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Software law in the European Union, on a map

How software law came to bind across the European Union, from into the coming years. When a law of the Union starts, every member state flashes and the law joins the table under the EU flag; each member state's own law colours the country and joins the table under it. Press Play, or move the slider to a date. The rest of the world is on the world map.

The date the map shows

From to in 15 months By this date: 30 laws of the Union in force and 22 not yet in force; 375 national laws in force in 27 of 27 member states, and 4 not yet in force.

  • Not yet in force: enacted, and it starts to bind after the date shown or after today
  • In force: started to bind since
  • no law of its own on the map by this date
  • Flash: a law of the Union starts to bind in every member state

Every law on the map

431 laws in 28 places, the Union first, each with the dates the map places it on: the day it started to bind, from on, as its own page gives it; the changes the Software Law Tracker lists since ; and the start dates the LexLint law library holds up to .

1 law starts to bind after , past the slider's last stop, so the map does not place it:

5 more laws are enacted with no start date on record, so the map cannot place them on the slider. Each is marked not yet in force on its own LexLint page.

58 laws in force started to bind before , the slider's first day, so the map does not draw them.

35 laws are in force with no start date on record, so the map cannot place them on the slider.

7 laws now blocked by a court or no longer in force have no dated change on record, so the map cannot say when they stopped binding and does not draw them.

This map reports changes in the law, drawn from the official record that each law's LexLint page, and each change on the tracker, cites. It is not legal advice.