EU Regulatory Change Records — EUR-Lex Legal Acts

Official source. No API key. Pay per record.

This actor turns the EU's own legal database — the Publications Office CELLAR repository behind EUR-Lex — into clean, per-act records. Each run queries the official CELLAR SPARQL endpoint and delivers one row per EU legal act: the CELEX number, the act type (regulation, directive, decision), the document and entry-into-force dates, the issuing institution, and — crucially — the acts it amends or repeals. That last part is what makes this a regulatory change feed rather than a document dump: it captures how the EU rulebook is being rewritten, act by act.

What this is, in one paragraph

Every EU legal act is published through CELLAR, the Publications Office's semantic repository, and exposed through a public SPARQL endpoint. This actor queries that endpoint for regulations, directives, and decisions in a date window, newest first, and flattens each into a single analysis-ready row: what it is, when it was adopted and takes effect, who issued it, and which earlier acts it amends or repeals (by CELEX). Values are verbatim. You are billed only for records actually delivered.

Who buys this and for what job

• Regulatory-affairs and compliance teams tracking changes to EU law in their domain — and, through the amends/repeals links, seeing exactly which existing rules each change touches.
• Legal-tech and RegTech products ingesting a structured EU legislative-change feed to power alerts and dashboards.
• Law firms and consultancies monitoring new EU regulations and directives by type and date for clients.
• Analysts and data engineers who want a keyless, one-call feed of EU legal acts already reduced to document-level fields with relationships.

Licence — EU reuse policy, commercial use permitted

EU legal acts in CELLAR are reused under the EU reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU), which permits free reuse — including commercial — with acknowledgement of source. Every record carries the required attribution: "© European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu — reuse authorised with acknowledgement of source (Decision 2011/833/EU)." One honest boundary travels on every record: only the Official Journal edition is authentic, so for legal reliance verify against EUR-Lex. These are metadata records for regulatory tracking, not legal advice.

Document grain — no person data

EU legal acts are issued by institutions (the Council, the Commission, the Parliament), not individuals, so this feed is document and organization grain by nature. The actor emits the act, its dates, its institutional authors, and its relationships — never a natural person. As a structural safeguard, the title field is still scrubbed of any email or phone pattern before emit, and a person-key guard runs on every record; a live sweep over real CELLAR acts emits zero contact data.

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
regulatory_change_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
types	string list	Regulation, Directive, Decision	Which act types to pull.
since	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	90 days ago	Keep only acts with a document date on or after this date.
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

The actor queries the CELLAR SPARQL endpoint newest-first and paginates its result window.

Output

One JSON object per act. Example (values verbatim):

{
  "record_id": "32026R1844",
  "celex": "32026R1844",
  "act_type": "Regulation",
  "title": "Council Regulation (EU) 2026/1844 on market surveillance",
  "document_date": "2026-08-06",
  "entry_into_force_date": "2026-08-26",
  "end_of_validity_date": null,
  "authors": ["Council of the European Union", "European Parliament"],
  "amends_celex": ["32019R1020", "32020R0740"],
  "repeals_celex": [],
  "source": "EU Publications Office (CELLAR / EUR-Lex)",
  "source_url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32026R1844",
  "licence": "EU legal acts ... Commission Decision 2011/833/EU ... free reuse ... with acknowledgement ...",
  "attribution": "© European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu — reuse authorised with acknowledgement of source (Decision 2011/833/EU).",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-19T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the types and date window, acts seen and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is a flat set of legislative-tracking fields. Identity: record_id / celex and act_type. Substance: title (the English title where CELLAR carries one). Timing: document_date, entry_into_force_date, and end_of_validity_date. Who issued it: authors — EU institutions, never a person. Change relationships: amends_celex and repeals_celex, each a list of CELEX numbers, so you can trace exactly which earlier acts a change affects. Provenance: source, source_url (a direct EUR-Lex link), licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the source's robots policy from your runtime and confirms the SPARQL path is allowed (the Publications Office robots file carries Allow: / and does not disallow the /webapi/rdf/sparql endpoint). It then builds a single SPARQL query from your act types and date window, grouped so each act comes back as exactly one row — with its amends and repeals links concatenated per act rather than fanning out into duplicate rows. Acts are read newest-first, each flattened to one record and delivered before it is charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor pages through the result window with LIMIT/OFFSET, de-duplicates by CELEX as a safety net, pauses briefly between pages, and stops as soon as your maxRecords ceiling is reached. The receipt's charge_equals_delivered flag confirms you were billed for exactly what you received.

Cost guidance

One regulatory_change_record per delivered act: cost = acts delivered × your plan's per-record price. The CELLAR corpus holds well over a hundred thousand regulations alone, but this feed is scoped by date window, so a typical run — the last quarter of regulations, directives, and decisions — is a few hundred to a couple thousand acts. 1,000 acts is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold).

Honest limitations

• Only the Official Journal edition is authentic. For legal reliance, verify against EUR-Lex; this is the machine-readable metadata.
• Document grain. Full act text is not included — this is the act record plus its dates, authors, and amends/repeals links.
• Titles are English where CELLAR carries an English expression; some corrigenda and very recent items may lack one.
• Point-in-time. In-force status and validity dates change; re-run to refresh.

Differentiation

Distinct from the sibling federal-rulemaking-records (US Federal Register): different jurisdiction (EU vs US), different source (CELLAR/EUR-Lex vs Federal Register), and a legislative-change grain with explicit amends/repeals links. It is also distinct from eu-tender-bid-signals (EU TED): tenders are procurement notices, not legal acts. The established EUR-Lex ecosystem — the incumbent legislative-tracking tools that regulatory teams already pay for — is the demand evidence this feed is built for; this actor is an independent, keyless, per-record source, not a copy of any of them.

The NexGen Signal family

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Source: EU Publications Office CELLAR repository (publications.europa.eu) via its public SPARQL endpoint. Reused under the EU reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) — free reuse with acknowledgement of source. Only the Official Journal edition is authentic. Reformatted to document-level records; values verbatim; no person data emitted.