Where the law on this site comes from

The sources we read

One row per source family, with what we take from it and what its own terms allow. A source whose terms we have not read is treated as the strictest of the three, not the most convenient.

• What we take The Official Journal of the European Union, read through EUR-Lex and through CELLAR, the Publications Office's own store behind it. Every regulation and directive we quote is read there, in the language the reader is reading.

  May be republished, with the source named

  TermsCommission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents

• What we take A European standard printed inside an EU act, such as the ISO 14001 clauses reproduced in Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1505. The annex sits in the Journal, the content belongs to the standards bodies, and the act's own footnote says so.

  Nothing of its text goes out

  TermsThe act's own footnote: reproduction for commercial reasons is not permitted

• What we take The registers of national implementing measures, where a member state tells the Commission which act it passed to transpose a directive.

  May be republished, with the source named

  TermsCommission Decision 2011/833/EU

• What we take The member states' own transposing acts, on the gazette or register that publishes them. A directive binds the state, so a duty reaches a reader through the state's act and not through the directive itself.

  Our reading only, never its own text

  TermsEach state's own reuse rules, which differ

  Terms not yet read, so nothing of its own text goes out.

• What we take The ENISA and CSIRTs Network listings of the national teams, for who takes an incident report where.

  May be republished, with the source named

  TermsCommission Decision 2011/833/EU, with ENISA's own attribution notice

• What we take Tenders Electronic Daily, the Publications Office's record of public procurement notices, for what buyers actually ask suppliers to hold.

  May be republished, with the source named

  TermsCommission Decision 2011/833/EU, and the TED reuse notice

• What we take The IAF mandatory documents that accreditation bodies hold certification bodies to, which is what makes the audit-day figures facts about what a certification will cost rather than estimates.

  Our reading only, never its own text

  TermsIAF's own copyright notice on the documents

  Terms not yet read, so nothing of its own text goes out.

• What we take ISO, IEC and CEN standards. They are sold under licence, so we publish clause numbers, editions and our own description of what a clause asks, and never the text.

  Nothing of its text goes out

  TermsSold under licence; no reuse permission

• What we take The member states' company registers. Nothing from one is republished; a company's own website is where an address comes from.

  Our reading only, never its own text

  TermsEach register's own terms, recorded per register in companyRegisters.ts

  Terms not yet read, so nothing of its own text goes out.

• What we take Our own readings, descriptions, mappings and arithmetic. This is most of what the product is, and the published datasets carry it under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

  May be republished, with the source named

  TermsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 for the published datasets