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# 🇪🇺 EU-RLEX Legislation Dataset (Collected Until June 20, 2025)

## 📘 Overview

This dataset provides structured and accessible European Union legislation data collected from [EUR-Lex](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/) up to **June 20, 2025**. It is maintained by **GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance** to support open legal data research, machine learning applications, and transparency initiatives.

The dataset includes:

- **Metadata** in a structured Parquet file
- **Full-text content** of legislation documents in Markdown format

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## 📁 Dataset Structure

### 1. `eurlex_legislation_data.parquet`

A table containing metadata for each legislation document.

**Columns:**
- `title`: Title of the legislation
- `document_link`: URL to the official document or PDF
- `el_html_link`: Link to the HTML version on EUR-Lex
- `category_id`: Category id
- `category_title`: Title of category
- `category_acts_count`: number of acts that belong to this category
  

> 🧠 **Note:** The row index matches each corresponding Markdown file (e.g., row 0 → `md_0.md`).

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### 2. Markdown Files (`md_*.md`)

Each file contains the cleaned full text of a single legislation document, converted from HTML.

- Naming format: `md_0.md`, `md_1.md`, ..., `md_N.md`
- One-to-one mapping with rows in `metadata.parquet`

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### 3. 📊 Dataset Statistics
- Total tokens: 604032339
- Uncompressed size: 2.21GB
- Words Count: 137750006

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## 🔓 License & Usage

This dataset is **open and free to use** under the terms of EUR-Lex’s [Legal Notice](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice.html). Please attribute EUR-Lex as the original source.

**Published by:**
**GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance**

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## 🙌 Acknowledgements

Special thanks to the **Publications Office of the European Union** for making this data publicly available via the [EUR-Lex portal](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/).

**Gated Access**

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