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What Is Included in Regulatory Universal Timelines

Know exactly what the merged viewer includes today before you rely on it in planning or reporting.

Coverage is driven by local timeline files in the artifacts catalog. If a source timeline is not present there, it is not present here.

The current build auto-merges every local file in the artifacts data directory that ends with -timeline.json. That means the universal timeline is comprehensive only within that local source set. It is not a live crawler and it does not infer timelines for artifacts that do not ship with timeline data.

Current source timeline coverage

As of the current build, the viewer merges 38 local source timelines and 1297 dated events. The source timelines currently span APAC, EU, LATAM, UK, and US artifacts.

The current merged source set includes the following local timeline datasets.

APAC: Australia Cyber Security Act and Singapore PDPA
LATAM: Brazil LGPD
UK: UK GDPR, UK Online Safety Act, and UK PSTI
US: CCPA and CPRA
EU: Accessibility Act, AI Act, Batteries Regulation, CRA, CSDDD, CSRD, Data Act, DDP, Deforestation Regulation, DMA, DORA, DSA, EED, eIDAS, EMC Directive, ePrivacy, ESPR DPP, ESPR, GDPR, GPSR, Green Claims, LVD, Machinery Regulation, MDR, MSR, NIS2, PPWR, RED, RoHS, and Taxonomy Regulation

What each event record can contain

The merged viewer uses a consistent event model. Every event has a date, category, title, summary, and milestone flag. Events can also include an end date, article reference, and source URL.

Those fields are what let the viewer support both quick visual scanning and deeper event inspection when a team needs traceability.

date: the event start or single day marker
endDate: optional end date for a transition or reporting window
category: the namespaced category used for filtering
title: the normalized event title shown in the merged view
article: optional article or context field shown with source label prefix
summary: short explanatory text used in event detail
url: optional source link for direct reference
milestone: boolean marker used to distinguish milestone style events

How labels are normalized in the merged view

The builder preserves source separation but normalizes some labels for readability. It gives explicit stable labels to selected frameworks such as EU DORA, EU NIS2, EU CRA, EU Data Act, and Australia.

Other source timelines use an uppercase label derived from the local source key. This is why some labels appear as formal framework names while others appear as stable source identifiers.

Categories are namespaced per source timeline before they are shown as filter chips
Event titles are prefixed with the source label unless they already begin with it
The article field is also prefixed with the source label to keep context visible in the merged detail panel
Closely related source timelines may appear separately if they are maintained as separate local datasets

Known operating limits

The universal timeline is a strong planning and coordination view, but it does not replace legal analysis or program management tooling.

Teams should understand those limits before using the viewer as a formal control in governance routines.

The viewer does not determine whether a framework applies to your entity
The viewer does not assign owners, tasks, or evidence packages for you
The viewer supports PNG export, not CSV or ICS export in the shipped user flow
High impact dates should still be validated against the official source link or legal text before external commitment

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