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# How Ruler's content is produced

Which sources Ruler monitors, how often, how the editorial team reviews them, and how quality and completeness are safeguarded.

Everything that reaches you in Ruler, from an alert in your Inbox to a radar item or a topic summary, has gone through the same two steps: an automated scraper collected it from the source, and an editor read it, assessed it and decided whether and how to publish it. Nothing is published without that human step.

## Sources

Ruler monitors Dutch, Belgian and European sources of law, regulation, supervisory guidance and case law. They include, among others, the AFM, DNB, the ECB and the European Commission.

Ruler does not limit itself to primary legislation. Secondary sources, guidance documents and publications by supervisors are collected and assessed as well.

The complete list of sources, and of the publication types Ruler alerts on, is set out in the **Ruler alerting policy**. The policy also explains which sources Ruler deliberately does not alert on, and why. The current version is always available on the Ruler website: [Alerting policy (Alerteringsbeleid) for NL, BE and EU](https://ruler.nl/app/uploads/2026/08/20260615-Alerteringsbeleid-Ruler-NLBEEU.pdf).

Inside the application, [Sources](/sources.md) shows you every law, regulation, news item and ruling Ruler has collected, including material the editors did not consider relevant to your organisation. The source filter there doubles as the list of sources Ruler follows.

## How often sources are checked

| What                                  | Frequency                               |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| Scrapers for laws and regulations     | Every six hours                         |
| Scrapers for news and publications    | Every two hours between 07:00 and 19:00 |
| Editorial review of collected content | Daily                                   |

The editors assess what the scrapers have collected each day, and process and publish what is relevant.

## Everything is traceable to its source

Every alert, radar item, consultation and Signalling item in Ruler is linked to the original publication it is based on. On an [alert](/inbox/reading-an-alert.md) you see the linked source document with its publication date and source, and the editor's note explains where the change lands in Ruler. If a scraper collects new guidelines from the EBA, for example, the editors state in the alert that the EBA published them and on which date.

Ruler does not use a separate field or label to distinguish legislation from interpretation, guidance or recommendations. You can read the distinction from the title, the summary and the editor's note: together they make clear whether an alert concerns new or amended legislation, guidance or recommendations, or informative content that introduces no new standards or interpretations.

## How quality is safeguarded

Full coverage of the agreed sources is one of Ruler's main quality criteria. The controls behind it:

* **Human review of everything.** An editor checks all content before it is published in Ruler.
* **Link testing.** Ruler periodically tests whether the links to sources still work, and repairs them where they do not.
* **Quarterly completeness check.** Every quarter, Ruler measures against its SLA commitments whether the monitored sources are still complete and current.
* **Transparency on sources.** Customers can see in Ruler which sources are consulted.
* **Missing sources can be reported.** If you believe a relevant source is missing, report it. The editorial team assesses every request. If the source falls within the agreed scope, it is added and monitored structurally through a new scraper.

## What happens when a source is added

When a new source is added, it is included in the alerting policy, and the current version of the policy is published on the Ruler website. From the moment a source is active, its content appears in alerts. Ruler always informs the customer who made the request and, where relevant, the users of the profiles concerned.

## Your role: the human in the loop

Ruler informs; it does not decide for you. Ruler makes no automatic changes to your compliance or control framework and does not generate proposals to change it. You determine whether a new obligation or change affects your organisation:

* If an alert is not relevant, [archive it](/inbox/impact-and-archiving.md) with a short explanation.
* If the underlying topic or radar item does not apply to your organisation at all, [unfollow the radar item](/legal-framework/radar.md) or mark the topic as [do not assess](/legal-framework/topic-page.md).
* If the obligation is relevant, create a task, upload or update the linked [control measures](/control-measures.md) (policies, procedures, controls), and rescore the affected [risks](/risks/risk-assessments.md).