Estonian municipal legal acts (Riigi Teataja IV) — ipfs_estonia_municipal_laws

Status: EXPAND (T1 + T2). Tranche 1 (939 RT IV KOV records from the xml.2024 open-data file, as of 2024-11-01) is kept unchanged. Tranche 2 appends 10,946 in-force KOV acts (113,751 articles) collected from the Riigi Teataja public API. Total: 11,885 laws / 116,030 articles. Existing id values did not change; T2 excludes the 90 ids already in T1.

Regulations (määrused) and other acts of Estonian local governments (vald / linn councils and governments), as published in Riigi Teataja part IV.

Not legal advice. This is not the official version. The authoritative text is the one published in Riigi Teataja (riigiteataja.ee).

Legal basis

• Autoriõiguse seadus § 5 (p 3): legislation and administrative documents (õigusaktid ja haldusdokumendid) are not protected by copyright.
• The license column carries this statement on every row.

Snapshot

Field	Value
Source	Riigi Teataja avaandmed xml.2024: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/avaandmed/ERT/xml.2024.zip (official open data; file generated 2026-10-04, sha256 3157f628…5866)
Snapshot as of	2024-11-01 (latest publication date in xml.2024). law_status, in_force_as_of and the canonical version are all evaluated on this date, and every row carries metadata_json.as_of_date = "2024-11-01".
Retrieved	retrieved_at 2026-10-06T02:52:29-0700 (parse of the downloaded xml.2024.zip)
Records (laws)	939: 218 current, 164 historical_version, 52 future_version, 505 repealed
Canonical / other versions	704 canonical, 235 non-canonical (version_of → canonical)
Articles (§)	2,279, from the 310 canonical non-repealed acts only
Local governments	177 issuer LGs (names as published); 77 current EHAK municipalities after successor mapping
Act dates (date)	2000-07-20 – 2041-01-01 (dates after 2024-11-01 are scheduled entries published by then: repeal notices carry their repeal effective date, future versions their start date)
Document types	määrus 939

Tranche 1 scope and modelling

• T1 scope: all 939 RT IV KOV records in xml.2024 (full texts and versions published in that file). It is not the full in-force set; that comes in T2 (about 11k acts).
• Repeals are kept as metadata. 505 records are RT "Kehtetu" repeal notices. They have law_status = "repealed" and no articles. metadata_json.repeal_* holds the repealing act (repeal_rt_ref, repeal_rt_akt_id, repeal_rt_url, repeal_published, repeal_effective), and repeal_in_effect_as_of says whether the repeal had already taken effect on 2024-11-01.
• Versions of the same act (key: LG + doc type + act number + issuer + adoption date) are linked with metadata_json.is_canonical, version_of, canonical_id, version_group_key and version_rank.
  • Canonical = the version in force on 2024-11-01. Ties go to the latest valid_from, then the latest publication.
  • If no version was in force, the canonical is the latest version started by then, or else the earliest future version. These 97 groups are flagged canonical_ambiguous = true.
  • 2 versions that a later repeal notice cancelled before they took effect are historical_version, with superseded_by_repeal_stub and valid_to_effective set.
• law_status (as of 2024-11-01): current = in force on that date, future_version = starts later, historical_version = ended before (or never took effect), repealed = repeal notice. No row claims to be in force after 2024-11-01.

EHAK (administrative units)

• jurisdiction is EE-<EHAK code>, using the Statistics Estonia EHAK2026v1 code of the issuing local government (metadata_json.ehak_code, ehak_match = "direct", 703 records).
• Acts of local governments abolished in the 2017 administrative reform or later (236 records) are mapped to their current successor. The mapping uses Statistics Estonia's floating classifier EHAK2017ap (version 45, https://klassifikaatorid.stat.ee): settlement continuity plus official change notes, and every successor is validated against EHAK2026v1.
  • Fields: ehak_match = "successor", ehak_successor, ehak_successor_name, ehak_successor_county, ehak_successor_method, ehak_chain, ehak_abolished_code, ehak_change_note.
  • The original name stays in lg_name_original.
  • Unmapped: 0.

Attachments: placeholders only

Riigi Teataja embeds attachments (lisad, mostly PDF) in the XML as base64. In this dataset, every embedded file is replaced by a placeholder of the form

[attachment: <name>, <mime>, <bytes>, <sha256>]

<bytes> and <sha256> are those of the decoded file. 389 placeholders in 177 records replace 269 MB of decoded files, so total text drops from 366 MB to 3.3 MB; the largest text is 94,643 bytes. The files themselves are not included; the originals remain available from the source (Riigi Teataja). metadata_json.attachments_stripped lists each file with these fields:

• name, name_source (an XML attachment file name where it could be matched, else the text label)
• mime, bytes, sha256
• label, location

metadata_json.attachments keeps the attachment file names from the XML. In 317 titles, Riigi Teataja appends a note (e.g. the "Kehtetu"-marked version note). That note was moved to metadata_json.title_note (+ title_note_ts), leaving a clean title.

