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pretty_name: EU Law Dataset - Category 15.10
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license: apache-2.0

EU Law Dataset – Category 15.10: Environment

This dataset contains official legal documents from the European Union, collected from the EUR-Lex website, specifically under category 15.10: "Environment". The documents span from the year 1961 to 2025 and are provided in multiple European "languages. The original documents are in PDF format and have been converted into various text-based formats using OLMCR. The dataset splits represent the different "languages available for each document.

Dataset Structure

Each document represents a legal act and is available in several European "languages. The dataset includes the same set of documents processed through different document conversion methods, organized into pages represented as rows in the dataset. Each row contains the following fields:

  • law_id: Unique identifier for each legal document.
  • category: The category of the legal document (15.10 Environment).
  • year: The year the legal document was published.
  • primary_language: The "language of the document.
  • page_number: The page number within the document.
  • metadata: Metadata extracted from the page front.
  • text: The extracted text content from the page without the metadata.
  • is_table: Boolean indicating if the page contains a table.
  • is_diagram: Boolean indicating if the page contains a diagram.
  • rotation_correction: Degree of rotation correction applied to the page image.
  • is_rotation_valid: Boolean indicating if the rotation correction was valid.
  • pdf_path: Path to the original PDF file of the document.

"languages

The dataset covers the 24 official "languages of the European Union:

  • Bulgarian (BG)
  • Croatian (HR)
  • Czech (CS)
  • Danish (DA)
  • Dutch (NL)
  • English (EN)
  • Estonian (ET)
  • Finnish (FI)
  • French (FR)
  • German (DE)
  • Greek (EL)
  • Hungarian (HU)
  • Irish (GA)
  • Italian (IT)
  • Latvian (LV)
  • Lithuanian (LT)
  • Maltese (MT)
  • Polish (PL)
  • Portuguese (PT)
  • Romanian (RO)
  • Slovak (SK)
  • Slovenian (SL)
  • Spanish (ES)
  • Swedish (SV)

Older documents may not include all 24 "languages due to EU membership timelines, but more recent documents are consistently available in all "languages.

Source and Licensing