EU Customs Legislation (Consolidated)

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Consolidated EU customs legislation — every consolidated version of every regulation, directive and decision in force that EUR-Lex itself files under directory chapter 02 Customs Union and free movement of goods and its sub-codes (general customs rules; the customs tariff, valuation and origin; tariff classification, suspensions, quotas and reliefs; movement of goods, including transit and export controls; economic customs arrangements; mutual assistance; proceedings and penalties; international customs cooperation), in English, taken from the Publications Office’s keyless CELLAR repository in the publisher’s own Formex XML. Measured on 24 August 2026: 376 consolidated versions of 134 acts — the Union Customs Code with its Delegated and Implementing Regulations, the Combined Nomenclature Regulation, the Dual-Use Regulation and the customs reliefs Regulation among them. Two size facts are stated rather than hidden: the Combined Nomenclature is released as seventeen articles and one annex record of about 1.9 million characters, chunked; and a document whose archive exceeds 16 MB — the transitional Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/341 in the version measured — is refused and counted rather than shipped. One record is one article or one annex, so a provision can be cited and retrieved on its own. Identity carries the date: a record’s key is the consolidated CELEX number, which names the act and the date its text was in force from, so the same article across successive consolidations is a series of records a buyer can diff. Each record states the act and its title, the consolidation date and layer, the ELI, whether a later consolidated version of the same act exists in the release, the Part/Title/Chapter it sits under, every amending act folded into the consolidation, and — read off the publisher’s own consolidation marks — which amending act changed that particular provision. Formulae published as images are omitted and counted. The directory codes that define the dataset ride on every record, so an act the publisher files under two of these datasets says so in both. Reuse rests on Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, and the source acknowledgement, the statement of what was changed and the notice that consolidated texts have no legal effect ride on every record. 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.