Application of business process modelling and reengineering to law making process in Poland.

The effectiveness of services provided by the governmental institutions is determined by the quality of established law. The number of the adopted regulations is increasing but their quality is reducing. Improvement of existing legislation is a time-consuming and difficult task. We propose to apply techniques of business process modelling and reengineering to improve the quality of law in the course of law-making. The main contribution of the article is a method based on the application of the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to design processes, introduced by the legal acts. Due to the application of this method, processes regulated by legislations could be failure-free and effective. This method permits one to indicate how proposed amendments affect the regulated processes. The method was practically implemented and validated during the process of law-making in Poland. This case empirically confirmed that the application of our method could enhance the quality of public processes, regulated by legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]