EU Market Guide · Methodology
How we verify
Compliance information is only as good as its verification process. So we publish ours – including what it does not cover.
1. Research from primary sources
For every country we research authorities, registers, statutes and approved schemes at the source: EUR-Lex, national law portals, authority and register pages, official approval lists. Every statement on this site carries its source and retrieval date. Industry and vendor articles only point the way – they never confirm anything.
2. One truth, structured
The legal position lives in a structured rules base – country, obligation, applicability conditions, authority, register, deadlines, sources, verification date – not in prose. The AI assistant phrases and explains this data; it never decides the legal position itself. Where something isn't sourced, we say so honestly.
3. Adversarial verification
Before approval, an independent verification pass tries to refute every load-bearing claim: statutes are read in the original, deadlines checked against the official gazette, scheme approvals against official lists. Every finding goes into an audit protocol – confirmed, corrected, or marked uncertain. What cannot be confirmed from primary sources is not asserted, but flagged as open.
4. What the statuses mean
“Draft” means: researched and sourced, adversarial verification still in progress. “Source-verified” means: every load-bearing claim has been checked against primary sources, with a visible verification date. Both are structured legal information – not legal advice for individual cases and not a lawyer's review. For binding answers we point to the linked authorities.
5. Found an error?
Regulation changes, and no process is perfect. If a statement looks wrong or outdated to you: tell us – we check against the primary source and correct quickly. Changes are documented in the changelog.
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