endomorphosis/ipfs_denmark_municipal_laws

denmark_municipal — Danish municipal waste regulations (affaldsregulativer)

196 regulativer / 5048 article records from 98 kommuner: one Regulativ for husholdningsaffald and one Regulativ for erhvervsaffald per kommune (husholdning: 98, erhverv: 98). 188 rows are NSTAR texts, 7 are kommune-website PDFs that replace stale NSTAR rows, and 1 (Læsø erhverv) comes from an archived kommune PDF because NSTAR cannot serve it (188 + 7 + 1 = 196). law_status: in_force 190, superseded 3, unverified_current 3.

Sources

• NSTAR (nstar.ens.dk), Energistyrelsen's national register of municipal waste regulations. Under BEK nr. 938 af 2022 (affaldsaktørbekendtgørelsen) § 3, stk. 4, kommuner have to report adopted regulativer to NSTAR, and a regulativ is valid only once published there. The public status page lists the last regulativ each kommune reported per type, with a PDF download (ASP.NET postback, read-only). nstar.ens.dk has no robots.txt (404). Requests were spaced 1.5 s apart in one session. NSTAR is not guaranteed to be current for every kommune. Some kommuner adopted newer regulativer and never reported them, so the row NSTAR shows can be years old (see Currency check).
• Kommune websites (scrapers/collect_dk_kommune_pdfs.py): born-digital regulativ PDFs from the kommune's own site, used where the NSTAR row was found stale. robots.txt was respected and requests were spaced 1.5 s apart. Scans, Paper Capture and OCR'd PDFs are rejected (no OCR).
• Text comes from pdftotext -layout, streamed: no PDF is kept. The pdf_sha256, bytes, pages and producer are recorded per row in metadata_json.extras.
• extras.pdf_filename is the filename NSTAR sends in its Content-Disposition header (UTF-8). requests reads header values as latin-1, so 56 names came out as mojibake ('København'); they are reversed by a latin-1 → UTF-8 round-trip, only where that is clean (MANIFEST build_stats.pdf_filename_mojibake_fixed). No other text or metadata field had mojibake.
• Kommunekoder (3-digit) come from Danmarks Statistik's StatBank API (FOLK1A, OMRÅDE values); the region (admin1) follows the same list.
• License: Danish municipal affaldsregulativer are administrative regulations (administrative forskrifter) issued under miljøbeskyttelsesloven. Under ophavsretsloven (LBK 2023/1093) § 9, stk. 1, laws, administrative regulations and similar public documents are not subject to copyright. Separate works reproduced in them (e.g. maps, photos in bilag) may keep their protection (§ 9, stk. 2).

Currency check (checked 2026-10-17)

All 26 NSTAR rows approved before 2021 were checked by hand on the kommune websites. The outcome per row is in extras.currency_check; there is a summary in MANIFEST currency_check.

• Replaced (7) by the kommune's newer born-digital PDF (source_url = the kommune PDF; the stale NSTAR id is kept in extras.replaces_nstar): Gribskov husholdning + erhverv (2023-09-05; the husholdning PDF title metadata says "Forslag", but the text is the adopted version, vedtaget 05-09-2023), Halsnæs husholdning + erhverv (2023-06-22), Aabenraa husholdning (vedtaget 2025-12-03, i kraft 2026-01-01), Aabenraa erhverv (i kraft 2023-01-01; the PDF title metadata says "Udkast", but the text is the adopted version linked by the kommune), and Dragør erhverv (vedtaget 2023-06-22, i kraft 2023-07-01).
• Superseded (3): the NSTAR text is kept with law_status = superseded and extras.superseded_by linking the newer regulativ. Its text could not be fetched politely: Høje-Taastrup husholdning (NSTAR 312, from 2011; htk.dk returns 403 to the collector and there is no archive copy), Ishøj husholdning (NSTAR 1691; newer regulativer from 2022/2023, ishoj.dk returns 403) and Svendborg erhverv (NSTAR 1747; updated May 2024, but the PDF link is rendered by script).
• Current (14): the kommune site still points to the same regulativ (in_force, with evidence in currency_check). These are Ballerup erhverv, Brønderslev husholdning, Faaborg-Midtfyn erhverv, Fanø, Frederikssund, Furesø, Glostrup, Høje-Taastrup erhverv, Jammerbugt, Lejre, Odsherred, Rebild, Solrød and Vallensbæk.
• Unverified (2): Frederikshavn erhverv and Ishøj erhverv. No newer regulativ was found, and the site could not confirm the current one (law_status = unverified_current).
• Rows approved in 2021 or later were not individually checked.

Læsø erhverv (NSTAR id 3126)

The NSTAR PDF render fails on the server: HTTP 200 with a 134-byte HttpUnhandledException page after about 183 s. It failed twice when retried politely on 2026-10-17, and laesoe.dk returns 403 to the collector. The row dk-mun-825-erhverv-2021-01-01 is therefore built from a Wayback Machine replay (2025-08-09) of the kommune's own "Regulativ for erhvervsaffald 2025" PDF (born-digital; extras.original_url holds the laesoe.dk URL). Its text reads vedtaget 30-11-2020, i kraft 01-01-2021. It may not be the latest: NSTAR 3126 is newer and laesoe.dk now lists a "...2026" PDF. So law_status = unverified_current and extras.may_not_be_latest = true.

