About EU or Not

EU or Not tracks the rules that decide whether a parcel, a product or a business model is allowed into the European Union — and what it costs when it is.

The scope is deliberately narrow: cross-border commerce. Customs reform and the EU Customs Data Hub, de minimis and low-value imports, VAT and IOSS, extended producer responsibility, packaging, product compliance and market surveillance.

How this is sourced

Primary sources first. The Official Journal for legal text, DG TAXUD and the Council for procedure and dates. Where an article relies on secondary reporting or on a rule still in trilogue, it says so in the text and lists the source at the bottom.

Every article carries a Sources block and a date. When facts change — and in this area they change often — the article is updated and the change is noted rather than silently overwritten.

This is journalism about regulation, not legal advice. Filing obligations depend on your goods, your flows and your establishment. Verify against the legal text before you act.

For machines

The site is built for retrieval as well as reading:

Every article has a Markdown twin at the same URL with index.md appended.
/llms.txt indexes the site for language models.
/llms-full.txt contains the full corpus in one file.
/feed.xml is the RSS feed; /sitemap.xml the sitemap.
Articles carry NewsArticle JSON-LD with dates, topics and licence.

Crawling for search and for AI answers is permitted. Text is licensed CC BY 4.0 — reuse it, cite euornot.eu and link back.

Contact

Corrections and tips: hello@euornot.eu. Corrections get priority; if something here is wrong, it gets fixed and dated.