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  "$description": "Controlled vocabularies. Every enum-valued field in every other dataset resolves to a term here. IDs are namespaced <dimension>:<slug> and are never renamed.",
  "$last_verified": "2026-08-27",
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      "id": "actor:controller",
      "label": "Controller",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "GDPR Art. 4(7)."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:processor",
      "label": "Processor",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "GDPR Art. 4(8)."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:data-subject",
      "label": "Data subject",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "The protected party under the GDPR."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:intermediary",
      "label": "Intermediary service",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "DSA base tier: mere conduit, caching, hosting."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:hosting-provider",
      "label": "Hosting service",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": "actor:intermediary",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:online-platform",
      "label": "Online platform",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": "actor:hosting-provider",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:vlop",
      "label": "Very large online platform",
      "definition_ref": "gl-vlop",
      "parent": "actor:online-platform",
      "note": "45m+ average monthly active EU recipients, designated by the Commission."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:vlose",
      "label": "Very large online search engine",
      "definition_ref": "gl-vlose",
      "parent": "actor:intermediary",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:gatekeeper",
      "label": "Gatekeeper",
      "definition_ref": "gl-gatekeeper",
      "parent": null,
      "note": "DMA Art. 3 designation."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:business-user",
      "label": "Business user",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Protected party under the DMA."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:end-user",
      "label": "End user",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:recipient-of-service",
      "label": "Recipient of the service",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Protected party under the DSA."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:trader",
      "label": "Trader",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Marketplace seller subject to DSA traceability duties."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:minor",
      "label": "Minor",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:ai-provider",
      "label": "AI provider",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "AI Act Art. 3(3)."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:ai-deployer",
      "label": "AI deployer",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "AI Act Art. 3(4)."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:ai-importer",
      "label": "AI importer",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:ai-distributor",
      "label": "AI distributor",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:gpai-provider",
      "label": "GPAI model provider",
      "definition_ref": "gl-gpai",
      "parent": "actor:ai-provider",
      "note": "AI Act Chapter V."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:affected-person",
      "label": "Affected person",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Protected party under the AI Act."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:data-holder",
      "label": "Data holder",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Data Act."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:data-recipient",
      "label": "Data recipient",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Data Act."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:user",
      "label": "User",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Protected party under the Data Act."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:cloud-provider",
      "label": "Provider of data processing services",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Data Act Chapter VI; covers IaaS, PaaS and SaaS."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:manufacturer",
      "label": "Manufacturer",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:connected-product-provider",
      "label": "Connected-product provider",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": "actor:manufacturer",
      "note": "Data Act Art. 3."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:pde-manufacturer",
      "label": "Manufacturer of a product with digital elements",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": "actor:manufacturer",
      "note": "Cyber Resilience Act."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:essential-entity",
      "label": "Essential entity",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "NIS2 Annex I."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:important-entity",
      "label": "Important entity",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "NIS2 Annex II."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:critical-entity",
      "label": "Critical entity",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "CER Directive."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:financial-entity",
      "label": "Financial entity",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "DORA."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:ict-third-party-provider",
      "label": "ICT third-party service provider",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "DORA; includes critical ICT providers subject to the oversight framework."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:sme",
      "label": "SME",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Small or medium-sized enterprise as defined in Recommendation 2003/361/EC."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:large-company",
      "label": "Large company",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:public-authority",
      "label": "Public authority",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:researcher",
      "label": "Researcher",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Including vetted researchers under DSA Art. 40(4)."
