# legislationApplies - Schema.org Property

> Source: https://schema.org/legislationApplies
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T18:48:21.261Z

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-   Canonical URL: https://schema.org/legislationApplies
-   Equivalent Property: eli:implements
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Indicates that this legislation (or part of a legislation) somehow transfers another legislation in a different legislative context. This is an informative link, and it has no legal value. For legally-binding links of transposition, use the [legislationTransposes](https://schema.org/legislationTransposes) property. For example an informative consolidated law of a European Union's member state "applies" the consolidated version of the European Directive implemented in it.

#### Sub-properties

-   [legislationEnsuresImplementationOf](https://schema.org/legislationEnsuresImplementationOf "legislationEnsuresImplementationOf")
-   [legislationTransposes](https://schema.org/legislationTransposes "legislationTransposes")

### Acknowledgements

This entry is derived from the [ELI ontology](http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/eli/index.html) (European Legislation Identifier). ELI is an initiative of some national legislation publishers endorsed by EU countries and Institutions, to identify, describe and link legislation on the web, and is led by the [ELI taskforce](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli-register/about.html).

#### Source

[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/model/-/resource/dataset/eli](https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/model/-/resource/dataset/eli)

[https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1156](https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1156)