# legislationDate - Schema.org Property

> Source: https://schema.org/legislationDate
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T18:48:24.268Z

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A Schema.org Property

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-   Canonical URL: https://schema.org/legislationDate
-   Equivalent Property: eli:date\_document
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The date of adoption or signature of the legislation. This is the date at which the text is officially aknowledged to be a legislation, even though it might not even be published or in force.

### Values expected to be one of these types

`-   [Date](https://schema.org/Date "Date")`

### 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)