changedInput schema / properties / outline / description
Previous value: -"Return a structural outline of the act — chapters, sections, articles, annexes, and the preamble's recitals as a heading list, each with its character offset — instead of body text. The recitals appear as one entry spanning the run (e.g. \"Recitals 1–173\") at the first recital's offset unless include_recitals is true. Headings of text an amending act inserts into another act are not listed. Read a section by paging with its offset, keeping the same format: outline offsets are measured in the requested format's body and land in the wrong place under any other format. Ignores offset/limit and select; no detectable structure returns an empty outline. Not applied in content_mode \"metadata_only\"."New value: +"Return a structural outline of the act — chapters, sections, articles, annexes, and the preamble's recitals as a heading list, each with its character offset — instead of body text. The recitals appear as one entry spanning the run (e.g. \"Recitals 1–173\") at the first recital's offset unless include_recitals is true. Headings of text an amending act inserts into another act are not listed. For case law, the outline lists each top-level section heading (\"Legal context\", \"Costs\") and, for a judgment or order, the operative part (the ruling). Read a section by paging with its offset, keeping the same format: outline offsets are measured in the requested format's body and land in the wrong place under any other format. Ignores offset/limit and select; no detectable structure returns an empty outline. Not applied in content_mode \"metadata_only\"."
changedInput schema / properties / select / description
Previous value: -"Return only the text of specific sections by type and number, instead of a raw character window (Roman and Arabic numbers are equivalent; a number may carry an English kind word or one in the language served, e.g. \"Article 5\", \"Artikel 5\", \"5. cikk\"). Sections are located in the body of the requested format, so pair select with the same format used for any outline. A section inside another selected section (an article in a selected chapter) is returned once, within the enclosing one. A section that cannot be located — including a number that appears only in text an amending act inserts into another act — is reported in selection.missed with no wrong text returned. offset and limit do not apply: the joined sections are capped at 100000 characters with no continuation, and each section stays readable on its own from its offset and chars in selected_sections. Ignored when outline is true or in content_mode \"metadata_only\"."New value: +"Return only the text of specific sections by type and number, instead of a raw character window (Roman and Arabic numbers are equivalent; a number may carry an English kind word or one in the language served, e.g. \"Article 5\", \"Artikel 5\", \"5. cikk\"). For case law, select headed sections by position or the operative part. Sections are located in the body of the requested format, so pair select with the same format used for any outline. A section inside another selected section (an article in a selected chapter) is returned once, within the enclosing one. A section that cannot be located — including a number that appears only in text an amending act inserts into another act — is reported in selection.missed with no wrong text returned. offset and limit do not apply: the joined sections are capped at 100000 characters with no continuation, and each section stays readable on its own from its offset and chars in selected_sections. Ignored when outline is true or in content_mode \"metadata_only\"."
addedInput schema / properties / select / properties / headings
Added value: +{
+ "description": "Case law: comma-separated positions of section headings, as numbered in the outline, e.g. \"2\" or \"1,4\". A section runs to the next heading or the operative part.",
+ "type": "string"
+}
addedInput schema / properties / select / properties / operative_part
Added value: +{
+ "description": "Case law: true to return a judgment's or order's operative part (the ruling) to the end of the body: from its opening words (\"On those grounds, …\") in a modern body, from the \"Operative part\" section in a legacy one.",
+ "type": "boolean"
+}
changedOutput schema / properties / author_institution / description
Previous value: -"Human-readable name of the primary (first) originating institution — an EU institution (e.g. \"European Parliament\", \"Court of Justice\"), or for a national-court decision the deciding court (e.g. \"Supremo Tribunal de Justiça\"). For co-legislated acts, prefer author_institutions for the complete set. For a consolidated text, the base act's (see base_act_celex). Absent when not recorded, and for an AG opinion whose only recorded author is the Advocate General."New value: +"Primary (first) author, by the English label of its CELLAR authority code: an EU institution or body (e.g. \"European Parliament\", \"Court of Justice\", \"European Union\"), a member state on a national implementing measure (e.g. \"Netherlands\"), an MEP by surname on a parliamentary question (e.g. \"VAN MIERT\"), \"Provisional data\" for a consolidated text with no linked base act, or for a national-court decision the deciding court (e.g. \"Supremo Tribunal de Justiça\"). A code with no English label shows the last segment of its code. Each label is accepted by the author_institution filter of eurlex_search_documents. For co-legislated acts, prefer author_institutions for the complete set. For a consolidated text, the base act's (see base_act_celex). Absent when not recorded, and for an AG opinion whose only recorded author is the Advocate General."
changedOutput schema / properties / author_institutions / description
Previous value: -"All originating institutions, for acts adopted by more than one body (e.g. [\"European Parliament\", \"Council of the EU\"]). Institutions only: an Advocate General appears in advocates_general. For a consolidated text, the base act's. Absent when none recorded."New value: +"All authors, labelled as in author_institution and listed once each, for acts adopted by more than one body (e.g. [\"European Parliament\", \"Council of the European Union\"]) or signed by several states. Advocates General appear in advocates_general instead. For a consolidated text, the base act's. Absent when none recorded."
