Legislation / 2013 100% open

What data is expected?

This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Content of the law / status
• If applicable, all relevant amendments to the law
• Date of last amendments
• Data should be updated at least on quarterly

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? Yes (No URL given)
•   Is the data available for free? Yes
•   Is the data machine readable? Yes (Webservice, XML)
•   Available in bulk? Yes
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
•   Publicly available? Yes
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

Although the data download page at data.overheid.nl states the date of the data set is Nov 2012, in reality if you download the XML file, it will have a generation date of today. The data is updated daily.

All laws are also available through webinterface at http://wetten.overheid.nl/zoeken/