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Lex-Ray is operated by Simmons & Simmons Solutions Limited, a Simmons & Simmons group company. The Simmons & Simmons Data Protection Privacy Notice explains how Simmons & Simmons and its group companies collect, use, share and protect personal data, and how you can exercise your rights.

What Lex-Ray records

When you create an account we hold your name, email address and sign-in identifiers. When you accept the customer terms, and when you opt in to a paid tier, we record your account, the version of the terms, the time, the network address the acceptance was made from, and the tier and price you were shown, as evidence of your agreement.

Content you submit to Lex-Ray, such as notes, saved work and searches, is stored to provide the service to you and is handled as the customer terms describe.

Product-specific cookies and storage

Lex-Ray uses only strictly necessary first-party cookies and browser storage. We use these technologies to provide and secure the service, including sign-in, access control, session security, product performance, local caching, content protection and watermarking.

The browser technologies we use may include cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, service-worker cache storage and similar local storage.

We do not use third-party advertising cookies, marketing cookies or third-party analytics cookies in Lex-Ray. Because these technologies are strictly necessary to provide and secure the service, they are not optional and are not switched off through a cookie consent banner.

Operational telemetry

We use first-party operational telemetry and logs to monitor performance, diagnose faults, protect the service and understand usage of the product. Azure Application Insights is configured not to use cookies or persistent browser storage for telemetry.

Privacy notice version 3.

Lex-Ray Web Terms

1. ABOUT LEX-RAY

1.1 Lex-Ray is operated and sold by Simmons & Simmons Solutions Limited (“we”, “us”), a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales with number 11352445, whose registered office is at CityPoint, One Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9SS.

1.2 Lex-Ray is an automated tool for processing, analysing and displaying legislation and regulatory material, including European Union legislation, United Kingdom legislation and the FCA Handbook. It aims to structure and enrich legal texts. It is not an official source of law.

2. DISCLAIMER

2.1 The information presented is generated by automated parsing and analysis of documents published by third parties. While efforts are made for accuracy, that process is complex and subject to error: the data may contain inaccuracies, omissions or misinterpretations.

2.2 Lex-Ray does not provide legal advice. Do not rely solely on the information presented here for legal research or decision-making. The official sources are the publications of the relevant authorities, and where a legal position matters you should satisfy yourself against those publications. Lex-Ray may present a version of an instrument that is not the version in force at the relevant time.

2.3 Lex-Ray is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty, and is under ongoing development. Functionality and data presentation may change. Use is at your own risk.

3. LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

3.1 Source material displayed by Lex-Ray is published by third parties and used under their own licences, which you must observe. Each source, the licence it is used under, its credit and its provenance are set out on our Third Party Licences page, which is the record and which we update as sources are added or their licences change.

3.2 Lex-Ray processes those source documents to create a structured and enriched derivative work. You may use the underlying source documents according to the reuse policy or licence that applies to each of them. The structure, parsing, markup, cross-references, analysis and presentation that Lex-Ray generates (the “derived data”) are a separate work in which copyright is held by Simmons & Simmons Solutions Limited. Copyright in human-authored Lex-Ray content and in the Lex-Ray software is held by Simmons & Simmons LLP and licensed to Simmons & Simmons Solutions Limited. All rights are reserved.

3.3 You may access and use Lex-Ray as provided on this website for informational purposes, commercial or non-commercial, in accordance with these terms. You may not host or redistribute whole pages of content from it as a service to others.

3.4 You may not extract, copy, modify, distribute or reverse-engineer, or run, the Lex-Ray source code or the specific structured data outputs generated by Lex-Ray. This restriction applies to our own work — the derived data, the human-authored content and the software. It does not restrict, and is not intended to restrict, whatever you are independently entitled to do with the underlying official texts under the licence that applies to them.

4. ACCOUNT HOLDERS

4.1 If you hold a Lex-Ray account, your use of the Platform as an account holder is governed by the Service Terms you accepted when you created it, which prevail over these terms to the extent of any conflict. These terms continue to govern the public parts of the site and any access without an account.

Web Terms v3.

Lex-Ray processes and analyzes legislation — European Union law from EUR-Lex and United Kingdom law from legislation.gov.uk — transforming legal documents into structured, searchable data.

Key Features:

Extracts legislation using CELEX identifiers (EU) and legislation.gov.uk URIs (UK).
Parses HTML into structured content (recitals, articles, annexes).
Automatically identifies and marks up defined terms within the text.
Detects and links cross-references between articles and other legislation.
Fetches definitions from related documents for context.

Rich Content:

Floodlight Bar: As you navigate between articles/sections (using arrows or clicking), a "Floodlight Bar" panel appears. This panel displays the definitions of terms used within the currently focused section, providing immediate context.
Copying: One click to copy content to your clipboard.

Navigation & Filtering:

Use keyboard shortcuts for quick access:

Navigate (`#`): Press `#` to open the navigation overlay. Type `a10`, `r5`, or `anI` (for Annex I) to jump directly to that section.
Filter (`/`): Press `/` to open the filter overlay.
- Type text to filter visible sections based on content.
- Type `d:term-id` (e.g., `d:financial-instrument`) to show only sections that use that specific definition.
- Type `d+:term-id` (e.g., `d+:undertaking`) to show sections using that definition *or any definitions it references*.
Search (`>`): Press `>` to open the text search overlay. Type text to highlight all occurrences within the document.
Keyboard Arrows: Use the Up and Down arrow keys to move focus between different articles or sections on the page.

Navigation

If you are browsing EUR-lex, and wish to go to the Lex-Ray version of the page, you can just change the e at the start of europa.eu to a 3. Lex-Ray will display the marked up version of the document.
Example:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj becomes
https://eur-lex.3uropa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj

You can also add a 'one and a zero' (10) in front of the europa.eu ('make it digital') to get the same result:

Example:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/ojbecomes
https://eur-lex.10europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj

Background Processing:

When you request legislation, Lex-Ray may process it in the background. You'll see real-time updates on the progress. Processing involves fetching, parsing, finding dependencies, marking definitions, and rendering the final view.

Legislation is periodically checked and reprocessed if the underlying source or the Lex-Ray processing logic has been updated.