type_interinstitutionalprocedure
act | [simple type] |
Legal act
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The element is used to create a reference to a legal act which is not a treaty (secondary legislation). The expected value is the CELEX identifier.
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agent_event | [element] |
Agent (European institution or body) responsible for an event
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European institution or body responsible for an event. Its values are derived from the authority tables at‐corporate-body.xsd or at‐country.xsd.
The mandatory attribute role indicates the role of the agent. Its values are derived from the authority table at‐role.xsd.
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agent_organization_event | [element] |
Agent (organization) responsible for an event
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Organization responsible for an event. Organization includes corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, universities, and various types of political organizations. The European institutions or bodies are not covered in this element.
The mandatory attribute role indicates the role of the agent. Its values are derived from the authority table at‐role.xsd.
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agent_organization_work | [element] |
Agent (organization) responsible for a work
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Organization responsible for a work. Organization includes corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, universities, and various types of political organizations. The European institutions or bodies are not covered in this element.
The mandatory attribute role indicates the role of the agent. Its values are derived from the authority table at‐role.xsd.
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agent_person_event | [element] |
Agent (person) responsible for an event
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The element contains the name of the responsible person of a given event.
The mandatory attribute role indicates the role of the agent. Its values are derived from the authority table at‐role.xsd.
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agent_person_work | [element] |
Agent (person) responsible for a work
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The element contains the identification of the responsible person of a given work.
The mandatory attribute role indicates the role of the agent. Its values are derived from the authority table at‐role.xsd.
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agent_work | [element] |
Agent (European institution or body) responsible for a work
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European institution or body responsible for a work. Its values are derived from the authority tables at‐corporate-body.xsd or at‐country.xsd.
The mandatory attribute role indicates the role of the agent. Its values are derived from the authority table at‐role.xsd.
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basis_legal_procedure | [element] |
Legal basis of a procedure
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The element defines the legal basis of a procedure. It contains a reference to an act or a treaty and its specific hierarchical subdivisions i.e. article 1, paragraph 2, point 1 of an act or a treaty.
It is only to be used when the type of the procedure is set to "interinstitutional".
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date_event | [element] |
Date of an event
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The element specifies the date of a given event. Its value has to be conformant to the format: yyyy‐mm‐dd.
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date_work | [element] |
Date of a work
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The element specifies the date of the work. In general, the date of adoption shall be the date of work. Nevertheless, the authoring institution defines this date per resource type together with the Publications Office. Its value has to be conformant to the format: yyyy‐mm‐dd.
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document_legal | [element] |
Reference to legal resources
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Reference to a legal act which is not a treaty (secondary legislation) or reference to a treaty (its values are derived from the authority table at‐treaty.xsd).
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event | [element] |
Legal or judicial event
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The element describes a legal or judicial event, indicating a stage of the procedure.
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expression | [element] |
Expression entity within the FRBR model
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Expression is "the intellectual or artistic realization of a work" (FRBR 3.2.2) i.e. the different linguistic versions in which a legal resource is available.
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identifier_manifestation | [element] |
Identification of a manifestation
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The manifestation identifier is a number or code uniquely associated with the manifestation that serves to differentiate that manifestation from any other manifestation (source: FRBR).
The optional attribute type defines the different types of identifiers that can be used for a manifestation i.e. isbn, issn, doi, etc. Absence of a type indicates an identifier assigned by publishers, distributors, government publication agencies, archives, etc., following their internally devised schemes (after RDA 2.15.1.1).
The optional attribute status contains the values 'valid' (default) or 'invalid' and is used to denote the validity of an identifier_manifestation i.e. an ISBN is considered to be cancelled when a publisher designates it as such or it can be structurally invalid (its length or structure is incorrect or its check digit does not agree with the formula for calculating it).
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identifier_procedure | [element] |
Identification of a procedure
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The element contains the identification of a procedure. The identifier of an interinstitutional procedure is composed of the year when the procedure was opened (→ year_procedure) and a running number (→ number_procedure). The type of an interinstitutional procedure which constitutes part of the identifier is delivered in the IMMC through the element type_interinstitutionalprocedure.
If the abovementionted structure cannot be provided, then the procedure identifier can be transmitted as a string of characters through the element procId.
The identifier of a case procedure is delivered through the procId element i.e. C-169/14.
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identifier_work | [element] |
Identification of a work
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The element contains the identification of a given work as a string of characters. It is up to the sender to provide a unique identifier for every work transmitted.
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language | [element] |
Language of a resource
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The element identifies the language of a resource at the expression level.
