Methodology

This page describes how entries enter the register. It is written so the register can be cited. Placeholder wording until the owner voice pass.

1. Selection

An instrument is listed when it creates, proposes, or clarifies a legal obligation related to kill-switch, stop, safe-state, human oversight for interruption, or loss-of-control controls for AI or AI-enabled systems. Advisory material without a legal instrument may be listed as guidance when it is issued by a public authority.

2. Source gate (enforced by the build)

Every published entry cites at least two sources with distinct publishers, and at least one primary source. Primary means bill text, official register, parliament or commission page, a legislature committee's own analysis, a codified-statute page on the legislature's own site, regulator publication, or gazette. Direct links only. The two-publisher and primary-source rules are enforced by continuous integration; an entry that fails them cannot ship. Unpublished tracked entries are exempt from those two checks and must carry a blockedReason.

3. Counts

Published: 7. Tracked but not published: 1. Candidates awaiting review (not yet in the collection): 0. Absence is recorded, not hidden.

• Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 — The text of this instrument has not been retrieved in five verification passes, so no provision of it has been read and none is asserted here. Nine EUR-Lex URL forms have failed across four passes; three returned the text of a different regulation. Two primary sources about this instrument have been read and are listed, which is why this entry is not blocked for want of sources — it is blocked because nothing in the instrument itself has been read.

4. Shared statutory text

Where two instruments share text, the register treats them as one drafting and not as independent corroboration. Cross-links and a byte-identity build check enforce that.

5. Verification cadence

Each published entry carries a lastVerified ISO date. The build fails if any published entry is older than 180 days. Research runs on a scheduled pass; output is reviewed by a person and merged by a person. The register has been researched more often than the site has been updated — that lag is the current state, not a claimed cadence.

6. Languages

Interface chrome is available in multiple locales. Instrument text is maintained in English; English is authoritative. Non-English pages may carry machine-translated UI and are not human-reviewed for instrument substance. The JSON export is English-only.

7. Corrections

Send corrections to [email protected]. There is no submissions form in v1.

8. Privacy and indexing

No cookie analytics. If measurement is added later, it will be privacy-preserving and described here. robots.txt allows indexing of all public pages. Machine-readable export: /api/instruments.json.

9. What this is not

This site is a register, not advocacy. Argument and position live at thebigredbutton.org.