output

CANARY Output

This folder contains real extraction output from CANARY — not synthetic examples. It holds 487 compliance objectives extracted from 13 regulations across 5 jurisdictions, with 431 of 487 citations (89%) mechanically verified against the published source text.

Folder Layout

output/
└── compliance/
    └── objectives/
        ├── sfdr-l1/              # One folder per regulation
        │   ├── README.md         # Regulation index (verification stats, obligation table)
        │   ├── article-3-1.md    # One file per compliance objective
        │   ├── article-4-1.md
        │   └── ...
        ├── sfdr-rts/
        ├── eu-taxonomy/
        └── ...                   # 13 regulation folders total

Report Types

Compliance Objective (compliance-objective)

Each file represents a single regulatory obligation at the article level.

What it tells you: Who must comply, what they must do, where the obligation applies, by when, and how material it is. Every note includes a verbatim quote from the regulation, mechanically checked against the published text.

Why it matters: Instead of reading a 40-page regulation to find the obligations relevant to your firm, you get one self-contained file per obligation with structured fields you can filter and triage.

How to verify manually:

1. Open any objective file (e.g., sfdr-l1/article-8-1.md)
2. Scroll to the Legal Basis section and read the quoted text
3. Check the tag at the end of the quote: [verified] or [unverified]
4. Open the source_url link in your browser
5. Search for the quoted text in the regulation — if the tag says [verified], the quote was found verbatim

Example: compliance/objectives/sfdr-l1/article-8-1.md

Regulation Index (regulation-index)

A README in each regulation folder that acts as a table of contents with verification statistics.

What it tells you: How many obligations were extracted from this regulation, how many citations are verified, and a breakdown by obligation type and materiality level. Each row links to the relevant objective, and unverified rows are flagged for human review.

Why it matters: Gives you at-a-glance coverage — you can immediately see which regulations have full citation coverage and which have gaps that need manual review.

How to verify manually:

1. Open a regulation README (e.g., uk-fsa-2023/README.md)
2. Check the verified/total count at the top
3. Scan the obligations table — any row marked UNVERIFIED should receive manual review
4. Click into an individual objective to spot-check the citation

Example: compliance/objectives/uk-fsa-2023/README.md

Change Report (regulatory-change)

Generated when CANARY detects that a regulation has been amended on EUR-Lex.

What it tells you: The severity of the change, which articles are affected, supporting quotes with verification status, and a unique run ID for audit purposes.

Why it matters: This is the core monitoring output — the reason CANARY exists. When a regulation changes, you get a structured report instead of discovering the change weeks later during a manual review. The deterministic detection (SHA-256 hash comparison) means no changes are missed.

How to verify manually:

1. Check the severity and affects fields in the frontmatter
2. Read the supporting quotes in the Changes section
3. Check each quote's [verified] or [UNVERIFIED] tag
4. Open the source_url to confirm the change against the published text
5. Use the canary_run_id to trace the detection back to a specific pipeline run

Current status: No change reports have been generated yet. All 13 monitored regulations have remained unchanged since monitoring began. When a regulation is amended, the change report will appear alongside the compliance objectives.

Reading the Frontmatter

Every output file starts with YAML frontmatter. Here are the key fields:

Field	Meaning
type	What kind of file this is: compliance-objective, regulation-index, or regulatory-change
regulation	Full name of the regulation
article	The specific article or section this obligation comes from
obligation_type	Category of obligation: disclosure, governance, process, or reporting
materiality	How significant: high, medium, or low
citation	Whether the verbatim quote was found in the source text: verified or unverified
source_url	Direct link to the regulation on EUR-Lex or the relevant legislative database
canary_run_id	Unique identifier tying this output to a specific pipeline run (audit trail)

Trust Model

Every citation is checked with a deterministic substring match against the published regulation text, with Unicode normalization and whitespace collapsing. This is not a confidence score or an AI judgment — it is a mechanical pass/fail check.

• [verified] = the exact quote was found in the source text. You can confirm this yourself by opening the source_url and searching for the quoted text.
• [unverified] = the quote was not found verbatim. This warrants human review — it may be a paraphrase, a truncation, or from a different consolidation of the regulation.

Current rate: 431/487 (89%) verified. See the main README for the full technical explanation.

Coverage

Regulation	Folder	Objectives	Verified	Index
SFDR Level 1	sfdr-l1/	35	34	--
SFDR RTS	sfdr-rts/	112	100	--
SFDR 2.0 Proposal	sfdr-2-proposal/	123	88	--
EU Taxonomy	eu-taxonomy/	54	54	--
MiFID II Sustainability	mifid-sustainability/	44	43	--
UK FSA 2023	uk-fsa-2023/	5	5	README
UK TCFD Regs 2022	uk-tcfd-regs/	10	10	README
UK SDR Regs 2023	uk-sdr-regs/	10	10	README
UK Climate Change Act	uk-climate-change/	10	10	README
UK Environment Act	uk-env-act/	10	6	README
US Sarbanes-Oxley	us-sox/	44	41	README
NZ FMC Act 2013	nz-fmc-act/	20	20	README
Irish Companies Act	ie-companies-act/	10	10	README
Total		487	431 (89%)