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:member-state",
      "label": "Member State",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "actor:critical-sector",
      "label": "Critical-sector organisation",
      "definition_ref": null,
      "parent": null,
      "note": "Umbrella term used by the applicability engine. Covers NIS2 essential and important entities and CER critical entities; which of those an organisation is depends on sector and size."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "activity:processing-personal-data",
      "label": "Processing personal data"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:hosting-user-content",
      "label": "Hosting user content"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:online-platform-activity",
      "label": "Operating an online platform"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:marketplace-activity",
      "label": "Operating an online marketplace"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:recommender-systems",
      "label": "Operating recommender systems"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:online-advertising",
      "label": "Serving online advertising"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:search",
      "label": "Operating a search engine"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:social-networking",
      "label": "Operating a social networking service"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:video-sharing",
      "label": "Operating a video-sharing platform"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:communications-services",
      "label": "Providing interpersonal communications services"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:operating-systems",
      "label": "Providing an operating system"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:browsers",
      "label": "Providing a web browser"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:virtual-assistants",
      "label": "Providing a virtual assistant"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:ai-development",
      "label": "Developing AI systems"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:ai-deployment",
      "label": "Deploying AI systems"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:gpai-provision",
      "label": "Placing a general-purpose AI model on the market"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:cloud-services",
      "label": "Cloud or data processing services"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:connected-products",
      "label": "Placing connected products on the market"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:product-with-digital-elements",
      "label": "Placing products with digital elements on the market"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:digital-identity",
      "label": "Providing digital identity services"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:critical-infrastructure-operation",
      "label": "Critical cybersecurity / essential infrastructure"
    },
    {
      "id": "activity:financial-services-ict",
      "label": "Operating ICT for financial services"
    }
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    {
      "id": "sector:manufacturing",
      "label": "Manufacturing"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:automotive",
      "label": "Automotive"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:energy",
      "label": "Energy"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:transport",
      "label": "Transport"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:banking",
      "label": "Banking"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:financial-market-infrastructure",
      "label": "Financial market infrastructure"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:health",
      "label": "Health"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:water",
      "label": "Drinking and waste water"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:digital-infrastructure",
      "label": "Digital infrastructure"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:ict-service-management",
      "label": "ICT service management"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:public-administration",
      "label": "Public administration"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:space",
      "label": "Space"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:postal",
      "label": "Postal and courier services"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:waste",
      "label": "Waste management"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:chemicals",
      "label": "Chemicals"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:food",
      "label": "Food"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:research",
      "label": "Research"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:retail",
      "label": "Retail and e-commerce"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:media",
      "label": "Media and online platforms"
    },
    {
      "id": "sector:cross-sector",
      "label": "Cross-sector"
    }
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    {
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      "label": "Established in the EU"
    },
    {
      "id": "territory:eea",
      "label": "Established in the EEA"
    },
    {
      "id": "territory:non-eu-serving-eu",
      "label": "Outside the EU, serving EU users"
    }
  ],
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      "id": "kind:regulation",
      "label": "Regulation",
      "note": "Directly applicable in all Member States. No transposition."
    },
    {
      "id": "kind:directive",
      "label": "Directive",
      "note": "Requires national transposition. Obligations bite at national, not EU, dates."
    },
    {
      "id": "kind:proposal",
      "label": "Proposal",
      "note": "Not binding law. Must never be presented as an Act."
    },
    {
      "id": "kind:delegated-regulation",
      "label": "Delegated regulation"
    },
    {
      "id": "kind:implementing-decision",
      "label": "Implementing decision"
    },
    {
      "id": "kind:code-of-practice",
      "label": "Code of practice",
      "note": "Voluntary unless and until made binding."
    },
    {
      "id": "kind:treaty-provision",
      "label": "Treaty provision"
    },
    {
      "id": "kind:report",
      "label": "Report or communication",
      "note": "Not legislation."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "status:proposal",
      "label": "Proposal",
      "note": "Published by the Commission. Not law."
    },
    {
      "id": "status:parliament-position",
      "label": "Parliament position adopted"
    },
    {
      "id": "status:council-position",
      "label": "Council position or general approach"
    },
    {
      "id": "status:trilogue",
      "label": "In trilogue"
    },
    {
      "id": "status:political-agreement",
      "label": "Political agreement reached"
    },
    {
      "id": "status:adopted",
      "label": "Adopted"
    },
    {
      "id": "status:published",
      "label": "Published in the Official Journal"
    },
    {
      "id": "status:in-force",
      "label": "In force",
      "note": "Legally binding. NOT the same as applicable: obligations may not yet bite, in whole or in part."
