endomorphosis/ipfs_switzerland_laws

Swiss Federal Classified Compilation (Fedlex / Systematische Rechtssammlung)

Research snapshot of official national legislation from Fedlex (Federal Chancellery) Classified Compilation (SR / Systematische Rechtssammlung).

Not legal advice. The official gazette / authentic source prevails over this corpus.

Snapshot

Field	Value
Snapshot date	2026-09-18
Coverage	snapshot
Source	Fedlex (Federal Chancellery) Classified Compilation (SR / Systematische Rechtssammlung)
Collector	scrapers/collect_ch.py
Laws / instruments	20,080 (5,086 federal + 14,994 cantonal)
Articles	483,891 (141,697 federal + 342,194 cantonal)
Language	de, fr, it
Jurisdiction	Switzerland
License	ch-fedlex-urg-art5-publv

Contents

• data/laws.parquet — one row per instrument.
• data/articles.parquet — article/section rows for the same snapshot.
• scrapers/collect_ch.py — research collector used to build this snapshot.

License / reuse

Official legislative texts not protected by copyright (URG Art. 5); PublV Art. 48–49 reuse conditions.

This dataset is not legal advice. The official source prevails.

Source

• https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/

Known gaps

Incomplete vs 5086 in-force SR instruments; snapshot of whatever JSON exists at export time.

Cantonal (subnational) law — added 2026-09-27 (staged, append-only)

Rows with jurisdiction = 'CH-<canton>' (e.g. CH-ZH) are in-force texts from each canton's official systematic law collection. Federal rows (jurisdiction = 'CH') are unchanged and come first in both files. IDs: laws ch-<canton>-<systematic number> (spaces and '/' become '_'); articles <law_id>-art-<label> (with -2, -3 … added if a label repeats). The official number is in identifier. Language is the canton's official collection language: de; fr for FR/VS/VD/GE/JU; it for TI.

Canton	Laws	Articles	Laws with articles	Official source
AG	463	11,238	430	gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch
AI	421	7,080	416	ai.clex.ch (linked from www.ai.ch)
AR	332	7,378	330	ar.clex.ch
BE	711	20,683	700	www.belex.sites.be.ch
BL	860	16,035	855	bl.clex.ch
BS	944	17,731	861	www.gesetzessammlung.bs.ch
FR	814	20,186	797	bdlf.fr.ch
GE	865	22,973	852	silgeneve.ch/legis (rsGE toc + htm)
GL	489	10,082	482	gesetze.gl.ch
GR	419	10,534	396	www.gr-lex.gr.ch
JU	855	16,581	846	rsju.jura.ch (PDF)
LU	630	14,912	624	srl.lu.ch
NW	401	10,976	397	gesetze.nw.ch
OW	516	8,485	461	gdb.ow.ch
SG	732	15,774	726	www.gesetzessammlung.sg.ch
SH	431	9,237	431	rechtsbuch.sh.ch
SO	539	12,231	441	bgs.so.ch
TG	461	11,094	460	www.rechtsbuch.tg.ch
TI	622	16,361	612	www3.ti.ch/CAN/RLeggi
UR	378	8,150	366	rechtsbuch.ur.ch
VD	895	25,478	892	prestations.vd.ch/pub/blv-publication (BLV API)
VS	690	18,032	690	lex.vs.ch
ZG	686	9,672	632	bgs.zg.ch
ZH	840	21,291	749	www.zh.ch ZH-Lex LS + www.notes.zh.ch PDFs
SZ	0	0	0	www.sz.ch — BLOCKED_SOURCE (3× HTTP 403)
NE	0	0	0	rsn.ne.ch — robots.txt disallows everything except /DATA/

Collectors and parsers: scrapers/ch_cantonal_*.py.

Known limitations (cantonal)

• Only 24 of 26 cantons are covered. Schwyz (SZ) is BLOCKED_SOURCE: www.sz.ch returned 3 consecutive HTTP 403s; collection stopped with no mirrors/aggregators (e.g. LexFind), no user-agent changes and no contact with the canton. Neuchâtel (NE) was skipped because rsn.ne.ch robots.txt forbids listing (Disallow: /, only /DATA/ allowed), so the collection cannot be enumerated.
• In-force texts only. Abrogated texts, older versions, and change documents are not included.
• LexWork annexes are not text-extracted. For the 18 LexWork cantons plus AI, annex (Anhang) documents are not included as text; their titles are kept in the law metadata_json.annex_titles.
• Some texts come from PDFs. ZH and JU, plus 667 LexWork texts whose current version has no structured content, were parsed from the official PDFs with pdftotext and a line-start regex. Margin notes, page headers and footnote numbers can be mixed into article text, and headings are not separated. TI article splitting is regex-based on the official HTML.
• Hosting on clex.ch. AR, BL and AI are served from *.clex.ch, the LexWork hosting that the cantons' own sites link or redirect to as their official collection.
• Numbering gaps. Numbering check (per law: article base numbers non-decreasing, covering 1..N, repealed ranges counted): 14,064 pass, 361 fail and 569 have no numbered articles. Most failures are in GE, JU and ZH. Many are repealed articles missing from the source; some are PDF split errors.
• Laws without articles. 548 cantonal laws have no article rows (for example treaties divided into roman-numeral sections, tariffs, and short decisions). Their full text is in laws.text.
• GE coverage not verified. GE coverage is the 865 texts listed in the official rsGE table of contents; this was not checked independently.
• license field. It is set to "public-domain (URG Art. 5)". Only the official cantonal publication is legally binding.