Legislation / 2013 100% open

Netherlands

Netherlands is ranked #1 for this dataset

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.

What data is available

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

Contributors

Reviewers

  • Arjan El Fassed

Submitters

  • Maarte n
  • Ton Zijlstra