{
  "source": "eurlex",
  "status": "reviewed-reuse-policy-with-third-party-exclusions",
  "reviewed_at": "2026-10-06",
  "label": "LicenseRef-EU-Reuse-Policy",
  "previous_label": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "issue": "slayerlabs/polish-dynaword-v2#57 (lawyer question: #56 B5)",
  "reuse_basis": {
    "documents": [
      {
        "role": "EUR-Lex legal notice",
        "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice.html",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-06T01:37+02:00",
        "bytes": 135286,
        "sha256": "7994b96f400239cda9061a64f781c75cf927637cf29320402a4ffce6d71f3857",
        "note": "sha256 of the HTML as fetched; the page footer carries the current year, so a later fetch hashes differently",
        "clauses": {
          "reuse_policy": "Copyright notice: 'The Commission's document reuse policy is based on Decision 2011/833/EU.' Unless otherwise specified, the legal documents published in EUR-Lex may be re-used for commercial or non-commercial purposes.",
          "special_conditions": "Copyright notice: 'Some documents, like the International Accounting Standards, may be subject to special conditions of use'; they are mentioned in the respective Official Journal/document.",
          "cc_by_4_scope": "Copyright notice: CC BY 4.0 covers the editorial content of the website, the summaries of EU legislation and the consolidated texts, with source acknowledgement and indication of changes.",
          "third_party": "Copyright notice: additional rights may need clearing where content includes third-party works; content not owned by the EU may need permission from the rights holders.",
          "industrial_property": "Copyright notice: software or documents covered by industrial property rights (patents, trademarks, registered designs, logos, names) are excluded from the reuse policy.",
          "metadata": "Copyright notice: EUR-Lex metadata is CC0 1.0 (not used here)."
        }
      },
      {
        "role": "Commission Decision 2011/833/EU of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents",
        "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/833/oj/eng",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-06T01:37+02:00",
        "bytes": 314528,
        "sha256": "1e867b79d32ed7078175705668e48f64c2850fa15a26ff761f4dc080514e69e8",
        "status_on_page": "In force",
        "clauses": {
          "art_1_2_1_scope": "Documents held by the Commission, or on its behalf by the Publications Office, produced by the Commission or entities acting on its behalf.",
          "recital_14": "The Decision does not apply to documents the Commission cannot allow to be reused, e.g. third-party intellectual property rights or documents received from the other Institutions.",
          "art_2_2_a": "Not applicable to software or documents covered by industrial property rights.",
          "art_2_2_b": "Not applicable to documents the Commission cannot license in view of third-party intellectual property rights.",
          "art_4": "General principle: documents available for reuse for commercial or non-commercial purposes under Art. 6, without charge, without individual application.",
          "art_6_2": "Permitted conditions: (a) acknowledge the source, (b) do not distort the original meaning or message, (c) non-liability of the Commission."
        }
      }
    ],
    "not_relied_on": "Polish Copyright Act Art. 4: it concerns Polish official documents, not EU acts. The v0.2.5 card cited it; removed.",
    "limit": "Decision 2011/833/EU applies to Commission documents. Acts of other institutions (Council, Parliament, ECB, EESC, CJEU) in the corpus rest on the notice's general sentence about legal documents published in EUR-Lex alone. This is an inference from the notice wording (Inferred), not a statement by the Publications Office."
  },
  "chain_of_title": [
    "EU institutions (authors) -> Publications Office EUR-Lex (publisher; reuse policy above)",
    "-> SpeakLeash speakleash-ds-pub key eurlex_corpus (aggregator; its terms for this corpus were not checked)",
    "-> SlayerLab/polish-dynaword eurlex (this dataset)"
  ],
  "parquet": {
    "v0_2_5_sha256": "5f151d57c20103f5488fd7f1b6c108311b648e4c7ed1ff02ef7a376be5c92f04",
    "v0_2_5_bytes": 1691883292,
    "v0_2_5_rows": 243060,
    "v0_2_5_chars": 5976949249,
    "v0_2_5_tokens": 2378055718,
    "after_sha256": "17e4112c40d2f961f01e6c4c0b31157c77d5ba89b4c86935d19a82fe0496a2ef",
    "rows": 242968,
    "chars": 5902889135,
    "tokens": 2350709056,
    "change": "per-row license column CC-BY-4.0 -> LicenseRef-EU-Reuse-Policy and the 92 IASB-notice documents dropped (src/clean_eurlex.py); every kept row is otherwise identical to v0.2.5"
  },
  "document_kinds_heuristic": {
