German Federal Legislation & Ordinances

Germany · अपडेट: daily · de-national-legislation

The consolidated federal statutes and ordinances of the Federal Republic of Germany, collected keyless from gesetze-im-internet.de — the Bundesamt für Justiz’s own daily table of contents, then each law’s official XML. One record is one provision, the § a German lawyer cites, rather than one act: the act’s citation abbreviation, long title, enactment date, gazette citation and the publisher’s own currency statements ride on every provision, and a derived citation joins each record to the rest of a buyer’s corpus. Structural headings, tables of contents and repealed tombstones are counted and skipped rather than shipped as empty records. No copyright subsists in the texts — UrhG § 5(1) — and the Datennutzungsgesetz bars a public body from invoking the database right against re-use and permits any commercial purpose; all three provisions are cited in every record, next to the publisher’s own note that a consolidated text is not the authoritative promulgated version. Every record carries its source URL, fetch timestamp, HTTP status and the SHA-256 of both the raw response and the extracted record. Every release ships a manifest with every file’s SHA-256 and a Merkle root over every chunk hash, which the buyer can recompute from the downloaded files. record_id and chunk_id are stable across releases. Personal data is screened out inside the pipeline before any hash is computed.