An R package for the European Union Technical Regulations (EUTR) Database. The EUTR database is part of the European Union Compliance Project (EUCP), which also includes the European Union Infringement Procedure (EUIP) Database and the European Union State Aid (EUSA) Database. The EUCP is introduced in the working paper "Legal Compliance in the European Union: Institutional Procedures and Strategic Enforcement Behavior" by Joshua C. Fjelstul.

The EUTR Database includes 15 datasets on the EU technical regulations procedure (also known as the 2015/1535 procedure after the directive that most recently revised the procedure), including data on proposed technical regulations notified to the Commission by member states, comments filed by third-party member states and the Commission, and detailed opinions filed by third-party member states and the Commission. It also includes time-series and cross-sectional time-series on notifications and time-series, cross-sectional time-series, directed dyad-year, and network data on comments and detailed opinions.

You can install the latest development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jfjelstul/eutr")

The codebook for the database is included as a tibble in the package: eutr::codebook. The same documentation is also available in the R documentation for each dataset. For example, you can see the codebook for the eutr::notifications dataset by running ?eutr::notifications. You can also read the documentation on the package website.

If you use data from the eutr package in a project or paper, please cite the R package:

Joshua Fjelstul (2021). eutr: The European Union Technical Regulations (EUTR) Database. R package version 0.1.0.9500.

The BibTeX entry for the package is:

@Manual{,
  title = {eutr: The European Union Technical Regulations (EUTR) Database},
  author = {Joshua Fjelstul},
  year = {2021},
  note = {R package version 0.1.0.9500},
}

If you notice an error in the data or a bug in the R package, please report the error here.