Glossary · BINA Docs

Term	Definition
ADLC	Autorité de la concurrence, the French competition authority. Authority code `ADLC`.
Addressee	A company a decision is addressed to.
Auto-approved	A model proposal that passed every deterministic check and was accepted under the project policy (`autoApproved: true`). Still retractable.
Bulletin	All documents published in a period, sorted by the level table.
Case report	The report for one level 1 or 2 case: figures, summary, parties, similar decisions.
Category 1 party	A party named in the decision, backed by a verbatim recital quote.
Category 2 party	A party added by BINA as a hypothesis. Never a finding.
Claimant signal	A rating (`strong`, `medium`, `none`, `unknown`) on one of five relevance criteria for a party. A clue, never proof.
DG COMP	The European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition. Authority code `EC`.
DMA	Digital Markets Act. DMA non-compliance decisions use the DMA victims method.
Document type	The normalised kind of a publication, e.g. `prohibition_decision`. The only input to the level.
Estimate	Any computed value. Always carries `estimate: true`, a legal basis and a caveat.
Event log	`data/events.jsonl`, the append-only legal record.
Fixture / sample mode	The built-in July 2026 inventory with paraphrased recitals. Flagged `sample: true`.
Hypothesis pass	The step that proposes up to three category 2 groups for a decision.
Level	1, 2, 3 or 0 (routine), fixed by the level table from the document type.
Projection	The SQLite database, rebuilt from the event log. Never cited.
Quote gate	The verbatim check (`verifyQuote`) every cited quote must pass.
Recital	A numbered paragraph of a decision. The unit every citation points to.
Unclassified	A document type absent from the level table. Sent to review, never given a level.
Watchlist	Company names to alert on: clients, prospects, opponents or markets.