README

EU law for omnisense/omnilex, from the Publications Office's open access to Cellar, the repository behind EUR-Lex: an act in its consolidated version at a date, one article of it, a judgment of the Court of Justice by its ECLI, the links between acts and judgments, what is new. No key.

$eurlex = (new EurlexSourceFactory($http))->create(['language' => 'fr']);

$gdpr = $eurlex->text('32016R0679', new DateTimeImmutable('2018-06-01'));
$gdpr->title;                         // Règlement (UE) 2016/679 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 27 avril 2016 ...
$gdpr->version->id;                   // 02016R0679-20160504: the consolidated version of that day
$gdpr->versions;                      // as published, then each consolidated version

$eurlex->article('32016R0679', '17')->title;          // Droit à l'effacement («droit à l'oubli»)

$judgment = $eurlex->decision('ECLI:EU:C:2014:317');  // Google Spain, C-131/12
$judgment->citations;                                 // interprets 31995L0046; cites 62012CJ0473...

$eurlex->citations('32016R0679', 20);                 // what the regulation cites, what cites it
$eurlex->recent(new DateTimeImmutable('-14 days'), new Query(kind: Kind::DECISION, jurisdictions: ['CJ'], types: ['JUDG']));

omnilex:
    sources:
        eurlex: { factory: eurlex, options: { language: fr } }

Install

composer require omnilex/eurlex

It brings the family's core, omnisense/omnilex, and omnisense/contracts with it. No account and no key: the Publications Office's endpoint is open (below, and policy.json). $http is HttpClient::create() in plain PHP.

What you need to obtain

Nothing: the endpoint is open, without a key nor an account. The conditions of re-use are those of EUR-Lex's legal notice: read it before publishing these texts, and name the source.

Option
`language`	ISO 639-1, one of the 24 official languages: titles, labels and texts (`fr`)
`content`	`false`: `text()` and `decision()` do not fetch the text itself (one call less, up to a few megabytes)
`throttle`	seconds between two calls (0.5)
`base_uri`, `resource_uri`	the SPARQL endpoint and the resources, to override

Consolidated versions are documentary tools: only the texts published in the Official Journal of the European Union are authentic.

Verified against the real service on 2026-10-04 (see docs/).

Usage policy

Declared as data in policy.json (its pages could not be read on 2026-11-10 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice.html): see the notes in the file), and honoured on every request by the core: a limit reached waits when its window ends within max_wait seconds, else the request is not sent (Usage policies).

Limits: not published (unknown).
Licence: CC-BY-4.0; commercial use: allowed.
Needs: nothing.

Responsibility

This package is an independent, unofficial client: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Publications Office of the European Union (EUR-Lex). It reaches their service on behalf of whoever runs it, and it does not redistribute their data beyond the short excerpts recorded as test fixtures. Its MIT licence covers this package's code only and grants no right to the service or to its data.

Whoever installs and runs this package is responsible for complying with EUR-Lex's terms (EUR-Lex's legal notice), for obtaining whatever they require (an account, a key, a licence or subscription, an attribution or a citation, a rate limit to respect), and for any use made of what it returns. The authors publish it free of charge, make no commercial use of it, and accept no liability for how it is used (see LICENSE).

License: MIT since 2026-10-09; earlier versions remain published under LGPL-3.0-or-later.

omnilex / eurlex

Package info

Security

Statistics

README

Install

What you need to obtain

Usage policy

Responsibility