The Role authority table is a controlled vocabulary listing 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. It is also used by EUR-Lex. The table provides an authority code and the start-use date of each concept and labels in all official EU languages. The Role authority table is under governance of the Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) and maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.