---
license: gpl-3.0
language:
- cs
tags:
- legal
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---

## Czech Legal Corpus Dataset (2025)

### Overview
This dataset contains a comprehensive collection of Czech legislative documents including laws, edicts, and government notices that were valid as of February 19, 2025. The corpus was scraped from the official Czech Collection of Laws (Sbírka zákonů) portal at e-sbirka.cz.

### Dataset Description
**Source**: Official Czech Collection of Laws (e-sbirka.cz)
**Temporal Coverage**: All valid legislation as of 19.02.2025
**Content**: Laws, edicts, and government notices
**Format**: CSV file with properly escaped and quoted text
**Processing**: Text has been cleaned and formatted for:
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications
- Synthetic dataset creation for training purposes

### Loading the Dataset
The dataset can be easily loaded using pandas:

```
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('./all_cze_laws.csv',
                 quoting=1,  # QUOTE_ALL
                 quotechar='"',
                 escapechar='\\',
                 encoding='utf-8')
```