About Parltrack
Parltrack is a European initiative to improve the transparency of legislative processes. It combines dossiers, MEPs, vote results and committee agendas into a unique database and allows the tracking of dossiers using email and RSS. Most of the data displayed is also available for further processing in JSON format. Using Parltrack it's easy to see at a glance which dossiers are being handled by committees and MEPs.
Sources
Parltrack currently monitors the European law-making using the data available from europarl.europa.eu. The data is being scraped from OEIL, EP plenary minutes, online MEP profiles, IPEX and parliamentary committee agendas.
Legal
Copyright
The EP releases this data under the following terms:
Reproduction of textual data and multimedia items which are the property of the European Union (identified by the words '© European Union, [year(s)] – Source: European Parliament' or '© European Union, [year(s)] – EP' ) or of third parties (© External source, [year(s)]) and for which the European Union holds the rights of use is authorised for non-commercial purposes only provided that the entire item is reproduced and the source is acknowledged.
As long as the European institutions do not provide everything as raw data in open machine-processable formats, there can always be some errors in the data being scraped, so all warranties for the fitness of this data are void.
The data available as JSON from Parltrack is available under the Open Database License v1.0 (ODBL). Parltrack is available as free software under the Affero GPL v3+ license.
The image of the EP plenary is by Alina Zienowicz, from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Privacy
Parltrack currently does not use cookies, the only private information stored are the email addresses of the users of the monitoring feature. These email addresses are used for the sole purpose of monitoring dossiers. Web server access logs are stored for a maximum of one year for statistical purposes only.
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Parltrack is inspired by Tratten.
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