Sources/EU/EUR-Lex

EU legislation from the Publications Office CELLAR database. Regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations, and international agreements. Article-level granularity with chapter/section hierarchy. Year-by-year from 1952 via SPARQL.

Status: active

Source

Key	Kind	Origin	Auth	Update
eurlex	legislation + section	SPARQL + CELLAR download — publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql	none	incremental (year-by-year)

ID format:

• Text root: eu.eurlextext{celex.lower()}:{lang} (e.g. eu.eurlextext32016r0679:fr)
• Article: eu.eurlexarti{celex.lower()}_{article_number}:{lang}
• Chapter/section: eu.eurlexscta{celex.lower()}_{html_id}:{lang}

Coverage: 1952–present

Tags

Classification

CELEX nature code	→ nature
R	REGLEMENT
L	DIRECTIVE
D	DECISION
H	RECOMMANDATION
X	ACCORD_INTERNATIONAL

type = statute (always). number derived from CELEX pattern (e.g. 2016/679).

Enforcement

enforcement_status	in_force	Signal
in_force	true	SPARQL in-force signal present
repealed	false	end_of_validity is past

Only these two values are emitted (full vocabulary defined in TAG-CONVENTIONS but not used by this source).

needs_review = "enforcement_status_missing" (no signal) or "enforcement_status_contradiction" (in-force=true but end-of-validity is past).

Structure

Record type	kind	Notes
Root text node	section	structure_type: "legislation", text_id = cross-language canonical ID
Chapter	section	parent = text root
Sub-section	section	parent = chapter
Article	legislation	parent = nearest enclosing section
Preamble	legislation	article_number: "PREAMBULE"

Identifiers

Tag	Notes
celex	CELEX identifier
text_id	cross-language canonical work ID (no :lang suffix)

Multilingual

Each language version is a separate row with :{lang} suffix. translation_pending set when content was fetched in EN fallback.

Edges

kind	Direction	Trigger
language_variant	EN ↔ FR	post-ingest LLM translation enrichment

Related sources

Source	Relationship
cjeu	CJEU decisions interpret EU legislation. No cross-source edges yet.

Limitations

• Only language="fr" ingested — multi-language support planned
• Only R, L, D, H, X nature codes — other CELEX types not ingested
• No citation edges between EU legislative acts
• Legacy/PDF format documents produce a single article (no structural breakdown)