We would like to inform you of changes to the structure of the Corporate Body authority table, which has now been modified in June publication to make it easier to handle changes in labels and information linked to a specific body (identified by the same URI). The URI of the current concept remains identical. Old labels are now  attached to a ‘historical’ concept, which is itself linked to the current concept via the dct:replaces/dct:isReplacedBy properties.

This ‘historical’ concept has a start date and an end date, corresponding to the validity dates of the labels, and are, by default, deprecated.

The structure of the URI of historical concepts is based on that of the current concept, followed by the year of the start of validity and a number, as shown in the following examples:

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/corporate-body/COM

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/corporate-body/COM_1967_0

These changes will be available online from the 24th of June 2025, and will be visible on the EU Vocabularies site from this time.