EU legal act

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concept

An EU legal act is a binding or non-binding instrument adopted by the European Union’s institutions—such as regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations, or opinions—to create, modify, or guide the application of law within the EU legal order.

All labels observed (71)

Label Occurrences
European Union directive 60
EU legal act canonical 30
legal act of the European Union 13

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: EU legal act
Generated description
An EU legal act is a binding or non-binding instrument adopted by the European Union’s institutions—such as regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations, or opinions—to create, modify, or guide the application of law within the EU legal order.

Instances (174)

Instance Via concept surface
Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004
Council Joint Action 98/428/JHA EU joint action
Council Framework Decisions on mutual recognition in criminal matters European Union legal instrument
Council Decision 2002/187/JHA (as amended)
EAW European Arrest Warrant
Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA European Union legal act
Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 EU law
Eurojust Regulation
European Union railway liberalization directives European Union directive package
EU adequacy decisions EU legal instrument
Council Joint Action 2007/369/CFSP EU Council Joint Action
Council Decision 2009/371/JHA
Europol Regulation
Directive 94/45/EC European Union directive
Council Decision 2001/80/CFSP European Union legal act
Council Decisions legal act of the European Union
Council Decision of the European Union European Union legal act
Large Combustion Plant Directive European Union directive
Council Decision 2019/408/CFSP European Union legal act
Law Enforcement Directive (EU) 2016/680 European Union directive
Directive 2003/4/EC European Union directive
Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information
surface form: Directive 2003/4/EC
European Union directive
Directive 2002/58/EC European Union directive
ePrivacy Directive European Union directive
Directive (EU) 2016/1148 (NIS Directive)
surface form: Directive (EU) 2016/1148
European Union directive
Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003
Advertising and Sponsorship Directive 2003/33/EC European Union directive
Statute of the European Ombudsman
Council Directive 79/409/EEC EU directive
Annex I (species requiring special conservation measures) EU environmental law instrument
Annex IV (prohibited means of capture and killing) component of EU directive
Combined Nomenclature European Union legal instrument
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 EU customs law instrument
Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/472 legal act of the European Union
Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/542 Council Decision of the European Union
REACH Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern European Union regulatory instrument
REACH Authorisation List (Annex XIV) European Union chemical regulation instrument
Council Joint Action 2004/551/CFSP EU joint action
EU solidarity clause European Union legal provision
PSI Directive European Union directive
Directive 2013/37/EU European Union directive
Directive (EU) 2019/1024 EU directive
EU Charter
surface form: EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
European Union law instrument
Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005
MSFD European Union directive
Visa Code EU legal act on visas
EU regulations European Union legal act
Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 EU asylum law instrument
Council Decision 2008/615/JHA EU Council decision
VIS Regulation EU law