EUCases end-user applicatins: EurCases, CnsumerCases and EULinksChecker Sfia, 24 June 2015 FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA
EUCases end-user applicatins verview One applicatin > tw services CnsumerCases Online legal infrmatin service prviding access t natinal legislatin and case law f 6 EU member states (Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdm) in the area f cnsumer law related t the applicatin f EU law EurCases Online legal infrmatin service prviding access t natinal case law f the EU member states related t the applicatin f EU law Tw applicatins > ne service EULinksChecker Installable add-in applicatins integrated in MS Wrd and Internet Explrer which interactively assist legal prfessinals in their research by identifying links and establishing cnnectins t EU legislatin and case law 2
FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA Presentatin f the web services CnsumerCases and EurCases
Multilingual web based legal infrmatin services Services prfile Building n the fundatin f the EUCases Linking Platfrm which transfrms legal pen data int linked pen data after semantic and structural analysis Ensuring access t natinal case law f six / all EU Member states linked t EU law / EU cnsumer law Offering crss-brder infrmatin abut cases in which EU prvisins r EU case law shuld apply Bth are niche services riented t the needs f legal prfessinals acrss Eurpe wh: Have gd cmmand f at least ne freign language f anther EU Member state, and Apply EU law in their everyday prfessinal activities 4
EUCases linked pen data life cycle Crawler tls RDF cnverters Akma Nts XML Cnverters EUCases Linking Platfrm Case summaris. & classific. tls Linking tls NLP tls 5
Natinal surces Cuntry Legislatin Case Law Austria RIS - Rechtsinfrmatinssystem RIS - Rechtsinfrmatinssystem France Legifrance Legifrance Germany United Kingdm Gesetze im Internet Verwaltungsvrschriften im Internet legislatin.gv.uk Bundesverfassungsgericht Bundesgerichtshf Bundesverwaltungsgericht Bundespatentgericht Bundesfinanzhf Bundesarbeitsgericht Bundesszialgericht The Supreme Curt Huse f Lrds judiciary.gv.uk Bulgaria State Gazette (dv.parliament.bg) Supreme Curt f Cassatin Supreme Administrative Curt Supreme Judicial Cuncil 6
EU and internatinal surces Jurisdictin Legislatin Case Law Eurpean Unin EUR-Lex prtal EUR-Lex prtal EU case law Natinal case law JURE database Prtal f the Curt f Justice f the EU Inf Lugan database Press releases Eurpean Curt f Human Rights Assciatin f the Cuncils f State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictins f the EU Dec.Nat database JuriFast database HUDOC database 7
Dwnladed and cnverted dcuments Jurisdictin/Surce Legislatin Case law Other Austria 20,768 691,778 Bulgaria 12,295 31,956 (frm 1,5 M) France 94,180 864,347 Germany 7,286 140,699 United Kingdm 98,989 1,9085 Eurpean Curt f Human Rights 97,891 Directry f Open Access Jurnals 1,121 Eurpean Unin EUR-Lex 340,978 125,099 Ttal 574,496 1,953,678 1,121 8
Dcuments with links t EU law Jurisdictin Number f dcuments with links t EU law Number f links t EU legislatin Number f links t EU case law Ttal number f links t EU law Austria 23,346 335,020 97,364 432,384 Bulgaria 31,406 417,752 114,176 531,928 Germany 14,576 267,088 102,804 369,892 France 27,421 342,964 31,552 374,516 United Kingdm 1,859 31,584 9,676 41,260 Eurpean Unin 365,313 6,344,172 1,710,504 8,054,676 Ttal 463,921 7,738,580 2,066,076 9,804,656 9
Natinal case law CnsumerCases: cntent scpe Mre than 10,000 judgments in the area f cnsumer law Natinal legislatin Laws and regulatins f the 6 EU member states cvered by the EUCases prject: Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and the UK Natinal implementing measures EU case law Mre than 450 cnsumer cases, mainly f the Curt f Justice EU legislatin Including legislative instruments regulating health prtectin and safety rules & standards fr prducts and services Articles frm pen access jurnals Mre than 100 articles referring t EU cnsumer law instruments 10
CnsumerCases Hme page 11
CnsumerCases: Natinal Implementing Measures fr Directive 2001/95/EC 12
Decree f the President f France fr transpsitin f Directive 2001/95/EC 13
CnsumerCases: Multilingual search 14
Natinal case law with EU relevance EurCases: cntent scpe Case law f the supreme and sme f the lwer instance curts f all EU Member States Mre than 100,000 judgments are available in full text in the language f the case Mst imprtant judgments are supplied with keywrds and summaries in English, French and/r German as well as bibligraphic metadata Internatinal case law (t be incrprated int the service sn) Case law f the Eurpean Curt f Human Rights in English and French Case law f the EFTA Curt in English EU case law Case law f the Curt f Justice f the EU in English, French, German and Bulgarian EU legislatin Treaties (EU primary law) Legislatin (EU secndary law) regulatins, directives, decisins, etc. Internatinal agreements with third cuntries and between the member states Dcuments are available in English, French, German and Bulgarian 15
EurCases Hme page 16
Case law dcuments in EurCases Jurisdictin Number f dcuments (*) Austria 23,363 Bulgaria 31,955 France 27,762 Germany 13,403 United Kingdm 1,882 Italy 3,561 Other EU Member States 13,326 Curt f Justice f the EU 36,191 Eurpean Curt f Human Rights 17,019 (**) Ttal 168,462 (*) In June 2015 (**) Will be incrprated in the final versin f the service 17
EurCases vs CnsumerCases Cntent EurCases CnsumerCases Natinal legislatin Natinal case law EU legislatin EU case law Case law f the ECtHR Areas f EU law cvered ALL 1 nly EU member states cvered ALL 6 ut f 28 Open access articles Autmated case classificatin summarisatin Editrial anntatin f cases 18
