European Legislation Identifier “ELI”

Making legislation interoperable From dream to reality

Law via the Internet, Florence

11th October 2018

John Dann Chair of the ELI Task Force

Director of the Official Journal of Luxembourg

Roberto PAPPALARDO Head of Unit Official Journal & Case law

Publications Office of the European Union

Opportunities

➢ Facilitate the accessibility and participation • Access to public Information - PSI Directive

➢ Further digitalisation of public services • Enrichment of analysis for better decision making • Exchange and interconnection of data

➢ Research, Innovation and Development • Towards an ”Legislative Open Data“

➢ Increase transparency and efficiency • Promote participatory democracy • Better reflect the needs of users

➢Modernisation of traditional legal publishing industry • Legal Tech in start-ups, traditional publishers, law firms…

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ELI Idea and goal

Contribute to make your legal data even more:

➢Discoverable and searchable

➢Accessible

➢Exchangeable

➢Interconnectable

➢Reusable 3

European Legislation Identifier “ELI”

➢Work started in “European Forum of Official Gazettes”

➢Conclusions of the EU Council “European Legislation Identifier (ELI)” published in the Official Journal of the European Union on October 26th 2012, “2012/C 325/02” and updated November 6th 2017.

• EU funding for the project since 2014

• Collective decision-making by members of the ELI Task Force

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ELI Implementers

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Implemented Potential implementers

Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Ireland Italy Luxembourg Norway Portugal United Kingdom Publications Office EU

Albania Croatia Cyprus Greece Hungary Latvia Malta Netherlands Serbia Spain Switzerland

• Unique Resource Identifier – URI • Identification of legislation

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• Metadata catalogues • Description of each legal resource

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• Structured information linking to other documents

• Render ELI machine-reusable metadata e.g. RDFa

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ELI components

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ELI Video

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ELI &

Schema.org

EUR-Lex – 31980L0181 – EN – EUR-Lex Council Directive of 20 December 1979 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to units of measures …

Original version (20/12/1979) | latest consolidation (27/05/2009)

Status : Currently in force

Today

Tomorrow ?

About : metrology, measuring equipment, approximation of laws

Search results with added value

Legislation Thing > CreativeWork > Legislation

legislationDate legislationType legislationChanges legislationPassedBy

Schema.org extension

Schema.org Legislation extension status

➢Extension proposed by the ELI Task Force

➢Publicly released in a « pending » state http://pending.schema.org/Legislation

➢Everyone can use it for implementation

• Implementers to my knowledge:

• Luxembourg Official Journal

• Brazilian Federal Parliament

How does ELI work on EU law?

How does ELI work on EU law?

• Typedoc = decision, directive, regulation

• Natural number = unique number of each legal act

How does ELI work on EU law?

http://eurlex.europa.eu/

How does ELI work on EU law?

http://eurlex.europa.eu/eli

How does ELI work on EU law?

http://eurlex.europa.eu/eli/dec/

How does ELI work on EU law?

http://eurlex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2009/

How does ELI work on EU law?

http://eurlex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2009/496/

How does ELI work on EU law?

http://eurlex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2009/496/oj

How does ELI work on EU law?

How does ELI work on EU law?

Direct access to the OJ version of the legal act

How does ELI work on EU law?

How does ELI work on EU law?

If 'OJ' not specified,

display of latest

consolidated

version

How does ELI work on EU law?

How does ELI work on EU law?

If no number is

specified, EUR-Lex

will return all

documents of the

indicated

document type

and year

How does ELI work at the Publications Office?

The pillars

• HTTP URI

• RDFa metadata for all acts published in the Official Journal of

the EU, ie.

Document types covered

- Directives

- Regulations

- Decisions

- International agreements

- Opinions and recommendations

- Consolidation (in the scope of ELI)

- EU Budget: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/budget/2018

Under development: Treaties

Ongoing activities – ELI URIs for text fragments

Allow direct access to text fragments (titles, articles)

Anchors in HTML with ELI links

Ongoing activities – transposition measures

Facilitates exchange of information in the context of

transposition measures (workflow between the Commission's

Secretariat General and the Member States)

ELI relation properties: transposes/ is transposed by

EU Datathon on 2 October 2018

Challenge about making European legislation interoperable

Reuse of national ELI datasets

16 proposals from all over the EU

4 finalists short-listed

Winner: Lexparency

Lexparency project: modelling of legal acts using ELI

ELI documentation and Training 31

➢ELI website hosted by EUR-Lex

• http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli

➢ELI guides (general and technical) in PDF, Print and ePub (regularly updated)

➢ELI Ontology

• http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/eli/

Thank you