The ELI (European Legislation Identifier) ontology for legal impacts (abbreviated ELI-I) is an extension of the core ELI ontology that gives a formal data model to express impacts of legislation acts.
ELI-I allow to describe:
- the impact analysis process,
- the impacts of modifying text,
- the updates to the consolidated version of the legislation in response to these changes.
Impacts from any source may also be described, such as court of justice decisions, doctrinal texts, even if those impacts would not be consolidated.
ELI-I resolves around the notion of "Impact". It can be used to describe the detailed impact of the modifying text on the basic text or the latest version of its consolidation. This information includes the type of impact, the subdivision of the modifying text that describes the impact, the subsection of the text affected in current legislation, the text segment describing the change, the text segment to be changed, the type of change in the text, and the position of the text to be altered.