eurlex_search_documents

MCP tool from Eur Lex MCP Server by cyanheads

Search EU legislation, treaties, and preparatory acts across the CELLAR corpus. Filters by document type, date range, EuroVoc concept, author institution, and in-force status.

How to use it

eurlex_search_documents is exposed by the Eur Lex MCP Server MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the eurlex_search_documents tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Eur Lex MCP Server

$docker run --rm -p 3010:3010 eur-lex-mcp-server

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Other tools in Eur Lex MCP Server (6)

eurlex_browse_subjects

Search the EuroVoc multilingual thesaurus to resolve human-readable terms to EuroVoc concept IDs — required before using the eurovocconcept filter in eurlexsearchdocuments.

eurlex_get_cases

Search CJEU and General Court case law — judgments, orders, and Advocate General opinions — by case number, party name, subject, or date range.

eurlex_get_document

Fetch structured metadata and full text (HTML, Markdown, or Formex4 XML) for a work by CELEX number or ELI URI.

eurlex_get_relations

Traverse the CELLAR relationship graph: amendment chain, consolidated versions, legal basis, citation network, and national transposition measures.

eurlex_lookup_celex

Resolve an EU legal citation — a CELEX number or an ELI URI — to the canonical CELLAR work.

eurlex_query_sparql

Execute a raw SPARQL SELECT query against the CELLAR Virtuoso endpoint. Results capped at 100; use only when curated tools don't cover the needed CDM ontology traversal.