Configs and schema

Laws and articles have different schemas, so each one has its own config.

config	rows	file
default	11,885 laws (T1 939 + T2 10,946)	data/laws.parquet, data/ee_t2_laws_*.parquet
articles	116,030 articles (T1 2,279 + T2 113,751)	data/articles.parquet, data/ee_t2_articles_*.parquet

• Article id re-key (2026-10-17): in the first T2 push, 785 article ids repeated inside 364 laws because § numbers restart within a law. Rule: in shard order (ee_t2_articles_0000..0011, row order) the first occurrence of an id keeps it; the k-th repeat (k>=2) becomes <id>-<k>, e.g. EE-RT-401022023034-par3-2. Only the id column of the 12 T2 article shards changed (785 rows); T1 files, laws files and all other columns are unchanged. Totals unchanged: 11,885 laws, 116,030 articles, all article ids unique. See build_report_t2.json (article_id_rekey).

from datasets import load_dataset
laws = load_dataset("endomorphosis/ipfs_estonia_municipal_laws", split="train")
arts = load_dataset("endomorphosis/ipfs_estonia_municipal_laws", "articles", split="train")

• laws uses the same schema as the other ipfs_*_laws datasets:
  • id (EE-RT-<RT akt id>), title, text, source_url (riigiteataja.ee/akt/), source_type
  • jurisdiction (EE-<EHAK>), country, language, eli, date, date_issued, retrieved_at, license
  • law_status (current / historical_version / future_version / repealed, as of 2024-11-01)
  • identifier, official_identifier, article_count, json_path
  • metadata_json: RT metadata (issuer, doc type, act number, adoption/publication/validity dates), as_of_date, version links, repeal fields, EHAK fields, attachments, attachments_stripped and title_note.
• articles: law_id, id, title, text, source_url, document_number, article_number, record_type, metadata_json. Articles exist only for canonical, non-repealed acts.

Validation

• 0 duplicate law IDs, 0 duplicate article IDs, 0 orphan articles, 0 article_count mismatches.
• 0 texts over 1 MB, and no base64-looking run over 1,000 chars in any field.
• A 20-item hand check found 0 FAIL. Placeholders were checked by re-decoding the original blobs.
• Source manifest sha256 600b8fdd4333dbea….

Tranche 2 (T2) - appended 2026-10-17

Field	Value
Source	Riigi Teataja public API (https://www.riigiteataja.ee, /public-api/api/v1/akt/<id>/blob-xml), in-force local-government (KOV) acts, reportStatus KEHTIV
Files	data/ee_t2_laws_0000..0011.parquet, data/ee_t2_articles_0000..0011.parquet (same schema as T1; T1 files data/laws.parquet / data/articles.parquet untouched)
Rows	10,946 laws, 113,751 articles, 221 local governments, 0 duplicate law ids, 0 duplicate article ids (after the 2026-10-17 re-key, see below), 0 empty texts
Status reference	metadata_json.status_ref_date = 2026-10-16 (T2 rows are in force on that date; T1 rows are as of 2024-11-01)
Combined	11,885 laws (939 + 10,946), 116,030 articles (2,279 + 113,751), all ids unique
Build report	build_report_t2.json (sha256 of every shard)

• Robots basis: www.riigiteataja.ee/robots.txt (evidence 2026-10-04 / 2026-10-06) allows /akt/ in general and has no crawl-delay. It disallows */kohtulahendid/*, */kohtuteave/*, some */kronoloogia/* and a list of specific */akt/<id>/* entries; those were skipped. Collection was host-locked to www.riigiteataja.ee, used a descriptive User-Agent, a 2.0 s minimum delay, a memory guard and a 3-strike stop on HTTP 403/429/503. The xml.2025/xml.2026 bulk dumps were not used for T2.
• Restore-loss re-fetch: 806 laws (ids in the range 418072026050..421042015011) were lost from the local staging in a restore and were re-fetched on 2026-10-17 from the same API with the same guard (script scrapers/ee_t2_refetch.py). The package check shows 10,946 / 10,946 ledger-ok ids present.
• Count gap: discovery listed 11,036 in-force KOV acts; 90 were already in T1, leaving 10,946 net new (the 11,045 expectation included those 90 plus 9 from a listing/EHAK count difference).
• Scrapers: scrapers/ holds the collector (ee_t2_collect.py), re-fetch (ee_t2_refetch.py), launchers, shared polite_collect_lib.py, pa_exit_guard.py and the package builder. No secrets are included.
• Act text is the Riigi Teataja text, not an official version; see the legal-basis section above (not protected by copyright, Autoriõiguse seadus § 5 p 3).

from datasets import load_dataset
laws = load_dataset("endomorphosis/ipfs_estonia_municipal_laws", split="train")   # 11,885
arts = load_dataset("endomorphosis/ipfs_estonia_municipal_laws", "articles", split="train")  # 116,030