changedOutput schema / properties / author_institutions / items / description
Previous value: -"Human-readable institution name."New value: +"Author label, as in author_institution."
addedOutput schema / properties / case_reference
Added value: +{
+ "description": "Case law: the case reference from the title (e.g. \"Case C-131/12.\").",
+ "type": "string"
+}
addedOutput schema / properties / ecli
Added value: +{
+ "description": "European Case Law Identifier of a case-law record (e.g. \"ECLI:EU:C:2014:317\"), as eurlex_lookup_celex reports it: the work's own, or the lowest another work holding the same CELEX records. Absent for legislation.",
+ "type": "string"
+}
addedOutput schema / properties / formation
Added value: +{
+ "description": "Case law: the formation that decided, from the title's leading segment, verbatim (e.g. \"Grand Chamber\"), or \"President\", \"Vice-President\", or \"President of the Second Chamber\" for an order issued by that office. Absent when the title names none.",
+ "type": "string"
+}
changedOutput schema / properties / outline / items / properties / kind / description
Previous value: -"Structural unit kind: \"chapter\", \"section\", \"article\", \"annex\", or \"recital\"."New value: +"Structural unit kind: \"chapter\", \"section\", \"article\", \"annex\", or \"recital\" in an act; \"heading\" or \"operative_part\" in case law."
changedOutput schema / properties / outline / items / properties / label / description
Previous value: -"Human label in English whatever the language and format, e.g. \"Article 17\", \"CHAPTER IV\", \"Recitals 1–173\" — the form selection.matched reports; only an xml article with no number to read keeps its own heading text."New value: +"Human label in English whatever the language and format, e.g. \"Article 17\", \"CHAPTER IV\", \"Recitals 1–173\" — the form selection.matched reports; only an xml article with no number to read keeps its own heading text. A case-law heading keeps its text as served (e.g. \"Legal context\", \"Sur les dépens\"); the operative part is \"Operative part\"."
changedOutput schema / properties / outline / items / properties / number / description
Previous value: -"Numbering token, the same in every language (e.g. \"17\", \"6A\", \"IV\" — Roman numerals in Latin letters, French \"premier\" as \"1\"); empty for a lone unnumbered annex. A recital entry covering a run reads as a range, first–last (e.g. \"1–173\"), unless include_recitals is true."New value: +"Numbering token, the same in every language (e.g. \"17\", \"6A\", \"IV\" — Roman numerals in Latin letters, French \"premier\" as \"1\"); empty for a lone unnumbered annex. A recital entry covering a run reads as a range, first–last (e.g. \"1–173\"), unless include_recitals is true. A case-law heading is numbered by its 1-based position, the number select.headings takes; empty for the operative part."
addedOutput schema / properties / referring_court
Added value: +{
+ "description": "Case law: the national court that referred a preliminary ruling, from the title (e.g. \"Audiencia Nacional\"). Absent on direct actions and appeals.",
+ "type": "string"
+}
changedOutput schema / properties / selected_sections / items / properties / label / description
Previous value: -"Section label in English whatever the language and format, e.g. \"Article 17\"."New value: +"Section label as in the outline, e.g. \"Article 17\", or a case-law heading's served text."
changedOutput schema / properties / selection / properties / matched / description
Previous value: -"Labels of the sections located in the body, in document order — in English whatever the language and format, as in the outline."New value: +"Labels of the sections located in the body, in document order, as in the outline — in English whatever the language and format, except a case-law heading, which keeps its text as served."
changedOutput schema / properties / selection / properties / requested / description
Previous value: -"Section descriptors requested, in English whatever the language, e.g. [\"Article 17\", \"CHAPTER IV\"]."New value: +"Section descriptors requested, in English whatever the language, e.g. [\"Article 17\", \"CHAPTER IV\"], or [\"Heading 2\", \"Operative part\"] for case law."
changedOutput schema / properties / structure_detected / description
Previous value: -"Whether any act structure was parsed from the body. Present when outline or select was used; false means no detectable chapter/article/annex structure — read it via offset/limit or content_mode \"full\"."New value: +"Whether any structure was parsed from the body. Present when outline or select was used; false means no detectable chapter/article/annex structure, or for case law no section heading or operative part — read it via offset/limit or content_mode \"full\"."
addedOutput schema / properties / subject_matter
Added value: +{
+ "description": "Case law: the subject-matter keyword list from the title (e.g. \"Personal data – Protection of individuals …\").",
+ "type": "string"
+}
changedOutput schema / properties / title / description
Previous value: -"Document title in the requested language (absent for some older works and judgments)."New value: +"Document title in the language the body is served in (see language), or in English when CELLAR records no title in that language. Case law is titled in English whatever the language, parsed from its English CELLAR title: the parties (e.g. \"Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja González.\"), or the court/AG descriptor when the case names none, with the rest in formation, referring_court, subject_matter, and case_reference, when the parser places the title whole; otherwise the raw \"#\"-delimited English title, or the served language's raw title when there is no English one. Absent for some older works and judgments."