Its values are derived from the authority table at‐language.xsd.
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manifestation | [element] |
Manifestation entity within the FRBR model
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Manifestation is "the physical embodiment of an expression of a work" (FRBR 3.2.3) i.e. the PDF format of a legal resource. For every different format in which a work is embodied a new manifestation element has to be used. For example, if the PDF and HTML formats of a work contain exactly the same content then two manifestation elements are required in the IMMC file.
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number_procedure | [element] |
Number of a procedure
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The element contains the number of a procedure as part of its identification. As it may contain not only digits, but also letters, it is defined as a string (xs:string) only.
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procId | [element] |
Identifier of a procedure
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The element contains the identifier of a procedure in cases where the structured variant cannot be used. The content is a string (xs:string) only.
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procedure | [element] |
Root element for the description of either an interinstitutional procedure or a case
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The element provides a container for the description of an interinstitutional procedure or a case. All sub-elements are mandatory.
The mandatory attribute type indicates the type of the procedure and currently contains two values 'interinstitutional' or 'case'.
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reference_manifestation | [element] |
Reference to a manifestation
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The element contains a reference to a manifestation (generally a file name) in the form of a URI (xs:anyURI).
The mandatory attribute format indicates the format of a resource. Its values are derived from the authority tables at‐file-type.xsd and at‐product-form.xsd.
The optional attribute sequence indicates, in the case of composed manifestations, the position of each object. In cases of splitted manifestations the attribute identifies the sequence in which the fragments have to be composed. Its default value is "1".
The optional attribute page_count indicates the total number of pages of each reference that composes the manifestation.
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subdivision | [element] |
Subdivisions in an legal resource
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The element is used, in a recursive model, in order to describe the different subdivisions of a legal resource i.e. article 1, paragraph 2, point 1 of an act or a treaty.
The mandatory attribute type contains a list of the possible subdivisions. Its values are derived from the authority table at‐subdivision.xsd.
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title | [element] |
Title of a resource
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The element contains the title of a resource at the expression level.
The optional attribute lang has only to be used if the language of the title is different from the language of the expression. It can contain a single language value or a value for combination of languages for multilingual resources. Its values are derived from the authority tables at‐language.xsd and at‐multilingual.xsd.
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treaty | [element] |
Reference to a treaty
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The element contains a reference to a treaty. Its values are derived from the authority table at‐treaty.xsd.
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type_event | [element] |
Type of an event
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The element specifies the type of a given event within a procedure i.e. "Adoption by Commission", "EP opinion on 1st reading". Its values are derived from the authority table at‐event.xsd.
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type_interinstitutionalprocedure | [element] |
Type of an interinstitutional procedure
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The element specifies the type of an interinstitutional procedure i.e. "Ordinary legislative procedure". It is only to be used when the type of the procedure is set to "interinstitutional".
The values are derived from the authority table at‐procedure.xsd.
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type_work | [element] |
Type of a resource at the work level
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The element specifies the type of the resource at the work level. Its values are derived from the authority table at‐resource-type.xsd.
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value | [element] |
Value of a subdivision
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The element contains the numerical value of each subdivision element of a legal resource i.e. article 1, paragraph 2, point 1 of an act or a treaty.
It shall never be left empty.
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version_work | [element] |
Version of a legal resource
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The element specifies the version of a legal resource. It can contain only a string of characters. Possible values are i.e. final, provisional, definitive.
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work | [element] |
Work entity within the FRBR model
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Work is a "distinct intellectual or artistic creation" (FRBR 3.2.1). It is up to the sender and recipient to agree what entities they want to consider works for the purpose of their transmissions.
As not all documents are linked to an interinstitutional or judicial procedure, a work can be transmitted as a root element. When a document is related to a procedure, the work element is used within the event level.
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work_ref | [element] |
Reference to the identifier of a work
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The element can be used at the event level, alternatively to work, in order to indicate that a work (not part of this transmission) should neverthless be considered part of that event. Normally, the corresponding work has been sent in a previous transmission.
The optional attribute ref contains a reference to the unique identifier of a FRBR entity. In preference this unique identifier shall be: for works the identifier_work and for manifestations the identifier_manifestation without a type.
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year_procedure | [element] |
Year of a procedure
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The element specifies the year of the procedure. It always consists of four digits.
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public | [attribute] |
Disclosure of element content
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This global attribute indicates whether the content of a given element is public or not. Its values are limited to 'true' and 'false', 'true' being the default value.
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version_schema | [attribute] |
Version of a schema
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The attribute is used for specifying the version of the schema against which an XML instance is valid.
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