How are decisions imported in our database? What is the structure of the data?
For each decision we make a distinction between several levels: one decision includes one or more defendants and each defendant faces one or more accusations. Thus we distinguish the following characteristics:
- Level of the decision: type of decision, date, region…
- Level of the defendant: individual versus firm, presence of third parties, conviction, type of sanction, level of sanction…
- Level of the accusation: type of pollution, legislative text, specific offense…