National Archives races to create electronic archive of EU law before Brexit

The National Archives faces challenges converting the EU's enormous library of laws into a publicly accessible UK archive ahead of Brexit. The Archives’ digital director, John Sheridan, explains how

Almost as soon as the EU referendum result was known, John L Sheridan could see that transforming the way the UK publishes legislation after Brexit was going to be a big job.

Sheridan is digital director at The National Archives, which bears the statutory responsibility for archiving and publishing UK law. That work has two prongs: publishing all current UK law on the government’s public site, Legislation.gov.uk, and incorporating all EU law into its own historical archives for future generations to consult.

Both present technical challenges. Besides the sudden considerable expansion of the corpus of both current and archived law that the UK’s departure from Europe brings about, Sheridan will have to solve the question of how to import all the necessary data from Europe’s law archive, EUR-Lex, and convert it to the formats used by the UK.

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