About mcp-eu-sparql
An MCP server for searching EU legislation, Court of Justice case law, and national data-protection authority decisions. It queries the Publications Office SPARQL endpoint and GDPRhub live, with citation metadata in responses.
Key features
- 01Search acts by CELEX or date range
- 02Search CJEU cases by query or ECLI
- 03Search GDPRhub decisions and commentary
- 04Return structured legal citations
Use cases
- 01Find an EU act by its CELEX number
- 02Search CJEU opinions within a date range
- 03Look up national data-protection decisions
- 04Provide citations for legal research
MCP support
Exposes five search tools to MCP clients over stdio. Responses include structured citations with identifiers, dates, URLs, and snippets where available.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
5Saved tool list · updated 2w ago
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| lang | enum | No | ISO 639-3 language code for the title (POL/ENG/FRA/DEU). Defaults to POL.POL | ENG | FRA | DEU |
| celex | string | Yes | CELEX number, e.g. '32016R0679' (GDPR). |
Details
From the project READMEmcp-eu-sparql
Installation (one command)
Published on npm + the MCP Registry (io.github.matematicsolutions/mcp-eu-sparql). Run without cloning:
npx -y @matematicsolutions/mcp-eu-sparql
MCP client configuration (stdio):
{ "mcpServers": { "mcp-eu-sparql": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@matematicsolutions/mcp-eu-sparql"] } } }
(Building from source - below.)
MCP server for EU law and CJEU case law via the Publications Office SPARQL endpoint (Cellar / EUR-Lex), plus national data-protection authority decisions via GDPRhub.
CJEU corpus in Cellar (SPARQL COUNT, 2026-07-08): 34,261 judgments (JUDG), 8,362 orders (ORDER), 14,480 Advocate-General opinions (OPIN_AG) - 57,103 judgments and opinions in total, each with CELEX + ECLI.
Tools
search_by_celex(celex, lang?)- act or judgment by CELEX number (e.g.32016R0679= GDPR,62018CJ0311= Schrems II).search_by_date_range(date_from, date_to, document_type?, lang?, limit?)- acts within a date range, optionally narrowed to a type (REG / DIR / DEC / RECO / OPIN).
search_cjeu(query?, date_from?, date_to?, document_type?, lang?, limit?)- judgments (JUDG), orders (ORDER) and Advocate-General opinions (OPIN_AG) of the Court of Justice of the EU; optional keyword in the title (parties to the case, case number, keywords of the judgment).search_cjeu_by_ecli(ecli, lang?)- CJEU judgment by ECLI identifier (e.g.ECLI:EU:C:2020:559= Schrems II).search_gdprhub(query, limit?)- full-text search in GDPRhub (the noyb project wiki): decisions of national data-protection authorities across the EU + commentary on GDPR articles. Content license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 - flagged in thelicensefield of every citation.
Every response includes structuredContent.citations with the fields title, url,
celex?, ecli?, publication_date?, document_type?, snippet?, license? -
Patron reads this field and renders it in the UI panel as the "EU legal acts (EUR-Lex / CJEU)" section.
Stack
- Node 18+
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk- Stdio transport (like
mcp-saos) - Backend: HTTP POST to
https://publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparqlwithformat=application/sparql-results+json; GET tohttps://gdprhub.eu/api.php(MediaWiki API)
Build + run
npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js # starts the server on stdio
Wiring into Patron
In patron/backend/mcp-servers.json:
[
{
"name": "saos",
"transport": "stdio",
"command": "node",
"args": ["C:/Users/<YOUR-USER>/mcp-saos/dist/index.js"]
},
{
"name": "eu-sparql",
"transport": "stdio",
"command": "node",
"args": ["C:/Users/<YOUR-USER>/mcp-eu-sparql/dist/index.js"]
}
]
Tests
npm run drift # offline: INSTRUCTIONS consistent with TOOLS and ErrorCode
npm run test:offline # offline: query builders + parsers on fixtures (no network)
npm run smoke # live: all 5 tools against Cellar + GDPRhub
License
MIT.
Part of MateMatic
This connector queries its source live. It is one of the Polish and EU source connectors bundled in PATRON and works with any MCP client.
- Poland, one server for all sources: prawo-pl-mcp · each source on its own: mcp-saos · mcp-nsa · mcp-isap · mcp-krs · mcp-eureka · kio-orzeczenia-mcp
- European Union: mcp-eu-sparql (this repo) (live) · mcp-eu-compliance (offline corpus)
- A prepared corpus of Polish and EU law with a citation graph: Repertorium
mcp-saos, mcp-nsa, mcp-isap, mcp-krs and mcp-eu-sparql share one structuredContent.citations
contract: each tool returns an array of {title, url, snippet?, ...metadata}
that legal agents can render directly in their citation panel.
See matematicsolutions/.github for the full org profile.
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