    },
    {
      "id": "status:applicable",
      "label": "Applicable",
      "note": "Obligations bite. For staggered instruments, see milestones rather than this scalar."
    },
    {
      "id": "status:partly-applicable",
      "label": "Partly applicable",
      "note": "Some tranches of obligations apply and others do not. Use milestones to see which."
    },
    {
      "id": "status:transposition-pending",
      "label": "Transposition pending",
      "note": "Directives only. See the per-Member-State transposition block."
    },
    {
      "id": "status:transposition-overdue",
      "label": "Transposition overdue",
      "note": "Directives only. The transposition deadline has passed and transposition is not complete in every Member State; see the status note, the milestones and the per-Member-State transposition block. The obligations that bind a reader are still the national ones."
    },
    {
      "id": "status:amended",
      "label": "Amended"
    },
    {
      "id": "status:repealed",
      "label": "Repealed"
    },
    {
      "id": "status:withdrawn",
      "label": "Withdrawn"
    },
    {
      "id": "status:stalled",
      "label": "Stalled",
      "note": "In the legislative process but without a path forward at the recorded date."
    }
  ],
  "scope_class": [
    {
      "id": "scope:core",
      "label": "Core",
      "note": "Analysed at length in this brief."
    },
    {
      "id": "scope:adjacent",
      "label": "Adjacent",
      "note": "Part of the EU digital acquis, mapped and profiled here but not analysed at length."
    },
    {
      "id": "scope:referenced",
      "label": "Referenced",
      "note": "Named and placed, but outside this brief's analytical scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "scope:out-of-scope",
      "label": "Outside current scope",
      "note": "Explicitly not covered."
    }
  ],
  "event_type": [
    {
      "id": "event:entry-into-force",
      "label": "Entry into force",
      "note": "The instrument becomes legally binding. Distinct from application."
    },
    {
      "id": "event:application",
      "label": "Application date",
      "note": "Obligations begin to bite. Distinct from entry into force."
    },
    {
      "id": "event:transposition",
      "label": "Transposition deadline",
      "note": "Directives only. The date by which Member States must have transposed."
    },
    {
      "id": "event:compliance-deadline",
      "label": "Compliance deadline"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:reporting-deadline",
      "label": "Reporting deadline"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:delegated-act",
      "label": "Delegated act"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:implementing-act",
      "label": "Implementing act"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:guidance",
      "label": "Guidance or code of practice"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:designation",
      "label": "Designation decision"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:enforcement",
      "label": "Enforcement action"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:judicial",
      "label": "Judicial event"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:review",
      "label": "Statutory review"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:proposal",
      "label": "Legislative proposal"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:market-investigation",
      "label": "Market investigation"
    },
    {
      "id": "event:adoption",
      "label": "Adoption",
      "note": "The co-legislators sign the act — the date in its title (\"of 13 June 2024\"). Nothing applies yet."
    },
    {
      "id": "event:publication",
      "label": "Publication in the Official Journal",
      "note": "The act is published in the Official Journal. Entry into force is counted from this date, not from adoption."
    }
  ],
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      "id": "precision:day",
      "label": "Exact date"
    },
    {
      "id": "precision:month",
      "label": "Month only",
      "note": "Stored as the first of the month. The day is not published."
    },
    {
      "id": "precision:quarter",
      "label": "Quarter only"
    },
    {
      "id": "precision:year",
      "label": "Year only"
    }
  ],
  "claim_type": [
    {
      "id": "claim-type:law",
      "label": "Law",
      "note": "The legal instrument provides X."
    },
    {
      "id": "claim-type:fact",
      "label": "Fact",
      "note": "The evidence shows Y."
