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 of the legal document.
- category: Category identifier of the legal document (e.g.,
category15). - year: Year the legal document was published.
- primary_language: Language code of the document (e.g.,
de). - metadata: Document header and front-matter text extracted from the source.
- text: Full document text content, excluding metadata.
- is_table: Boolean indicating whether any page in the document contains a table.
- is_diagram: Boolean indicating whether any page in the document contains a diagram.
- rotation_correction: Maximum absolute rotation correction (in degrees) applied across document pages.
- is_rotation_valid: Boolean indicating whether rotation correction was valid for all pages.
- pdf_path: Relative path to the original PDF file of the document.
- pdf_total_pages: Total number of pages in the original PDF document.
"languages
The dataset covers the 24 official "languages of the European Union:
- Bulgarian (BG)
- Croatian (HR)
- Czech (CS)
- 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
- Source: EUR-Lex – Access to European Union Law
- Category: 15.10 Environment (under directory 15: Environment, Consumers and Health Protection)
- Website: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/browse/directories/legislation.html
- Years Covered: 1961 to 2025
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