    "method": "first 200 characters of each document",
    "counts": {
      "oj_c": 102032,
      "oj_l": 52413,
      "eurlex_page": 24146,
      "court_of_justice_celex_start": 21846,
      "consolidated": 17229,
      "other": 13712,
      "court_of_justice_text": 6155,
      "immc": 3521,
      "commission_head": 2006
    },
    "note": "17,229 consolidated texts (29.0% of characters) are within the notice's CC BY 4.0 grant as well; the single corpus label does not claim CC BY 4.0 for the rest"
  },
  "third_party_check": {
    "report_only": false,
    "dropped": 92,
    "scan": "data/eurlex/eurlex.third-party-scan.json (src/clean_eurlex.py --scan, on the v0.2.5 input; its iasb_notice_ids is the pinned drop list)",
    "iasb_notice": {
      "documents": 92,
      "characters": 74060114,
      "share_of_characters": 0.01239,
      "tokens": 27346662,
      "what": "Documents carrying the IASB notice (reproduction allowed within the EEA, all rights reserved outside it): 64 OJ acts adopting or amending IAS/IFRS and 28 consolidated versions (20 of Regulation 1126/2008, 6 of 1725/2003, 1 of 475/2012, 1 of 1361/2014). The notice sits in the reproduced standards; the rest of each document is EU text.",
      "hand_check": "All 92 matched lines read: each is the IASB notice (11 distinct line forms, including whitespace and quote-mark variants). All 64 non-consolidated titles concern IAS/IFRS or accounting.",
      "cross_check": "2 further documents have a standard-title line without the notice (eurlex_1848316, eurlex_2024404; 67,283 characters): not counted.",
      "mentions_without_notice": "6 documents name the IFRS Foundation or IASC Foundation in running text only (funding decisions, reports); not counted."
    },
    "copyright_sign": {
      "documents": 97,
      "hand_labelled_third_party_credit_or_citation": [
        "eurlex_1804281",
        "eurlex_1808068",
        "eurlex_1809226",
        "eurlex_1810394",
        "eurlex_1813244",
        "eurlex_1815292",
        "eurlex_1821803",
        "eurlex_1823205",
        "eurlex_1823678",
        "eurlex_1823728",
        "eurlex_1852144",
        "eurlex_1852490",
        "eurlex_1865032",
        "eurlex_1869305",
        "eurlex_1888527",
        "eurlex_1900544",
        "eurlex_1917072",
        "eurlex_1937895",
        "eurlex_1944848",
        "eurlex_1953473",
        "eurlex_1973899",
        "eurlex_1976278",
        "eurlex_2002307",
        "eurlex_2006693",
        "eurlex_2014867",
        "eurlex_2018301",
        "eurlex_2018302",
        "eurlex_2028817",
        "eurlex_2028818",
        "eurlex_2032137",
        "eurlex_2033606",
        "eurlex_2042094",
        "eurlex_2045379"
      ],
      "hand_labelled_third_party_count": 33,
      "other": "by first occurrence: 25 EU-owned credits (Commission, European Court of Auditors, ECB symbol, EUPL), 7 binary-garbage documents, and 32 glyph noise, list markers or trademark symbols",
      "binary_garbage_documents": [
        "eurlex_1995131",
        "eurlex_2016612",
        "eurlex_2025049",
        "eurlex_2025668",
        "eurlex_2025821",
        "eurlex_2026102",
        "eurlex_2026315"
      ],
      "note": "The credit lines name photographs, maps and data sources; the credited images are not in the text. The excerpts are short data citations (OECD, IEA, IHS Markit, CRU, McKinsey, Springer, IOTF)."
    },
    "author_header_categories": {
      "method": "regex on the first 3000 characters; counts in the scan file",
      "ecb_act": 1414,
      "eesc": 5154,
      "state_aid_sa": 2941,
      "un_ece_regulation": 253,
      "note": "Not third-party under the notice by themselves: they are texts of EU bodies or Commission notices. They matter only if those bodies' reuse terms differ (not checked). The audit's rough shares (ECB ~4%, state aid ~2.5%) do not reproduce with these patterns."
    },
    "not_found": "No large-scale reproduction of non-EU copyrighted works was found by these patterns. Recall for third-party text they do not target is unknown (Inferred).",
    "decision": "2026-10-06, maintainer: drop the 92 IASB-notice documents (Hub PR 71). The (c)-sign and author-header documents are reported only and kept."
  },
  "not_checked": [
    "SpeakLeash's terms for eurlex_corpus",
    "whether the ECB, EESC, Council, Parliament and the Court of Justice publish reuse terms of their own, and whether they differ from the notice",
    "the 'Unless otherwise specified' clause per document: only the IASB notice and the (c) sign were searched for",
    "Official Journal documents quoting national or private texts in annexes (e.g. UN ECE regulations, 253 documents by header; standards bodies' texts)",
    "the Publications Office's position on non-Commission documents (a lawyer question, #56 B5)"
  ]
}