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What this is

An open-source draft EU Regulation ensuring that citizens of the Union participate in the capital value created by hyper-automated production, prepared as the basis for a possible European Citizens' Initiative. The legal text, its memorandum, its objections and every review verdict live in a public repository; this site renders them.

Not an EU document

This is a citizens' proposal. It is not published by, endorsed by, affiliated with or reviewed by the European Union, the European Commission, the European Parliament or any other Union institution, body, office or agency. It has no legal force. It is drafted in the conventions of Union legislation because a proposal meant to be assessed by those institutions should arrive in the form they read; the form is a courtesy to the reader, never a claim of authority. The site carries no EU emblem, and the seal it does carry belongs to this project alone.

Who

Initiated by David Vanheeswijck (Belgium). The drafting method uses adversarial AI review under the editor's responsibility; every verdict and disposition is on the ledger. An organisers' group of at least seven citizens from seven Member States will be constituted if the project passes its own gates.

Declared interest

The draft grew out of a book by its initiator. The campaign never links to the book, takes nothing from its sales, and stands on its own legal text: every argument here can be checked without buying anything.

The gates

The campaign proceeds only through published gates with kill criteria: registrability soundings before constitution, constitution before filing, filing before collection. If a gate fails, this page will say so and the repository stays up as a public good.

Funding

None. When any exists, it will be published here to the cent, as Regulation (EU) 2019/788 requires of initiatives and we require of ourselves early.

Your data

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics scripts and loads nothing from third parties. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.

What is nonetheless processed, stated plainly rather than claimed away: any server that answers a request sees the address it came from, so the host keeps short-lived technical logs, including IP addresses, to deliver the pages and to defend against abuse. That is the whole of it; those logs are not read for any other purpose, are not combined with anything, are not sold and are not shared. If you switch this site between paper and plate, that choice is written into your own browser's storage and never leaves it.

Anyone in the Union may ask what is held about them, and may complain to a supervisory authority; in Belgium that is the Data Protection Authority. When signing opens, it happens on the European Commission's own collection system under Regulation (EU) 2019/788, not here.

Where this site lives

The pages you are reading are stored in Scaleway Object Storage in the Paris region and served from Scaleway's own network. Scaleway is a French company; the files, the cache and the certificate are European.

Two parts are not, and a campaign about European ownership should say which: the domain's DNS is answered by Cloudflare, a United States company, though no page content passes through it, and the source repository is hosted on GitHub, also American. The one exception in the serving path is www.ownthemachine.eu, which is a redirect to this site and carries no content of its own.

Nothing here depends on any of that remaining true. The site is a static build of a public repository: it can be rebuilt and served from anywhere, by anyone, in minutes.

Accessibility

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