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eu_regulatory_ir

document_id stringlengths 10 10	publication_year stringclasses 30 values	text stringlengths 1.04k 256k	relevant_documents sequencelengths 1 40
31977L0539	1977	Council Directive 77/539/EEC of 28 June 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to reversing lamps for motor vehicles and their trailers Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Co...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31977L0538	1977	Council Directive 77/538/EEC of 28 June 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to rear fog lamps for motor vehicles and their trailers Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Com...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31977L0540	1977	Council Directive 77/540/EEC of 28 June 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to parking lamps for motor vehicles Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having rega...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31977L0504	1977	Council Directive 77/504/EEC of 25 July 1977 on pure- bred breeding animals of the bovine species Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43 and 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parl...	[ "UKSI19922370" ]
31977L0649	1977	Council Directive 77/649/EEC of 27 September 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the field of vision of motor vehicle drivers Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commis...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31977L0794	1977	Commission Directive 77/794/EEC of 4 November 1977 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Directive 76/308/EEC on mutual assistance for the recovery of claims resulting from operations forming part of the system of financing the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, and of agricu...	[ "UKPGA19770036", "UKPGA19800048" ]
31977L0799	1977	Council Directive 77/799/EEC of 19 December 1977 concerning mutual assistance by the competent authorities of the Member States in the field of direct taxation Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commiss...	[ "UKPGA19780042" ]
31977L0805	1977	Council Directive 77/805/EEC of 19 December 1977 amending Directive 72/464/EEC on taxes, other than turnover taxes, which affect the consumption of manufactured tobacco Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 99 and 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal...	[ "UKPGA19770036" ]
31978L0317	1977	COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 21 December 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the defrosting and demisting systems of glazed surfaces of motor vehicles (78/317/EEC) Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard t...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31978L0318	1977	Council Directive 78/318/EEC of 21 December 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the wiper and washer systems of motor vehicles Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commi...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31978L0316	1977	Council Directive 78/316/EEC of 21 December 1977 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the interior fittings of motor vehicles (identification of controls, tell-tales and indicators) Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 ther...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31978L0176	1978	Council Directive 78/176/EEC of 20 February 1978 on waste from the titanium dioxide industry Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 100 and 235 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliame...	[ "UKPGA19740040" ]
31978L0319	1978	Council Directive 78/319/EEC of 20 March 1978 on toxic and dangerous waste Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 100 and 235 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1), Having reg...	[ "UKSI19810196" ]
31978L0420	1978	Council Directive 78/420/EEC of 2 May 1978 amending Second Directive 75/319/EEC on the approximation of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action relating to proprietary medicinal products Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 the...	[ "UKSI19771038", "UKSI19771055" ]
31978L0632	1978	Commission Directive 78/632/EEC of 19 May 1978 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 74/60/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the interior fittings of motor vehicles (interior parts of the passenger compartment other than the interior rear-view mirrors, layout of controls, ...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31978L0507	1978	Commission Directive 78/507/EEC of 19 May 1978 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 76/114/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to statutory plates and inscriptions for motor vehicles and their trailers, and their location and method of attachment Having regard to the Treaty e...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31978L0548	1978	Council Directive 78/548/EEC of 12 June 1978 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to heating systems for the passenger compartment of motor vehicles Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal f...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31978L0549	1978	Council Directive 78/549/EEC of 12 June 1978 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the wheel guards of motor vehicles Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having re...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31978L0665	1978	Commission Directive 78/665/EEC of 14 July 1978 adapting to technical progress Directive 70/220/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to measures to be taken against pollution of the air by gases from positive ignition engines installed in motor vehicles Having regard to the Treaty establi...	[ "UKSI19801182" ]
31978L0659	1978	Council Directive 78/659/EEC of 18 July 1978 on the quality of fresh waters needing protection or improvement in order to support fish life Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 100 and 235 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having...	[ "UKSI19971331", "UKPGA19750051", "UKPGA19740040" ]

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Dataset Summary

The European Union (EU) has a legislation scheme analogous to regulatory compliance for organizations. According to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), all published EU directives must take effect at the national level. Thus, all EU member states must adopt a law to transpose a newly issued directive within the period set by the directive (typically 2 years).