Searching Quick search Ggle like search in all dcuments in the database by entering a query in the search bar Advanced search in a drp-dwn panel by chsing search area and defining search criteria in cmbinatin with search text: Search in Case law by names f the parties, by case number, act number r ECLI-number, by jurisdictin, by dcument date r date range, by terms frm different thematic classifiers (Directry f EU case law, EurVc Thesaurus, Subject Matter and EurCases classifier) and thers Search in EU legislatin by publicatin reference (OJ date, number, page), by Celex r ELI number, by terms frm different thematic classifiers (Directry f EU legislatin, EurVc Thesaurus and Subject Matte) and thers Search within dcument s text when pening a dcument in the results list, all matches f the searched text are highlighted and can be walked trugh by the user My searches a list with the search queries perfrmed by the user prviding ptins fr editing and/r repeated executin f each search query 19
Advanced search in case law 20
Advanced search in EU legislatin 21
Wrking with lists f dcuments Viewing imprtant data abut dcuments: Title in the language f the dcument Dcument / Case number mst cmmnly used identifier f the dcument Cuntry / Jurisdictin frm which the dcument riginates Type f dcument icn indicating whether the dcument is legislative r judicial act Keywrds fr case law dcuments in ne r mre languages frm ne r mre surces Summary fr case law dcuments in ne r mre languages frm ne r mre surces Filtering reductin f the dcuments in the list t thse that crrespnd t the selected filter Exprting dcuments in PDF r RTF frmats Adding t My dcuments by checking the asterisk in the title bar abve the dcument Recent dcuments a list with the last 100 dcuments pened by the user 22
List f judgments f the German Federal Curt f Justice 23
Wrking with dcuments Dcument structure metadata, text, cntents and cnslidated versins Dcument anntatin and metadata Keywrds the imprtant natinal cases and the majrity f the judgments f the EU Curt f Justice are supplied with keywrds selected manually by legal editrs. Available in ne r mre languages frm ne r mre surces Summary nly the mst imprtant natinal cases and the majrity f the judgments f the EU Curt f Justice have editrial summaries in ne r mre languages frm ne r mre surces Press-releases natinal and EU cases f special imprtance fr the sciety, the legal dctrine and/r the legal cmmunity Publicatin reference in all EU legislative instruments Languages, frmats and link t OJ links t the available language versins in EUR-Lex f EU legislative and judicial acts as well as t the OJ publicatin Bibligraphic ntice fr dcuments with surce EUR-Lex it is identical with the ntice in this prtal. Fr natinal judgments it cntains: Metadata abut the dcument Classificatins by terms in the 4 classificatins schemes Publicatins and legal dctrine infrmatin abut publicatins f the text f the judgment and abut cmments in the dctrine References Treaty, Cre EU prvisins, Other referred EU prvisins, EU case law and links t ther judgments belnging t the case histry 24
Natinal case: keywrds and summary 25
Natinal case: bibligraphic ntice (1) 26
Natinal case: bibligraphic ntice (2) 27
EU legislative instrument: publicatin reference 28
EU legislative instrument: bibligraphic ntice (1) 29
EU legislative instrument: bibligraphic ntice (2) 30
Wrking with dcuments (cnt.) Links t EU law: Outbund links inline links with hint preview f the cited EU legislative instruments and case law f the Curt f Justice Inbund links references frm ther dcuments t a specific prvisin Search within dcument s text by using the small search bar abve the dcument title and the buttns fr first, next, previus and last matches Cmparisn f cnslidated versins frm the navigatin panel Print by using the standard print functin f the brwser Exprt int file in RTF- r PDF-frmat Language versins: Dcument text frm the cmmand bar abve the dcument title. Generally, this is pssible fr EU dcuments nly. It changes the language f the dcument text and the values in the metadata sectin (withut the metadata rubrics) Dcument metadata switching the interface language changes the rubrics (headings) in the metadata sectin Language preferences can be set frm the Settings 31
EU legislative instrument: inbund and utbund links Inbund links Outbund links 32
FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA Presentatin f EULinksChecker add-in tls fr MS Wrd and Internet Explrer
EULinksChecker prfile Installable add-in applicatins in the mst ppular brwsers, text editrs and PDF-viewers Internet Explrer, Mzilla Firefx and Ggle Chrme MS Wrd and OpenOffice Writer Adbe Acrbat Reader Assisting legal prfessinals while editing, brwsing r viewing dcuments by identifying and establishing links t EU law and EurVc thesaurus, and Offering them access t EU and natinal legislatin and case law based n the identified legal citatins and recgnised ntlgy terms 34
Search with MS Wrd add-in fr natinal case law referring t a prvisin f an EU legal instrument 35
List f natinal cases referring t the required prvisin Links t judgment s texts in EurCases service Links t the judgment s texts at the surce web pages 36
Judgment f the Austrian Supreme Curt f Justice in RIS legal prtal 37
Search with Internet Explrer add-in fr dcuments indexed with EurVc cncept Dienstleistung (service) 38
List f dcuments indexed with the EurVc cncept service 39
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