    },
    {
      "id": "claim-type:interpretation",
      "label": "Interpretation",
      "note": "A reading of what the law or the evidence means."
    },
    {
      "id": "claim-type:critique",
      "label": "Critique",
      "note": "The author argues Z."
    },
    {
      "id": "claim-type:forecast",
      "label": "Forecast",
      "note": "A statement about what will or may happen."
    },
    {
      "id": "claim-type:derived",
      "label": "Derived fact",
      "note": "A figure this site computes from other registered claims. The claim records its inputs, formula, result and rounding, so the arithmetic can be re-run; a source that states the number itself would make it a fact, not a derivation."
    },
    {
      "id": "claim-type:attributed",
      "label": "Attributed view",
      "note": "What a named actor states or argues. The site reports the position and does not adopt it; the evidence is the actor's own publication, which settles that the view was held, not that it is right."
    }
  ],
  "source_tier": [
    {
      "id": "tier:1",
      "label": "Primary law and courts",
      "note": "EUR-Lex, regulations, directives, CJEU, General Court, official Commission decisions and legislative documents."
    },
    {
      "id": "tier:2",
      "label": "Regulators and EU institutions",
      "note": "EDPB, EDPS, ENISA, national regulators and competent authorities, European Parliament, Council."
    },
    {
      "id": "tier:3",
      "label": "Research",
      "note": "Peer-reviewed research and established academic institutions."
    },
    {
      "id": "tier:4",
      "label": "Industry, advocacy and press",
      "note": "Industry bodies, advocacy organisations, commentary and journalism. Never to be presented as equivalent to primary law."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "source-type:regulation",
      "label": "Regulation or directive"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:judgment",
      "label": "Judgment"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:court-press-release",
      "label": "Court press release"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:court-record",
      "label": "Court register entry or Official Journal notice of a case"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:decision",
      "label": "Administrative decision"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:press-release",
      "label": "Institutional press release"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:opinion",
      "label": "Regulatory opinion"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:guidance",
      "label": "Guidance"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:legislative-document",
      "label": "Legislative document"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:report",
      "label": "Official report"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:regulator-statement",
      "label": "Regulator statement"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:research",
      "label": "Research publication"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:commentary",
      "label": "Commentary"
    },
    {
      "id": "source-type:journalism",
      "label": "Journalism"
    }
  ],
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      "id": "url:live",
      "label": "Live",
      "note": "Fetched or seen in search results at the accessed date."
    },
    {
      "id": "url:unchecked",
      "label": "Unchecked",
      "note": "Recorded but not yet confirmed to resolve."
    },
    {
      "id": "url:paywalled",
      "label": "Paywalled"
    },
    {
      "id": "url:moved",
      "label": "Moved"
    },
    {
      "id": "url:dead",
      "label": "Dead"
    },
    {
      "id": "url:none",
      "label": "No URL recorded",
      "note": "The source is identified but no citable URL has been located."
    }
  ],
  "supports": [
    {
      "id": "supports:direct",
      "label": "Directly supports",
      "note": "The source states the proposition."
    },
    {
      "id": "supports:partial",
      "label": "Partially supports",
      "note": "The source establishes part of the proposition, a narrower case, or the components from which it is computed."
    },
    {
      "id": "supports:context",
      "label": "Context only",
      "note": "Informs the claim without establishing it. Not a citation."
    }
  ],
  "action_status": [
    {
      "id": "action:announced",
      "label": "Announced",
      "note": "Preliminary findings or an opened proceeding. No decision yet."
    },
    {
      "id": "action:imposed",
      "label": "Imposed",
      "note": "A decision has been adopted."
    },
    {
      "id": "action:final",
      "label": "Final",
      "note": "No longer subject to appeal."
