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CELEX number
A CELEX number is the unique document identifier EUR-Lex assigns to every EU legal document, encoding its sector, year, document type and sequence number.
The GDPR is 32016R0679: sector 3 (legislation), year 2016, type R (regulation), number 0679. The Schrems II judgment is 62018CJ0311: sector 6 (case law), year 2018, CJ (Court of Justice judgment), case number 311.
Consolidated versions add a 0 sector prefix and a date suffix, for example 02016R0679-20160504. Corrigenda add R(01), R(02) and so on.
Arieta Data uses the CELEX number as the record id for every EU document, so records join cleanly with EUR-Lex, Cellar and LexAPI.
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EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex is the official online portal to EU law, run by the Publications Office of the European Union, giving free access to the Official Journal, legislation, case law and preparatory acts.
ELI (European Legislation Identifier)
The European Legislation Identifier (ELI) is a URI scheme and metadata model that gives legislation stable, human-readable web identifiers, such as http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj.
ECLI (European Case Law Identifier)
The European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) is a uniform identifier for court decisions across EU member states and EU courts, in the form ECLI:country:court:year:number.
Consolidated text
A consolidated text is a version of an act that merges the original with all its later amendments and corrigenda into one readable document; in most systems it is for information only, though some countries publish official consolidations.
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