Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez,
Public.Resource.Org today released 10,062 public safety documents covering 24 countries and 6 regions, including the European Union. The release is documented in a README file and accompanied by 12 tables of supporting documentation.
Some of these standards were obtained directly from the web sites of national standards bodies, such as Ecuador and Thailand which make their standards freely available. A couple thousand were scraped from the World Trade Organization web site, which maintains a repository of mandatory notifications made by member countries. We spent $180,410.73 to obtain the rest of the documents, such as the mandatory building code of Europe, the Eurocode.
These standards were published in order to promote public education and public safety,
equal justice for all, a better informed citizenry, the rule of law, world trade and world peace, this legal document is hereby made
available on a noncommercial basis, as it is the right of all humans to know and speak the laws that govern them.This law is your law. Enjoy!
(Thanks, Carl!)