Ids

NSTAR rows: dk-mun-<3-digit kommunekode>-<NSTAR regulativ database id> (schema.municipal_law_id), e.g. dk-mun-165-2933 (Albertslund, NSTAR 2933). Kommune-PDF rows: dk-mun-<kode>-<husholdning|erhverv>-<ikrafttrædelse YYYY-MM-DD>, e.g. dk-mun-270-husholdning-2023-09-05. Articles are <law id>-art-<label>. Labels are 0 (preamble: title, effective date, indholdsfortegnelse), 1…n (§; its §N.N sub-sections stay inside) and bilag-N.

Section splitting

A § record starts only at a heading line (§N Title / § N. Title) that is followed by its own text, i.e. its own §N.1. Headings matching the contents get priority. Cross-references and list lines that begin with "§N" do not start a section. A heading that has only a weak follow is replaced by a later strong heading with the same number and title (2 cases). This fixed the earlier mis-splits: Vejen erhverv (dk-mun-575-2990) §13 (now starts at the real heading, law offset 15,964), Kalundborg §13, Odder and Skanderborg §18, and Gladsaxe (the false §18 "tekstil" stub is gone; it now ends at §17–§18 with no §19). The genuine extra §§ in Greve, København and Vordingborg are unchanged, and Kolding is unchanged. Contents vs. § chain mismatches: 6. These are real §§ beyond the contents or wrapped contents lines, listed in MANIFEST build_dropped.toc_mismatch_info.

Records

preamble: 196, article: 4675, schedule: 177. Laws without a § chain: 0. Heading-only records: 16, flagged heading_only in the article metadata_json and all named in MANIFEST heading_only_records: Faaborg-Midtfyn husholdning (dk-mun-430-3073) bilag 1–4 (listed but not in the NSTAR text), and paradigm sections left empty: "§28 Øvrige ordninger" in dk-mun-563-2663, 159-2605, 223-3031, 259-3066, 825-3125, 306-2918, 175-2822, 269-3104 and 479-2692; "§27 Øvrige ordninger" in 336-3024 and 492-2446; and "§17 Ordning for [...]" in 185-2668. Amendment: Egedal husholdning (dk-mun-240-2916) bilag-2 is a Tillæg (in force 01-07-2024) with its own §1ff. It is flagged amendment: true (article metadata) and extras.has_amendment (law row).

Scope decisions

• Included: affaldsregulativer (husholdning + erhverv), one per type per kommune (see Currency check).
• Lokalplaner: excluded. These are zoning plans under planloven: binding land-use plans for defined areas, not general regulations of conduct (distributed via Plandata.dk).
• Retsinformation: not used. It carries state law only and has no kommunale regulativer or forskrifter.
• Coverage gap: no national source. Spildevand (betalingsvedtægter / spildevandsplaner), regulativ for jordflytning, politivedtægter / ordensreglementer and vandløbsregulativer are not in this pack. No national bulk or API source exists for them; they live only on individual kommune (or forsyning) websites and would need a per-kommune crawler. Affaldsplaner and takstblade are plans and price lists, not regulations.
• Hub check: world_municipal_law has 0 DK rows; ipfs_denmark_laws is national law only. This pack adds data and replaces nothing.

Text cleaning

59 'N/M' page-counter lines on their own line were removed (Gribskov erhverv '2/20' … '20/20', 19; Gribskov husholdning '2/41' … '41/41', 40). A line counts as a page counter only when the document has at least 3 such lines with one total M and N ≤ M, so a lone fraction such as '1/2' is kept. 187 bare page-number lines (a line that is only the page number, in 24 laws, e.g. Aabenraa husholdning 37 and erhverv 23) were removed. A line that is only 1–3 digits counts as a page number when it is the first or last line of its pdftotext page (ignoring "Side N" footers), or the second / second-to-last line when it continues a +1 page run (appendices with their own numbering). 6 mid-page lone numbers are content and are kept: Hørsholm husholdning dk-mun-223-3031 wrapped contents page references 5, 6, 9; Rebild erhverv dk-mun-840-1882 figure markers 1, 2; Svendborg husholdning dk-mun-479-2692 "4". 8696 "Side N" page-footer lines and 20 "N af M" / "DD-MM-YYYY … N af M" page-footer lines were removed (17 in Halsnæs erhverv, 3 in dk-mun-161-2856). 468 EO.Pdf trial-version watermark strings were removed (generator artefact), and 6 page-1 "Gældende fra d." lines interleaved with the watermark were repaired. Symbol-font private-use bullets were mapped (U+F0B7->•: 481, U+F0BE->–: 5). Lines are stripped, blank-line runs are collapsed, and the text is NFC. Each law's text equals the newline-join of its article records.

Excluded image-only PDFs

0 (non-whitespace characters per page < 200; no OCR). See MANIFEST excluded_image_only_pdfs. Download errors: 0 open. The Læsø erhverv error is resolved via the kommune PDF (MANIFEST build_dropped.download_error_resolved).

Files

• data/laws.parquet, data/articles.parquet (pinned schemas; validate_municipal_table = [])
• scrapers/collect_dk_nstar.py (NSTAR collector), scrapers/collect_dk_kommune_pdfs.py (currency-check table + kommune PDF collector), scrapers/build_dk_municipal.py (offline build), scrapers/schema.py
• MANIFEST.json (sha256 of all files except MANIFEST/README/HANDOFF_READY)

Rebuild: python scrapers/collect_dk_nstar.py dk_build && python scrapers/collect_dk_kommune_pdfs.py dk_build && python scrapers/build_dk_municipal.py dk_build denmark_municipal