Our method: how information reaches GovToDate

Official sources only

For each country and each topic we keep a list of official websites: administrations, official gazettes, public bodies, professional regulators and European institutions. Our searches are limited to that list — never a blog, a news outlet or a private site.

Two checks before anything is published

An AI model reads the official pages found and summarises what changed. An entry is published only if both conditions hold: the site it cites is on the official list for that country and topic, and our search actually retrieved a page from that site. Otherwise it is not published.

Only changes rated critical or important are published; lesser items are not.

What the date means

"Detected on" is the date our monitoring found the change — not the date the text was adopted, nor the date it takes effect. Those dates are in the official source.

Languages

Each entry is shown in the page's language when the source uses it; otherwise in English, when an English version exists; otherwise in its original language. The official text, in its own language, prevails.

When a page exists

A page for a country and topic, or for an official source, is only published from three entries. The same change found twice — same title, same source — appears once.

Our limits

Summaries are written automatically from the official pages: they can be incomplete or wrong. Every entry links to its official source — that is what prevails.

Our figures, like the barometer's, count what we detected, not a country's legislative activity.

Nothing on this site is personalised legal advice.

Report an error

Think an entry is wrong? Write to contact@govtodate.com with the link to the page.