    },
    {
      "id": "action:appealed",
      "label": "Under appeal"
    },
    {
      "id": "action:reduced",
      "label": "Reduced on appeal"
    },
    {
      "id": "action:annulled",
      "label": "Annulled"
    },
    {
      "id": "action:withdrawn",
      "label": "Withdrawn"
    },
    {
      "id": "action:commitments",
      "label": "Closed by binding commitments",
      "note": "No fine. Compliance secured by commitment."
    }
  ],
  "payment_status": [
    {
      "id": "payment:unknown",
      "label": "Unknown",
      "note": "Researched. Not publicly determinable."
    },
    {
      "id": "payment:not-payable",
      "label": "Not yet payable",
      "note": "Typically because the decision is annulled or under appeal."
    },
    {
      "id": "payment:unpaid",
      "label": "Unpaid"
    },
    {
      "id": "payment:paid",
      "label": "Paid"
    },
    {
      "id": "payment:collected",
      "label": "Collected"
    },
    {
      "id": "payment:not-applicable",
      "label": "Not applicable",
      "note": "No monetary penalty was imposed."
    }
  ],
  "remedy_status": [
    {
      "id": "remedy:unknown",
      "label": "Unknown",
      "note": "Researched. Not publicly determinable."
    },
    {
      "id": "remedy:none",
      "label": "No remedy ordered"
    },
    {
      "id": "remedy:ordered",
      "label": "Remedy ordered"
    },
    {
      "id": "remedy:implemented",
      "label": "Remedy implemented"
    }
  ],
  "transposition_state": [
    {
      "id": "transposition:complete",
      "label": "Complete"
    },
    {
      "id": "transposition:partial",
      "label": "Partial"
    },
    {
      "id": "transposition:pending",
      "label": "Pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "transposition:referred",
      "label": "Referred to the Court of Justice"
    },
    {
      "id": "transposition:unknown",
      "label": "Unknown",
      "note": "Not established at the recorded verification date."
    }
  ],
  "relationship_kind": [
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:overlap",
      "label": "Overlaps with",
      "note": "Both instruments reach the same conduct."
    },
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:complement",
      "label": "Complements"
    },
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:sequence",
      "label": "Sequences with",
      "note": "One applies before or feeds into the other."
    },
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:conflict",
      "label": "In tension with"
    },
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:carve-out",
      "label": "Carves out from"
    },
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:amends",
      "label": "Amends"
    },
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:repeals",
      "label": "Repeals"
    },
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:implements",
      "label": "Implements or specifies"
    },
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:lex-specialis",
      "label": "Is lex specialis to"
    },
    {
      "id": "rel-kind:legal-basis",
      "label": "Is the legal basis for"
    }
  ],
  "competence_role": [
    {
      "id": "role:legislates",
      "label": "Legislates"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:supervises",
      "label": "Supervises"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:investigates",
      "label": "Investigates"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:fines",
      "label": "Imposes fines"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:issues-guidance",
      "label": "Issues guidance"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:transposes",
      "label": "Transposes"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:hears-appeals",
      "label": "Hears appeals"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:interprets",
      "label": "Interprets"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:coordinates",
      "label": "Coordinates"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:advises",
      "label": "Advises"
    },
    {
      "id": "role:designates",
      "label": "Designates"
    }
  ],
  "institution_type": [
    {
      "id": "inst-type:eu-institution",
      "label": "EU institution"
    },
    {
      "id": "inst-type:eu-body",
      "label": "EU body or office"
    },
    {
      "id": "inst-type:eu-agency",
      "label": "EU agency"
    },
    {
      "id": "inst-type:court",
      "label": "Court"
    },
    {
      "id": "inst-type:national-authority",
      "label": "National authority"
    },
    {
      "id": "inst-type:network",
      "label": "Network of national authorities"
    },
    {
      "id": "inst-type:directorate-general",
      "label": "Directorate-General"
    }
  ],
  "outcome": [
    {
      "id": "outcome:applies",
      "label": "Yes",
      "note": "On the facts given, this instrument applies."
