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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. 1 567 installs a week from npm. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 26 Oct 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 340 · avg 98 · +470% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
485 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1 567
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 83

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 23 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

26 Oct a tool changed version
25 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten eurlex_get_document, eurlex_get_relations, eurlex_lookup_celex
25 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for eurlex_get_relations, eurlex_lookup_celex
25 Oct a tool changed version
23 Oct 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for eurlex_get_cases, eurlex_get_relations, eurlex_search_documents
23 Oct a tool description was rewritten eurlex_get_cases
23 Oct a tool changed version
15 Oct 7 tools changed the parameters they ask for eurlex_browse_subjects, eurlex_get_cases, eurlex_get_document and 4 more
15 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten eurlex_get_relations, eurlex_query_sparql
15 Oct a tool changed version
and 61 more, back to 23 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Eur Lex MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
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
{
  "servers": {
    "eur-lex-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "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. Matches both preferred and alternative (non-preferred) labels, so a common synonym reaches the concept it stands for. Returns each concept URI, its preferred label in the requested language, code, broader (parent) label, and the alternative label that matched when one did. Concepts with an exact label match come first, then those whose label or one of its words starts with the keyword, then other substring matches, each group ordered by preferred label.
eurlex_get_cases
Search CJEU and General Court case law — judgments, orders, and Advocate General opinions and views — by case number, court, case type, keyword, and date range. A case number reaches every judgment, order, AG opinion, and AG view filed under it. 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 CELEX number (whose sixth character names the court: C, T, or F), work URI, ECLI, date, and type, plus — parsed from the title where present — the formation, Advocate General, parties, referring court, subject matter, and case reference. The raw CELLAR title is returned only when those fields do not capture all of it.
eurlex_get_document
Fetch the metadata and full text of an EU act or case-law record by CELEX number, ELI URI, or work URI. Returns structured metadata (title, date, type, ELI, Official Journal reference, typed dates of effect, transposition deadlines, author institution, Advocates General, legal basis, EuroVoc subjects, in-force status and, for an act not in force, its repealing acts, end of validity, or pending entry into force; for case law, the ECLI and the formation, referring court, subject matter, and case reference parsed from the title) plus the body as HTML, Markdown, or Formex4 XML, defaulting to English with automatic fallback. Every body returned in one call is capped at 100,000 characters — paged and full windows page onward with offset/limit; use outline: true for a heading map and select to pull specific articles, chapters, recitals, or annexes of an act, or the headed sections and operative part of a judgment or order, reading a selected section on its own from the offset and chars in selected_sections.
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, national transposition measures, its legal basis and the works adopted under it, the proposal it adopts (or, for a proposal, the act that adopted it), the CJEU rulings interpreting it (or, for a ruling, the acts it interprets), and works that cite it. Amendment, repeal, interpretation, and adoption rows carry the provisions CELLAR records each edge as targeting, and article narrows interpreted_by to the rulings on one article. 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, ELI URI, ECLI, an OJ citation naming its act type and year (e.g. "Regulation (EU) 2016/679", "Directive 95/46/EC"), or an Official Journal reference naming its issue, date, and first page (e.g. "OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1") — to its canonical CELLAR work, confirming it exists before you fetch or traverse it. Returns the work URI, confirmed CELEX number, document type, date, and the ECLI of a case that carries one. A CELEX that CELLAR holds under several works resolves to the one the EUR-Lex content resolver serves. An ECLI shared by several records (a judgment and its abstract or extract, or a joined AG opinion) resolves to the primary record with the lowest CELEX. An OJ reference whose first page starts several acts returns found false, its notice naming each CELEX.
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 the server row cap (100 by default). 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. Corrigenda are excluded by default so primary acts fill the page (set include_corrigenda to include them). Returns a page of CELEX numbers, work URIs, type labels, dates, and titles, newest first, each flagged with is_consolidated and is_corrigendum. At least one filter is required.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://eur-lex.caseyjhand.com/mcp streamable-http answering 248 ms 7 min ago

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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 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 485 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 in the form 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 485 ms on average, which is faster than 25% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. 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 1 567 times in the last week. Week over week that is +470%. 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?
The code is open source: it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 11 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at eur-lex.caseyjhand.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.