Since existing large-scale studies on EU regulation only count the number of laws adopted without accounting for their actual contents, this project set out to provide a more fine-grained measurement. The scope of this project is:
- to develop software scripts that download data on EU law and the laws themselves (some 180,000 Directives, Decisions and Regulations), and that classifies sentence by sentence whether it is an obligation, and to whom.
- to make those scripts and the data generated by it publicly available
- to analyse developments in the nature of EU rules
The project was kick-started as a collaboration between Radboud University and the Netherlands eScience Centre.
The nature of EU rules
- Duration
- 1 January 2023 until 31 December 2028
- Project member(s)
- Dr G.J. Brandsma (Gijs Jan) , Jens Blom-Hansen (Aarhus University) , Kody Moodley (Netherlands eScience Centre)
- Project type
- Research
Results
Please find project results via the links below:
The computer scripts for downloading and analysing the contents of EU law:
https://github.com/nature-of-eu-rules and https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/YZHIsXdD9t6iRpy
The project website at the Netherlands eScience Centre:
https://research-software-directory.org/projects/the-nature-of-eu-rules-strict-and-detailed-or-lacking-bite
Raw data and raw training data for a subset of EU law (raw data for the complete set can be obtained running the pipeline of scripts):
https://zenodo.org/records/8200001
Funding
Radboud Excellence Initiative & Netherlands eScience Centre
Partners
Radboud University, Netherlands eScience Centre