A Legal Act is an architectural building block of the EIRA Legal view supporting the Legal interoperability layer of the European Interoperability Framework.


Legal Act is a specialisation of Business Object. (EU) legal acts are legislative or non-legislative acts adopted by the European institutions (Article 288 TFEU). With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on 1 December 2009. The names "European Union" or "EU" have replaced "European Community", "Community" or "EC".


The Legal Act ABB is salient for interoperability because it helps achieve legal interoperability by ensuring compatible legal/juridical certainty in the exchange of information.


Examples can be found in the Legislation Catalogue.



The latest release of the EIRA© is available on Joinup.


Source: European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA version 3) (url) (with information on the 3rd release at the website of the ISA² - Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens).