How EUImpact is written

EU law is public, but it is not readable. A regulation can run hundreds of pages, then split into national laws, guidance, and delayed dates. EUImpact is a reading layer: same files, fewer fog words, and a company briefing on how to work the file.

Each dossier starts from the adopted text on EUR-Lex and the Commission’s official pages. We add impact slices (prices, labour, operations, trade), a scope test, a first-move list, evidence to keep, vendor questions, typical failure modes, and enforcement. Impact meters are editorial judgements, not econometrics.

The company desk maps a simple profile (size + activities) onto those files. It is a triage tool. Thresholds, annexes, and national transpositions decide the real scope — especially for directives such as NIS2, CSRD, pay transparency, and the buildings recast.

For professional readers, each file also carries a briefing: legal basis and instrument type, operators, territorial and material scope, operative provisions with practical implications, secondary law, national-layer traps, cross-file interactions, enforcement and private rights, a short risk register, and primary sources. Dates and Omnibus amendments move; we flag that rather than freeze a 2023 slide.

Country and “in scope?” are a browser profile (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands). Directives get a national note — who enforces, and whether transposition is late. The obligation calendar is Union switch-on dates, filtered by that profile, not a plenary diary. It is a triage layer. National gazettes still win.

EU News is the official press rooms of the Commission, the Parliament and the Council. We do not rewrite those statements. Headlines that name an instrument (AI Act, CSRD, CBAM) are tagged onto that law page. Independent Brussels titles sit on the media landscape, not in the news desk.

The media landscape page is a map of how EU law is mediated: Brussels specialists, public international channels, national papers, wires, and investigative rooms. Live headlines come from public RSS or Atom feeds where the outlet allows it; some titles only appear as a directory because their feeds are shielded. Ownership notes are editorial, not a pluralism index.

The events diary lists upcoming Council meetings from official meeting feeds, remaining 2026 Parliament plenary part-sessions from the adopted calendar, and open Commission events where a DG publishes RSS. Confirm times and rooms on the institution calendar before you travel.

EU Preview is the forward desk: adopted law that is switching on, files still in ordinary legislative procedure, and the sittings that can move them. Each item splits citizen and business impact. It is editorial, not a prediction market. Confirm dates on the institution calendars and the Official Journal.

Dates move. Omnibus and delay debates (CSRD, EUDR, CSDDD) can shift waves. We mark phase-ins rather than pretending a single switch-on day. Re-read the Official Journal before you spend.

For the institutions themselves — Commission, Parliament, Council, Court, and how a file reaches the Official Journal — see How the EU works. This page is only how EUImpact is written.

This is not legal advice and not an EU website. If you must comply, use the official act, your national rules, and qualified counsel. Nothing here creates a client relationship or a compliance certificate.