European Legislation Identifier

The European Legislation Identifier (ELI, German European Legislative Identifier ) is intended to make it possible to categorize national and European legal provisions "in a flexible and unambiguous way and thereby pave the way for a semantic web of legal gazettes and official gazettes".

In short: ELI is a system for identifying legal provisions based on a common standard.

purpose

By using unique identifiers and structured metadata for categorization, the ELI should make it possible to connect the different national technical systems for storing and displaying legal provisions for a uniform search. The URI ( Uniform Resource Identifier ) from ELI uniquely and stably identify all legal provisions within the European Union and at the same time do justice to the peculiarities of national legal systems.

ELI aims to facilitate affordable, public access for EU citizens and other interested parties to the various national, international and pan-European current regulations.

Structure of ELI

“ELI uses URI ( Unified Resource Identifier ) in http format to specifically identify all legal information available online that is published by government agencies across Europe. These URIs are formally described using automatically readable URI schemes (IETF RFC 6570 ) and use components that contain semantics from both a legal and a consumer perspective. Each Member State creates its own, self-describing URI using the elements mentioned and taking into account the specific language requirements. "

The unmistakable identification is achieved by the fact that the code (standard identifier) consists of several main parts (6 to 10) separated by a slash , which are only assigned once in total.

/ ELI / [country code] / [identifier] / [further subdivisions] / [validity] / [version] / [language]

“All components are optional and can be selected based on national requirements; there is no fixed order to be followed. "

Metadata

The most important element for the search and the use of standards and thus for the ELI are also the metadata entered. The more precisely the metadata is specified in the ELI, the finer the respective search can be carried out.

“While Member States are free to use their own metadata schemas, they are encouraged to follow and apply the ELI metadata standards; these standards use shared but extensible registers of legal bases that allow specific requirements to be met. The ELI Metadata Scheme should be used in conjunction with specific metadata schemes. In order to make the data exchange as effective as possible, ELI metadata elements can be connected in series in accordance with the W3C recommendation 'RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing'. "

Attendees

The ELI and ECLI ( European Case Law Identifier ) systems complement each other and ELI, like ECLI, can and should be introduced in the EU member states on a voluntary basis .

Apart from the EU member states, the candidate countries and the Lugano states as well as other third countries or international organizations can also use the ELI system.

ELI coordinator

Each Member State using ELI must designate a national body to act as the ELI coordinator. Each country should only have one ELI coordinator. The ELI Coordinator for the European Union is the Publications Office of the European Union .

tasks

The Publications Office of the European Union will integrate ELI on the EUR-Lex portal and provide other useful information on ELI.

In the national area, the tasks of the ELI coordinator are:

Reporting on the progress of the implementation of the ELI;
Determining the applicable URI template (s) and submitting them to the Publications Office of the European Union;
Capture the available metadata and its relationship to the ELI metadata schema (if applicable);
sharing and disseminating information on ELI.

Web links

EUR-Lex information on European Legislation Identifier (multilingual).
The European e-Justice Portal
ELI Luxembourg
European Legislation Identifier (ELI) , Council Document 17554/11 of December 21, 2011.
Council document 14070/2/12 REV 2, p. 16, approving the implementation of ELI.
Council conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI) , OJ. 2012 / C 325/02 (German).

Individual evidence

↑ See: Council document 13401/12 Group E Law of September 14, 2012 on ELI, p. 1 (German). On September 24, 2012, the Council of the European Union approved the call of the working group "E-Law" for the introduction of a European Legislation Identifier (ELI).
↑ See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI) , OJ. 2012 / C 325/02 (German), point III.9.
↑ Council Document 13401/12 Group E Law of September 14, 2012 on ELI, p. 5.
↑ See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, point II.7 and III.10.
↑ Council document 13401/12 Group E-Law of 14 September 2012 on ELI, p. 8. and See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, Appendix, No. 1.
^ Jurisdiction . For example: NL for the Netherlands or Belgium BE according to the ISO 3166 alpha-2 code. The European Union receives the code "EU". Further subdivisions are possible (agent, sub-agent)
↑ The identifier (Reference) consists of several sub-elements, e.g. B. year / month / day of the first publication, type of standard (e.g. law , ordinance, etc.), sub-category of the standard (if necessary), further subdivision (if necessary), further distinguishing mark (if necessary).
↑ The further subdivision can be made if necessary, e.g. B. according to article, paragraph, paragraph etc.
↑ The date of validity of the legal act must be given in the form YYYYMMDD.
↑ Reference can be made here to different versions.
↑ Information in ISO 3166 alpha-3 code.
↑ See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, Appendix, No. 1.
↑ See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, Appendix, No. 1.
↑ Group E Law of September 14, 2012 on ELI, p. 16., point 3.2. and Council conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, point III.8 and 13 ff and annex, no. 3.2
^ Iceland , Norway and Switzerland .
↑ See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, point III.17.
↑ Council Document 13401/12 Group E Law of September 14, 2012 on ELI, p. 16.
↑ Council document 13401/12 Group E-Law of 14 September 2012 on ELI, p. 17.
↑ See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, point III.16.
↑ Council document 13401/12 Group E-Law of 14 September 2012 on ELI, p. 16, point 3.1, point 2 and Council conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, Appendix, No. 3.

[1] See: Council document 13401/12 Group E Law of September 14, 2012 on ELI, p. 1 (German). On September 24, 2012, the Council of the European Union approved the call of the working group "E-Law" for the introduction of a European Legislation Identifier (ELI).

[2] See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI) , OJ. 2012 / C 325/02 (German), point III.9.

[3] Council Document 13401/12 Group E Law of September 14, 2012 on ELI, p. 5.

[4] See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, point II.7 and III.10.

[5] Council document 13401/12 Group E-Law of 14 September 2012 on ELI, p. 8. and See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, Appendix, No. 1.

[6] Jurisdiction . For example: NL for the Netherlands or Belgium BE according to the ISO 3166 alpha-2 code. The European Union receives the code "EU". Further subdivisions are possible (agent, sub-agent)

[7] The identifier (Reference) consists of several sub-elements, e.g. B. year / month / day of the first publication, type of standard (e.g. law , ordinance, etc.), sub-category of the standard (if necessary), further subdivision (if necessary), further distinguishing mark (if necessary).

[8] The further subdivision can be made if necessary, e.g. B. according to article, paragraph, paragraph etc.

[9] The date of validity of the legal act must be given in the form YYYYMMDD.

[10] Reference can be made here to different versions.

[11] Information in ISO 3166 alpha-3 code.

[12] See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, Appendix, No. 1.

[13] See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, Appendix, No. 1.

[14] Group E Law of September 14, 2012 on ELI, p. 16., point 3.2. and Council conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, point III.8 and 13 ff and annex, no. 3.2

[15] Iceland , Norway and Switzerland .

[16] See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, point III.17.

[17] Council Document 13401/12 Group E Law of September 14, 2012 on ELI, p. 16.

[18] Council document 13401/12 Group E-Law of 14 September 2012 on ELI, p. 17.

[19] See Council conclusions with a call for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, point III.16.

[20] Council document 13401/12 Group E-Law of 14 September 2012 on ELI, p. 16, point 3.1, point 2 and Council conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Legislation Identifier (ELI), OJ. 2012 / C 325/02, Appendix, No. 3.