    },
    {
      "id": "outcome:likely",
      "label": "Potentially applicable",
      "note": "Applies on the most common reading of these facts, but turns on a condition the questionnaire has not established."
    },
    {
      "id": "outcome:possible",
      "label": "Potentially applicable",
      "note": "May apply. Depends on facts this questionnaire does not ask for."
    },
    {
      "id": "outcome:unlikely",
      "label": "Probably not",
      "note": "On the facts given this instrument probably does not apply — but absence of an obligation is not a safe harbour."
    },
    {
      "id": "outcome:undetermined",
      "label": "Not determined",
      "note": "No rule in this dataset covers the combination selected. That is absence of knowledge, NOT evidence of non-applicability."
    }
  ],
  "dna_dimension": [
    {
      "id": "dna:regulated_actor",
      "label": "Regulated actor",
      "note": "Who the instrument places obligations on."
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:protected_party",
      "label": "Protected party",
      "note": "Whose interests it exists to protect."
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:objective",
      "label": "Regulatory objective",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:risk_logic",
      "label": "Risk logic",
      "note": "The organising idea by which obligations scale."
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:obligations",
      "label": "Obligations",
      "note": "The anchor provisions carrying the substantive duties."
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:authority",
      "label": "Competent authority",
      "note": "DERIVED from institutions.json rather than stored on the instrument."
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:enforcement_mechanism",
      "label": "Enforcement mechanism",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:sanction",
      "label": "Sanctions",
      "note": "Ceiling, not tariff."
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:territorial_scope",
      "label": "Territorial reach",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:implementation_model",
      "label": "Implementation model",
      "note": "Directly applicable, or requiring national transposition."
    },
    {
      "id": "dna:key_dates",
      "label": "Key dates",
      "note": "DERIVED from timeline.json via the instrument's milestones."
    }
  ],
  "appeal_status": [
    {
      "id": "appeal:none",
      "label": "No appeal route engaged",
      "note": "Nothing to appeal — typically preliminary findings, or a matter closed by commitments."
    },
    {
      "id": "appeal:not-lodged",
      "label": "No appeal lodged",
      "note": "Established that no appeal was brought within the period."
    },
    {
      "id": "appeal:pending",
      "label": "Under appeal",
      "note": "An appeal has been lodged and not yet decided."
    },
    {
      "id": "appeal:decided",
      "label": "Appeal decided",
      "note": "See the judicial record for the outcome."
    },
    {
      "id": "appeal:unknown",
      "label": "Unknown",
      "note": "Researched. Whether an appeal was lodged is not publicly determinable, or has not been established here."
    }
  ],
  "pipeline_stage": [
    {
      "id": "stage:law",
      "label": "Law on paper",
      "note": "The obligation exists and applies."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage:investigation",
      "label": "Investigation",
      "note": "Proceedings opened against a named entity."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage:action",
      "label": "Enforcement action",
      "note": "The authority has acted — preliminary findings count here, a decision does not yet exist."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage:decision",
      "label": "Decision",
      "note": "A decision has been adopted. Preliminary findings are NOT a decision."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage:final",
      "label": "Final decision",
      "note": "No longer subject to appeal."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage:payment",
      "label": "Payment / collection",
      "note": "Money has actually moved. The brief's central point is that this is a different quantity from the announced figure."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage:remedy",
      "label": "Remedy",
      "note": "Conduct was ordered to change."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage:behaviour",
      "label": "Behavioural change",
      "note": "Conduct is documented to have changed."
    }
  ],
  "stage_state": [
    {
      "id": "state:reached",
      "label": "Reached",
      "note": "The record supports this stage having been reached."
    },
    {
      "id": "state:not-reached",
      "label": "Not reached",
      "note": "The record supports this stage NOT having been reached."
    },
    {
      "id": "state:unknown",
      "label": "Unknown",
      "note": "Researched or derivable in principle, but not determinable from the record. NEVER rendered as zero, and never counted as either reached or not reached."
