Recommendations contained in the Legal Opinion/Comments having been taken into account by the legislators/law makers in a subsequent draft/adopted legislation?
If yes, please can you kindly specify the name of the Legal Opinion/Comments, Country, Year and, if possible, which recommendations no (A, B, C …). What, in your opinion, were the reasons/circumstances that led to such a positive outcome?
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Welcome to ODIHR’s Legislative Assistance Survey!

Having read or screened through one Legal Opinion or Comments prepared by ODIHR, please indicate if you agree or disagree with the following statements: