policy_areas: Data on policy areas
In jfjelstul/ecio: The European Commission Internal Organization (ECIO) Database

This dataset includes data on policy areas covered by departments of the Commission (1958-2021). There is one observation per policy area. EUR-Lex, the Commission's official database of EU legal documents, sorts documents based on a case law directory and a directory of legal acts. There is a pre-Lisbon and post-Lisbon version of the case law directory. The dataset indicates the directory codes that correspond to each policy area according to each of these classification schemes.

1	policy_areas

A data frame with 6 variables:

key_id: numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each observation. Indicates the default sort order for the dataset.
policy_area_id: numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each policy area. See the policy_areas dataset.
policy_area: string. The name of the policy area. See the policy_areas dataset.
case_law_old: string. A list of the codes from the pre-Lisbon version of EUR-Lex's Case Law Directory that apply to the policy area.
case_law_new: string. A list of the codes from the post-Lisbon version of EUR-Lex's Case Law Directory that apply to the policy area.
legislation: string. A list of the codes from EUR-Lex's Directory of Legal Acts that apply to the policy area.