    },
    {
      "id": "state:na",
      "label": "Not applicable",
      "note": "The stage cannot arise for this kind of action — an appeal stage for preliminary findings, a payment stage where no fine was imposed."
    }
  ],
  "evidence_status": [
    {
      "id": "evidence:direct",
      "label": "Direct",
      "note": "An external source states the proposition. Derived at render time from the claim's source references; never stored."
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence:partial",
      "label": "Partial",
      "note": "External sources establish part of the proposition, a narrower case, or the components from which it is computed — but none states it whole."
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence:derived",
      "label": "Derived",
      "note": "The proposition is computed by this site from other registered claims. Its strength is that of its inputs and its arithmetic, both of which are recorded."
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence:context-only",
      "label": "Context only",
      "note": "External sources inform the claim without establishing any part of it. Context is not a citation."
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence:unverified",
      "label": "Unverified",
      "note": "No external source states or part-states the proposition; the only support recorded is the brief itself."
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence:disputed",
      "label": "Disputed",
      "note": "Sources recorded on the claim disagree about the proposition itself. The claim carries the disagreement rather than choosing a side silently."
    }
  ],
  "remediation": [
    {
      "id": "remediation:missing-primary-source",
      "label": "Missing primary source",
      "note": "A claim of law or fact whose strongest external support is not tier 1 or 2. Derived."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:missing-locator",
      "label": "Missing locator",
      "note": "A direct source reference without a locator specific enough for another person to reach the evidence without reading the whole document. Derived."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:self-source-only",
      "label": "Rests on the brief alone",
      "note": "A claim that owes verification and whose only direct support is the brief itself. Derived."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:secondary-source-only",
      "label": "Secondary sources only",
      "note": "Every external source is tier 3 or 4. Derived."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:secondary-reproduction-only",
      "label": "Unofficial reproduction only",
      "note": "A claim of law whose only external support for the legal text is an unofficial reproduction of it rather than the Official Journal or EUR-Lex. Derived from the source's reproduces field."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:derivation-undocumented",
      "label": "Derivation undocumented",
      "note": "A derived claim whose inputs, formula or result are missing or do not recompute. Derived."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:possibly-composite",
      "label": "Possibly composite",
      "note": "Heuristic: the statement carries several propositions or several figures, each of which may need its own source. Derived; never blocking."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:outdated",
      "label": "Review due",
      "note": "The record is past the review interval of its freshness risk class. Derived."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:reference-gap",
      "label": "Named reference gap",
      "note": "A person has recorded that part of the claim's sourcing is missing (reference_gap). Cleared only by a person."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:claim-too-broad",
      "label": "Claim too broad",
      "note": "Judged: the statement asserts more than any recorded source could carry. Stored in the claim's remediation field."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:interpretation-as-fact",
      "label": "Interpretation presented as fact",
      "note": "Judged: the prose states as fact something the data records as the author's reading. Stored."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:contested",
      "label": "Contested",
      "note": "Judged: the proposition is disputed between sources or actors. Stored; the claim also carries a contested block."
    },
    {
      "id": "remediation:low-value",
      "label": "Low value",
      "note": "Judged: verification effort would exceed what the claim carries in the argument. Stored, never used to hide a gap."
    }
  ],
  "prose_class": [
    {
      "id": "prose:synthesis",
      "label": "Author synthesis",
      "note": "An inference the author draws across registered facts. Not a sourced finding, and not something a citation could settle."
    },
    {
      "id": "prose:critique",
      "label": "Author critique",
      "note": "An analytical or normative assessment by the author."
    },
    {
      "id": "prose:recommendation",
      "label": "Recommendation",
      "note": "What the author proposes should be done. Normative by construction."
    },
    {
      "id": "prose:signpost",
      "label": "Signpost",
      "note": "Framing or navigation that asserts nothing about the law or the world."
