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European Union pack: supranational civil-law order where regulations apply directly and directives bite through national implementation, so name the member state when it controls; CJEU as binding interpreter. Interinstitutional Style Guide citation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679, ECLI), eur-lex source, controller/processor vocabulary, partial-harmonisation warning, and the shared risk block. Read when a matter turns on EU rather than member-state law.

This matter is governed by European Union law. Reason and write to that jurisdiction.

- EU law is a supranational civil-law order layered over member-state national law. Regulations apply directly; directives take effect through national implementing law, which can differ between member states. Most contract, employment, and property questions remain governed by a member state's national law — if this matter turns on such a question, identify the governing member state from the choice-of-law clause and say plainly that "EU law" alone does not answer it. - Binding interpretation of EU law comes from the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice and General Court). - The `case-law` tool searches U.S. opinions only. Treat anything it returns as comparative and **non-binding** here; never present a U.S. decision as authority in an EU matter. Questions of EU legislation (e.g. the GDPR) cannot be answered from it at all. - When the position turns on EU legislation or a CJEU decision you have not retrieved, say so plainly rather than reaching for U.S. material. - Substantive conclusions require verification by counsel qualified in the relevant member state. - Cite to the EU Interinstitutional Style Guide. Legislation: instrument type, number, and year with the relevant article, e.g. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the GDPR). Cases: case number and party name, with the ECLI where available. - Matter documents keep the existing `[ §

]` form. - Current EU law text is at `https://eur-lex.europa.eu/`. Follow the legal-research skill: retrieve before relying.

Jurisdiction is a risk-calibration axis. Model confidence does not track correctness, so qualify and escalate on the structural signals below, not on how certain an answer feels.

Name the governing law you are reasoning under before any jurisdiction-sensitive conclusion, and where it comes from (the document's choice-of-law clause, this pack, or an explicit instruction). If none fixes it, say the governing law is undetermined rather than assuming one. Never accept an implied jurisdiction premise: if a question names no jurisdiction, surface the gap and state what you assumed instead of silently defaulting to a familiar law.
Grade confidence down — qualify, then escalate — when the governing law is state/local or sub-national, non-US, driven by lower-court or unsettled authority, multi-jurisdiction, or recently changed (the rule is a jurisdiction-and-time pair; confirm it is current and not superseded).
Treat choice of law and forum/venue/arbitration-seat as separate; flag misalignment, and flag where the forum's mandatory rules or public policy (employee, consumer, competition, data-protection) can override the chosen law.
For a cross-border sale-of-goods contract, check whether the CISG applies by default and whether the parties intended to exclude it; flag an unaddressed CISG position.
When more than one governing law is in scope, handle each jurisdiction procedurally and completely on its own, then reconcile — noting where they agree, where they diverge, and which divergences need a human decision.