EU Consumer Protection & Product Safety Legislation (Consolidated)

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Consolidated EU consumer-protection and product-safety legislation — every consolidated version of every regulation, directive and decision in force that EUR-Lex itself files under directory chapter 15.20 Consumers and its sub-codes (general; consumer information, education and representation; protection of health and safety; protection of economic interests), in English, taken from the Publications Office’s keyless CELLAR repository in the publisher’s own Formex XML. Measured on 24 August 2026: 685 consolidated versions of 235 acts — the Unfair Contract Terms, Unfair Commercial Practices, Consumer Rights, Consumer Credit 2008/48, Price Indication, Package Travel and Sale of Goods Directives, the new Product Liability Directive 2024/2853, the Representative Actions Directive in six versions, the Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation in five, the General Product Safety Regulation, the Medical Devices and In Vitro Diagnostics Regulations, the Toy Safety Directive in twelve versions, and the Digital Markets Act and Platform-to-Business Regulation, which the publisher files at the chapter root, among them. The scope was measured rather than assumed: sub-code 15.20.30 Protection of health and safety is 369 of the 685 versions and is also where the publisher files the General Food Law, the Official Controls and Food Information Regulations, 45 GMO authorisation decisions and 19 EU Ecolabel criteria decisions; the whole chapter is taken because product safety is filed nowhere else, and those food and labelling acts ride along here and are shared with the EU food dataset. Stated rather than hidden: the 1985 Product Liability Directive has no English Formex consolidation, and the Consumer Credit Directive 2023/2225, the Digital Content Directive and the ODR Regulation have never been amended, so the publisher has no consolidated version of them. 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.