About emendrix
Your regulatory dependencies, with a changelog. emendrix watches EU legislation, computes provision-level diffs when it is amended, and explains what changed in plain English where every sentence cites a provision you can click.
What it is
emendrix watches the Publications Office notification feed for the acts on its watchlist. When one of them is amended it fetches both consolidated versions as structured XML, computes which articles and annexes differ, checks that finding against two independent signals, the publisher's own amendment metadata and a parse of the amending act's instructions, and has a model phrase the difference between the two verbatim texts. Anything the three sources disagree about ships marked disputed rather than dropped.
The model never decides whether something changed, which provisions were involved, or what kind of change it is. Every other stage is deterministic Python, and each result is committed to a git repository as Markdown and JSON before any of it reaches a page.
How each of those claims is measured, over what, and what none of the figures means is on the methodology page.
What it is not
It is not a lawyer's review, and it is not the official text. Every act and every event here links the consolidated version the comparison was computed from, and that document, not this page, is the one to read when an answer has to be right.
Every act here is watched in its English text. Directives are not on the watchlist: they take effect through each Member State's own transposing law, and a change to one has a second dimension this pipeline has no model for. A consolidated version with no English text is recorded as such and never translated.
Nothing here is selected to flatter the tool. Every figure the project measures is published with the sentence saying what it does not mean, the cases it fails included.
Who runs it
This instance of emendrix is run by Martins Erts.
Write to martins.erts@gmail.com. A message sent to that address arrives in the operator's own mailbox and goes nowhere else.
The code and the data
The generator is open source in the emendrix repository, and the changelog documents it writes are public in the changelog repository. Every page here is a rendering of files committed to those two places, so anything the site shows can be traced back to something a reader can open.
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