EU law: the acts behind the national rules

Every act is read from EUR-Lex and carries its CELEX number, its dates and the national instruments that implement it. One act, one address, one identifier.

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• GDPR: Regulation (EU) 2016/679

  CELEX 32016R0679 · Applies from 2018-05-25 · 99 articles

  The act our reading of public sources is measured against: lawful basis, purpose limitation and the rights of the person a page mentions.

• AI Act: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689

  CELEX 32024R1689 · Applies from 2026-08-02 · 113 articles

  The act behind our transparency pages: what a reader must be told about a rule that produces a number, and how that rule is documented.

• NIS2: Directive (EU) 2022/2555

  CELEX 32022L2555 · Applies from 2024-10-17 · 45 articles

  The act behind our operations pages: how a service is kept running, how a fault is logged and who has to be told.

• Digital Services Act: Regulation (EU) 2022/2065

  CELEX 32022R2065 · Applies from 2024-02-17 · 93 articles

  The act behind our notice and reporting routines for anything published through the platform.

• Digital Markets Act: Regulation (EU) 2022/1925

  CELEX 32022R1925 · Applies from 2023-05-02 · 54 articles

  The act that shapes how large platforms may treat data and access, and therefore what an open source can be read for.

• ePrivacy Directive: Directive 2002/58/EC

  CELEX 32002L0058 · Applies from 2003-10-31 · 21 articles

  The act behind our rules for storage in a reader's browser and for anything read from a device rather than from a page.

• PSD2: Directive (EU) 2015/2366

  CELEX 32015L2366 · Applies from 2018-01-13 · 117 articles

  The act behind how a payment on the platform is authenticated and who may see the fields around it.

• Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, data protection for EU institutions

  CELEX 32018R1725 · Applies from 2018-12-11 · 99 articles

  The act that governs the EU bodies we read from, so a reader can see which rules the source itself works under.

• DORA: Regulation (EU) 2022/2554

  CELEX 32022R2554 · Applies from 2025-01-17 · 64 articles

  Digital operational resilience for financial entities: ICT risk management, incident reporting and oversight of critical third-party providers.

• MiCA: Regulation (EU) 2023/1114

  CELEX 32023R1114 · Applies from 2024-12-30 · 149 articles

  Markets in crypto-assets: authorisation of issuers and service providers, and the duties that follow.

• CSRD: Directive (EU) 2022/2464

  CELEX 32022L2464 · Applies from 2024-07-06 · 7 articles

  Corporate sustainability reporting: which undertakings report, in which year, and under which standard.

• CSDDD: Directive (EU) 2024/1760

  CELEX 32024L1760 · Applies from 2027-07-26 · 39 articles

  Sustainability due diligence in the value chain: the duties a large undertaking carries for its own operations and its partners.

• Taxonomy: Regulation (EU) 2020/852

  CELEX 32020R0852 · Applies from 2022-01-01 · 27 articles

  The classification of environmentally sustainable activities that sustainability reporting is measured against.

• Data Act: Regulation (EU) 2023/2854

  CELEX 32023R2854 · Applies from 2025-09-12 · 50 articles

  Who may access data from a connected product, on what terms, and how a customer switches cloud provider.

• Cyber Resilience Act: Regulation (EU) 2024/2847

  CELEX 32024R2847 · Applies from 2027-12-11 · 71 articles

  Cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, from design to vulnerability handling.

• eIDAS 2.0: Regulation (EU) 910/2014, as amended by (EU) 2024/1183

  CELEX 32014R0910 · Applies from 2024-05-20 · 82 articles

  eIDAS 2.0: the European digital identity wallet, electronic signatures, seals and the trust services a cross border transaction rests on.

• EU Merger Regulation: Regulation (EC) No 139/2004

  CELEX 32004R0139 · Applies from 2004-05-01 · 26 articles

  Merger notification to the Commission: turnover thresholds, the one stop shop and the phase I and phase II timetable.

• Foreign Subsidies Regulation: Regulation (EU) 2022/2560

  CELEX 32022R2560 · Applies from 2023-07-12 · 55 articles

  Notification of foreign financial contributions in transactions and public procurement above the thresholds.

• Whistleblower Directive: Directive (EU) 2019/1937

  CELEX 32019L1937 · Applies from 2021-12-17 · 29 articles

  Internal reporting channels, follow up duties and the protection against retaliation.

• Pay Transparency Directive: Directive (EU) 2023/970

  CELEX 32023L0970 · Applies from 2026-06-07 · 36 articles

  Pay information before hiring, the right to information for employees, and gender pay gap reporting.

• Platform Work Directive: Directive (EU) 2024/2831

  CELEX 32024L2831 · Applies from 2026-12-02 · 30 articles

  The presumption of employment, limits on automated decisions and the information a platform must give.

• Product Liability Directive: Directive (EU) 2024/2853

  CELEX 32024L2853 · Applies from 2026-12-09 · 25 articles

  Software and AI systems as products, the disclosure of evidence and the presumptions of defectiveness.

• General Product Safety Regulation: Regulation (EU) 2023/988

  CELEX 32023R0988 · Applies from 2024-12-13 · 52 articles

  The safety duty for online sales, recall procedures and the responsible person in the Union.

• Deforestation Regulation: Regulation (EU) 2023/1115

  CELEX 32023R1115 · Applies from 2025-12-30 · 38 articles

  Due diligence statements, geolocation of plots and the country benchmarking that sets the level of checks.

• CBAM: Regulation (EU) 2023/956

  CELEX 32023R0956 · Applies from 2026-01-01 · 36 articles

  Reporting of embedded emissions in imports, the authorised declarant and the sale of certificates from 2026.

• Anti-Money Laundering Regulation: Regulation (EU) 2024/1624

  CELEX 32024R1624 · Applies from 2027-07-10 · 86 articles

  Obliged entities, customer due diligence, beneficial ownership and the cash payment limit.

• European Accessibility Act: Directive (EU) 2019/882

  CELEX 32019L0882 · Applies from 2022-06-28 · 34 articles

  Accessibility requirements for e-commerce, banking services and digital products, applied since 28 June 2025.

• Data Governance Act: Regulation (EU) 2022/868

  CELEX 32022R0868 · Applies from 2023-09-24 · 38 articles

  Reuse of protected public-sector data, registration of data intermediaries and recognised data altruism organisations.

• European Health Data Space: Regulation (EU) 2025/327

  CELEX 32025R0327 · Applies from 2027-03-26 · 105 articles

  Patient access to electronic health data and the secondary use of health data for research, innovation and policymaking, applied in stages from 2027.

• 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive: Directive (EU) 2024/1640

  CELEX 32024L1640 · Applies from 2027-07-10 · 80 articles

  The national layer of the AML package: beneficial-ownership registers, financial intelligence units and supervisory powers.

• DAC8: Directive (EU) 2023/2226 amending Directive 2011/16/EU

  CELEX 32023L2226 · Applies from 2025-12-31 · 4 articles

  The eighth amendment of the mutual assistance directive: crypto-asset reporting, automatic exchange and advance rulings for high-net-worth individuals.

• VAT in the Digital Age: Directive (EU) 2025/516 amending Directive 2006/112/EC

  CELEX 32025L0516 · Applies from 2028-01-01 · 8 articles

  VAT in the digital age: digital reporting requirements, e-invoicing and the platform economy, in stages towards 2035.

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