This will guarantee easier identification, access, exchange and reuse of legislation for public authorities, professional users, academics and citizens.
ELI stems from the acknowledgement that the World Wide Web defines a new paradigm for legal information access, sharing and enrichment.
The Task Force "European Legislation Identifier", short "ELI TF", is the body created by the eLaw/eLaw Working Party of the Council of the European Union to define ELI-related specifications and to ensure their future evolution[2] The Task Force comprises representatives of Albania, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg (chair), Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the EU Publications Office.
Template: Example: In addition to HTTP URIs uniquely identifying legislation ELI encourages the use of relevant metadata elements to further describe it.
ELI invites participating Member States to embed these metadata elements into the webpages of their legal information systems using RDFa[8] or JSON-LD.
Documentation of ELI-DL is available at https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eli-european-legislation-identifier/solution/eli-ontology-draft-legislation-eli-dl/about Two guides are available to help guide teams implementing the ELI standard: As of 1st January 2023, ELI standard has been implemented by the following official gazettes : Albania, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, EU-Publications Office, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom.