The CEPS EurLex dataset: 142.036 EU laws from 1952-2019 with full text and 22 variables
Creators:
Borret, Camille; Laurer Moritz
Publication Date:
2020
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Dataset 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/). We hope that it will facilitate future quantitative and computational research on the EU.
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