The CEPS EurLex dataset: 142.036 EU laws from 1952-2019 with full text and 22 variables
Published: February 16, 2020
Version v3
Description
The dataset contains 142.036 EU laws - almost the entire corpus of the EU's digitally available legal acts passed between 1952 - 2019. It encompasses the three types of legally binding acts passed by the EU institutions: 102.304 regulations, 4.070 directives, 35.798 decisions in English language. The dataset was scraped from the official EU legal database (Eur-lex.eu) and transformed in machine-readable CSV format with the programming languages R and Python. The dataset was collected by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) for the TRIGGER project (https://trigger-project.eu/).It is about 1.5 GB large. We hope that it will facilitate future quantitative and computational research on the EU.
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Variables
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Act_amends | CELEX number of the old act amended by the new act (see detail on CELEX below) |
| Act_cites | CELEX number of other acts cited by the act |
| Act_name | Full name of act |
| act_raw_text | The full raw text of the act in one string. Mostly includes: title, recitals, legal articles and annex. Please note that the texts of older laws is not always clean. |
| Additional_info | Additional information |
| Amends_links | link to previous act which is amended by the new act |
| Authors | name of the act's authors |
| CELEX | unique CELEX identifier of the act. |
| Cites_links | link to other acts, cited by the act |
| Date_document | Date of the document. The eur-lex.eu website does not provide an explanation of which exact date in the legislative process this represents. The dataset ranges from 1952 to August 2019. |
| Date_publication | Date the document was published |
| ELI_link | European Legislation Identifier (ELI) link to the act. |
| EUROVOC | A group of EuroVoc keywords associated with the act. |
| Eurlex_link | Link to act on eur-lex.europa.eu website. |
| First_entry_into_force | Date when act first entered into force |
| Legal_basis_celex | The CELEX number of the act's legal basis |
| Oeil_link | Link to the European Parliament's Legislative Observatory (Oeil). Provides procedural information. |
| Procedure_number | Number of the legislative procedure leading to the act |
| Proposal_link | Link to the Commission proposal proceeding the act |
| Status | whether the act was in force at the time of scraping (August 2019). ("In Force" or "Not in Force") |
| Subject_matter | Group of keywords representing the subject matter of the act. Similar to EUROVOC, only less detailed, more abstract. |
| Temporal_status | Date of end of validity of the act |
| Treaty | Name of the Treaty the act is based on |
Details
| Resource type | Open dataset |
| Title | The CEPS EurLex dataset: 142.036 EU laws from 1952-2019 with full text and 22 variables |
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| Size | 1.5 GB |
| Formats | Comma-separated values (CSV) (.csv) |
| License(s) | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal |
| External Resource | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0EGYWY |
| Keywords / Subjects | Computer and information sciences Law Social science |
| Dates of collection | July 1, 2019 ; October 1, 2019 |