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The CEPS EurLex dataset: 142.036 EU laws from 1952-2019 with full text and 22 variables

The CEPS EurLex dataset: 142.036 EU laws from 1952-2019 with full text and 22 variables

Stefan
Open Dataset
Creators: Borret, Camille; Laurer Moritz
Publication Date: 2020
Creators: Borret, Camille; Laurer Moritz

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 full texts of these legal documents, providing researchers and analysts with extensive material for legal, historical, and policy-related studies. The dataset covers 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. It was collected by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) for the TRIGGER project (https://trigger-project.eu/). We hope that it will facilitate future quantitative and computational research on the EU. Covering EU legal acts from the year 1952 up to August 2019, this dataset provides a historical perspective on the evolution of EU legislation over nearly seven decades. It has a size of 1,5 GB.

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