Publishing Practices of Official Gazettes Survey Results 2024
This report presents the results of the Survey on the Publishing Practices of Official Gazettes launched by the Secretariat of the European Forum of Official Gazettes in May 2024. The purpose of the survey was to take stock of current publishing trends amongst European Gazettes and beyond in terms of services provided by the publishing organisations, print and electronic editions of the Gazettes, accessibility and authentication, web-analytics, and artificial intelligence (hereafter AI). Despite some limitations, listed at the end of the report, the results serve to capture the current state of practice surrounding the official publishing of legislation and can be used as a source of comparison for future analyses. Notable findings include that although all except one Gazette respondent have an electronic version of their gazette, about half of Gazettes still print, although not for large-scale dissemination. Site visits on electronic versions are increasing steadily, however. Furthermore, only 27.3% of Gazettes logged training activities for citizens as a service provided by the publishing organisation. Additionally, only half of the Gazettes make use of web-analytics, while half do not. Finally, AI is not yet used in the production process by 94.3% of Gazettes. In light of the focus on AI as a theme in the upcoming 20th plenary Forum, observing how this finding changes over years to come should prove highly interesting.