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Eur Lex MCP Server

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Eur Lex MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. 194 installs a week from npm. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 30 Jul 2026.

Search EU legislation, CJEU case law, and treaties; traverse CELLAR graph; browse EuroVoc concepts.

Installs per day peak 541 · avg 86 · -30% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 39 hours of history · worst hour 75%
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
393 ms
Response time
average over 24h
194
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add eur-lex-mcp-server --transport http https://eur-lex.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eur-lex-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://eur-lex.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.eur-lex-mcp-server]
url = "https://eur-lex.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eur-lex-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://eur-lex.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eur-lex-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://eur-lex.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

eurlex
eurlex_browse_subjects
Search the EuroVoc thesaurus, resolving a keyword into concept URIs usable in the eurovoc_concept subject filter of eurlex_search_documents. Returns each concept URI, its preferred label in the requested language, code, and broader (parent) label, ordered alphabetically by label.
eurlex_get_cases
Search CJEU and General Court case law — judgments, orders, and Advocate General opinions — by case number, court, case type, keyword, and date range. By default only these primary records are returned; derivative judicial information notices, case abstracts, summaries, and corrigenda are excluded so distinct cases fill the page (set include_derivative to include them). Keyword matches English case titles (which carry party names) and CELEX strings; there is no full-text body search. Returns each case with its court, date, and type, plus — parsed from the title where present — the parties, subject matter, and case reference.
eurlex_get_document
Fetch the metadata and full text of an EU act by CELEX number, ELI URI, or work URI. Returns structured metadata (title, date, type, author institution, legal basis, EuroVoc subjects, in-force status) plus the act body as HTML, Markdown, or Formex4 XML, defaulting to English with automatic fallback. Large bodies are paged by default (offset/limit with has_more) or returned whole with content_mode "full"; use outline: true for a heading map and select to pull specific articles, chapters, recitals, or annexes.
eurlex_get_relations
Traverse the one-hop CDM relationship graph of an EU act: what it amends or is amended by, what it repeals or is repealed by (explicit and implicit), its consolidated versions, its legal basis, and works that cite it. Returns direct relations only, paginated per relation type and direction. Requires a CELEX number or CELLAR work URI.
eurlex_lookup_celex
Resolve an EU legal citation — a CELEX number or ELI URI — to its canonical CELLAR work, confirming it exists before you fetch or traverse it. Returns the work URI, confirmed CELEX number, document type, and date.
eurlex_query_sparql
Run a raw, read-only SPARQL SELECT against the CELLAR Virtuoso endpoint — an escape hatch for CDM ontology traversals the curated tools do not cover. Only SELECT is accepted; update forms and ASK/CONSTRUCT/DESCRIBE are rejected before execution, and results are capped at 100. The cdm:, skos:, and xsd: prefixes are auto-injected.
eurlex_search_documents
Search EU legislation, treaties, and preparatory acts across the CELLAR corpus by document type, date range, EuroVoc subject, author institution, and in-force status. Keyword matches English titles and CELEX strings only — there is no full-text body search. Returns a page of CELEX numbers, work URIs, type labels, dates, and titles, newest first, each flagged with is_consolidated. At least one filter is required.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://eur-lex.caseyjhand.com/mcp streamable-http answering 422 ms 7 min ago

Eur Lex MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Eur Lex MCP Server do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: eurlex_browse_subjects, eurlex_get_cases, eurlex_get_document, eurlex_get_relations, eurlex_lookup_celex, eurlex_query_sparql and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Eur Lex MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 393 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Eur Lex MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Eur Lex MCP Server need an API key?
No. Eur Lex MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Eur Lex MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 393 ms on average, which is faster than 34% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Eur Lex MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/eur-lex-mcp-server was installed 194 times in the last week. Week over week that is -30%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Eur Lex MCP Server open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 4 stars on GitHub and 7 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.