Role is a controlled vocabulary that lists the roles of persons or entities relevant for the descriptive metadata used at the Publications Office and the core metadata used in the data exchange between the institutions involved in the legal decision-making process. Range of users also includes EU Publications and EUR-Lex. Role provides an authority code and start-use date of each concept and labels in all official EU languages. Role is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata and Formats Committee (IMFC). It is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union and disseminated on the EU Vocabularies website.