Here, we have two datasets, EU2UK and UK2EU, containing EU directives and UK regulations, which can serve both as queries and documents under the ground truth assumption that a UK law is relevant to the EU directives it transposes and vice versa.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

The dataset supports:

EU2UK (eu2uk): Given an EU directive Q, retrieve the set of relevant documents from the pool of all available UK regulations. Relevant documents are those that transpose the EU directive (Q).

UK2EU (uk2eu): Given a UK regulation Q, retrieve the set of relevant documents from the pool of all available EU directives. Relevant documents are those that are being transposed by the UK regulations (Q).

Languages

All documents are written in English.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
  "document_id": "31977L0794",
  "publication_year": "1977",
  "text": "Commission Directive 77/794/EEC ... of agricultural levies and customs duties",
  "relevant_documents": ["UKPGA19800048", "UKPGA19770036"]
}

Data Fields

The following data fields are provided for query documents (train, dev, test):

document_id: (str) The ID of the document.
publication_year: (str) The publication year of the document.
text: (str) The text of the document.
relevant_documents: (List[str]) The list of relevant documents, as represented by their document_id.

The following data fields are provided for corpus documents (corpus):

document_id: (str) The ID of the document.
publication_year: (str) The publication year of the document.
text: (str) The text of the document.\

Data Splits

EU2UK dataset

Split	No of Queries	Avg. relevant documents
Train	1,400	1.79
Development	300	2.09
Test	300	1.74
Document Pool (Corpus): 52,515 UK regulations

UK2EU dataset

Split	No of Queries	Avg. relevant documents
Train	1,500	1.90
Development	300	1.46
Test	300	1.29
Document Pool (Corpus): 3,930 EU directives

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

The dataset was curated by Chalkidis et al. (2021).
The transposition pairs are publicly available by the Publications Office of EU (https://publications.europa.eu/en).

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The original data are available at EUR-Lex portal (https://eur-lex.europa.eu) and Legislation.GOV.UK (http://legislation.gov.uk/) in an unprocessed format.
The transposition pairs are provided by the EU member states (in our case, UK) and were downloaded from the SPARQL endpoint of the Publications Office of EU (http://publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql).\ For more information on the dataset curation, read Chalkidis et al. (2021).

Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed]

Annotations

Annotation process

The original data are available at EUR-Lex portal (https://eur-lex.europa.eu) and Legislation.GOV.UK (http://legislation.gov.uk/) in an unprocessed format.
The transposition pairs are provided by the EU member states (in our case, UK) and were downloaded from the SPARQL endpoint of the Publications Office of EU (http://publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql).

Who are the annotators?

Publications Office of EU (https://publications.europa.eu/en)

Personal and Sensitive Information

The dataset does not include personal or sensitive information.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Chalkidis et al. (2021)

Licensing Information

EU Data

The Commission’s document reuse policy is based on Decision 2011/833/EU. Unless otherwise specified, you can re-use the legal documents published in EUR-Lex for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

The copyright for the editorial content of this website, the summaries of EU legislation and the consolidated texts, which is owned by the EU, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence . This means that you can re-use the content provided you acknowledge the source and indicate any changes you have made.

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice.html
Read more: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/help/faq/reuse-contents-eurlex.html

UK Data

You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under this licence freely and flexibly, with only a few conditions.

You are free to:

copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
adapt the Information;
exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application.

You must (where you do any of the above):

acknowledge the source of the Information in your product or application by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Citation Information

Ilias Chalkidis, Manos Fergadiotis, Nikos Manginas, Eva Katakalou and Prodromos Malakasiotis. Regulatory Compliance through Doc2Doc Information Retrieval: A case study in EU/UK legislation where text similarity has limitations Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021). Online. 2021

@inproceedings{chalkidis-etal-2021-regir,
    title = "Regulatory Compliance through Doc2Doc Information Retrieval: A case study in EU/UK legislation where text similarity has limitations",
    author = "Chalkidis, Ilias  and Fergadiotis, Manos and Manginas, Nikos and Katakalou, Eva,  and Malakasiotis, Prodromos",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021)",
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10726",
}