    },
    {
      "id": "prose:method",
      "label": "Method note",
      "note": "How the site or this brief was made, or how to read it. A statement by the author about their own work."
    }
  ],
  "freshness_risk": [
    {
      "id": "risk:critical",
      "label": "Critical",
      "note": "Legal status in motion: a pending appeal, a preliminary finding, an unknown payment, or a scheduled event within 60 days. Its review interval is set in js/evidence-model.js RISK_TTL_DAYS and nowhere else."
    },
    {
      "id": "risk:high",
      "label": "High",
      "note": "Institutional status or current implementation: legislative status, transposition, competences, open enforcement. Its review interval is set in js/evidence-model.js RISK_TTL_DAYS and nowhere else."
    },
    {
      "id": "risk:medium",
      "label": "Medium",
      "note": "General claims of fact and law that can move but rarely do. Its review interval is set in js/evidence-model.js RISK_TTL_DAYS and nowhere else."
    },
    {
      "id": "risk:low",
      "label": "Low",
      "note": "Historical context and the author's own arguments. Its review interval is set in js/evidence-model.js RISK_TTL_DAYS and nowhere else."
    }
  ],
  "freshness_state": [
    {
      "id": "freshness:fresh",
      "label": "Fresh",
      "note": "Verified within half of its risk class's review interval."
    },
    {
      "id": "freshness:aging",
      "label": "Aging",
      "note": "Within its review interval, past half of it."
    },
    {
      "id": "freshness:review-due",
      "label": "Review due",
      "note": "Past its review interval, within twice it."
    },
    {
      "id": "freshness:stale",
      "label": "Stale",
      "note": "Past twice its review interval, or never verified."
    }
  ],
  "finality": [
    {
      "id": "finality:final",
      "label": "Final",
      "note": "The act can no longer be challenged, or a challenge has been finally decided. Derived at render time from the enforcement record."
    },
    {
      "id": "finality:not-final",
      "label": "Not final",
      "note": "A preliminary step, or a decision under appeal or remitted for re-decision. Derived."
    },
    {
      "id": "finality:unknown",
      "label": "Finality unknown",
      "note": "The record cannot settle whether the act is final. Never counted as final or as not final."
    }
  ],
  "procedural_stage": [
    {
      "id": "procedure:investigation",
      "label": "Investigation",
      "note": "Proceedings opened; no finding yet."
    },
    {
      "id": "procedure:preliminary-finding",
      "label": "Preliminary finding",
      "note": "The authority has stated a provisional view. Not a decision."
    },
    {
      "id": "procedure:decision",
      "label": "Decision",
      "note": "The authority has adopted a decision."
    },
    {
      "id": "procedure:commitments",
      "label": "Commitments",
      "note": "The case was closed by binding commitments rather than a finding of infringement."
    },
    {
      "id": "procedure:appeal",
      "label": "Under appeal",
      "note": "The decision is before a court."
    },
    {
      "id": "procedure:judgment",
      "label": "Judgment",
      "note": "A court has ruled."
    },
    {
      "id": "procedure:annulled",
      "label": "Annulled",
      "note": "A court has annulled the act."
    },
    {
      "id": "procedure:remitted",
      "label": "Remitted",
      "note": "Annulled and sent back to the authority for re-decision."
    },
    {
      "id": "procedure:no-proceedings",
      "label": "No proceedings",
      "note": "The record documents that no proceedings were opened."
    }
  ],
  "record_type": [
    {
      "id": "record-type:action",
      "label": "Enforcement action",
      "note": "An action an authority actually took: a proceeding, preliminary findings, a decision, a fine, commitments or a court ruling. The default where a record states no record_type."
    },
    {
      "id": "record-type:inaction",
      "label": "Recorded inaction",
      "note": "A record that no action has been found, true only at the date it was last checked. It has no decision, no fine and no pipeline, and it is excluded from every count, total and funnel of enforcement."
    }
  ]
}