Directive (European Union)

Directive of the European Union - legislative act of the European Union. Article "Directive (European Union)" in English Wikipedia has 40.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Estonian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Directive (European Union)", its content was written by 110 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 896 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1552 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9023 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5973 in February 2004
• Global: #5782 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #55285 in November 2014
• Global: #25525 in November 2008

There are 33 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Estonian (et) Euroopa Liidu direktiiv		52.6128
2	German (de) Richtlinie (EU)		45.9973
3	Swedish (sv) Direktiv (Europeiska unionen)		43.9967
4	French (fr) Directive de l'Union européenne		43.673
5	English (en) Directive (European Union)		40.3367
6	Chinese (zh) 歐洲聯盟指令		39.307
7	Ukrainian (uk) Директива (Європейський Союз)		30.2997
8	Greek (el) Οδηγία της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης		27.7518
9	Catalan (ca) Directiva europea		27.0398
10	Arabic (ar) توجيه (الاتحاد الأوروبي)		26.3477

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Directive (European Union)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Directive (European Union)		1 945 804
2	German (de) Richtlinie (EU)		1 605 373
3	French (fr) Directive de l'Union européenne		926 889
4	Italian (it) Direttiva dell'Unione europea		727 735
5	Spanish (es) Directiva (derecho de la Unión Europea)		527 293
6	Polish (pl) Dyrektywa (Unia Europejska)		514 260
7	Dutch (nl) Europese richtlijn		245 077
8	Japanese (ja) 指令 (EU)		140 137
9	Swedish (sv) Direktiv (Europeiska unionen)		132 330
10	Czech (cs) Směrnice Evropské unie		108 910

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Directive (European Union)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Directive (European Union)		2 839
2	German (de) Richtlinie (EU)		1 453
3	French (fr) Directive de l'Union européenne		566
4	Italian (it) Direttiva dell'Unione europea		455
5	Polish (pl) Dyrektywa (Unia Europejska)		327
6	Russian (ru) Директива Европейского союза		265
7	Czech (cs) Směrnice Evropské unie		206
8	Chinese (zh) 歐洲聯盟指令		206
9	Spanish (es) Directiva (derecho de la Unión Europea)		203
10	Japanese (ja) 指令 (EU)		201

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Directive (European Union)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Richtlinie (EU)		167
2	French (fr) Directive de l'Union européenne		123
3	English (en) Directive (European Union)		110
4	Italian (it) Direttiva dell'Unione europea		75
5	Dutch (nl) Europese richtlijn		51
6	Norwegian (no) Direktiv (Den europeiske union)		48
7	Russian (ru) Директива Европейского союза		33
8	Polish (pl) Dyrektywa (Unia Europejska)		28
9	Spanish (es) Directiva (derecho de la Unión Europea)		27
10	Finnish (fi) Direktiivi (Euroopan unioni)		27

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Directive (European Union)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) توجيه (الاتحاد الأوروبي)		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) Direktiv (Avropa İttifaqı)		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Директива (Европейски съюз)		0
4	Catalan (ca) Directiva europea		0
5	Czech (cs) Směrnice Evropské unie		0
6	Danish (da) Direktiv		0
7	German (de) Richtlinie (EU)		0
8	Greek (el) Οδηγία της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης		0
9	English (en) Directive (European Union)		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Direktivo (Eŭropa Unio)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Directive (European Union)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Directive de l'Union européenne		2 532
2	English (en) Directive (European Union)		1 552
3	German (de) Richtlinie (EU)		801
4	Ukrainian (uk) Директива (Європейський Союз)		476
5	Dutch (nl) Europese richtlijn		418
6	Italian (it) Direttiva dell'Unione europea		386
7	Arabic (ar) توجيه (الاتحاد الأوروبي)		346
8	Swedish (sv) Direktiv (Europeiska unionen)		262
9	Norwegian (no) Direktiv (Den europeiske union)		252
10	Catalan (ca) Directiva europea		223

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic توجيه (الاتحاد الأوروبي)
az	Azerbaijani Direktiv (Avropa İttifaqı)
bg	Bulgarian Директива (Европейски съюз)
ca	Catalan Directiva europea
cs	Czech Směrnice Evropské unie
da	Danish Direktiv
de	German Richtlinie (EU)
el	Greek Οδηγία της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης
en	English Directive (European Union)
eo	Esperanto Direktivo (Eŭropa Unio)
es	Spanish Directiva (derecho de la Unión Europea)
et	Estonian Euroopa Liidu direktiiv
eu	Basque Zuzentarau
fa	Persian دستورالعمل (اتحادیه اروپا)
fi	Finnish Direktiivi (Euroopan unioni)
fr	French Directive de l'Union européenne
hr	Croatian Direktiva Europske unije
hu	Hungarian Európai irányelv
id	Indonesian Pedoman (Uni Eropa)
it	Italian Direttiva dell'Unione europea
ja	Japanese 指令 (EU)
nl	Dutch Europese richtlijn
no	Norwegian Direktiv (Den europeiske union)
pl	Polish Dyrektywa (Unia Europejska)
pt	Portuguese Diretiva (União Europeia)
ro	Romanian Directivă (Uniunea Europeană)
ru	Russian Директива Европейского союза
sh	Serbo-Croatian Direktiva (EU)
sk	Slovak Smernica (EÚ)
sv	Swedish Direktiv (Europeiska unionen)
tr	Turkish Yönerge (Avrupa Birliği)
uk	Ukrainian Директива (Європейський Союз)
zh	Chinese 歐洲聯盟指令

Best Rank

English: #55285 11.2014

Global: #25525 11.2008

Best Rank

English: #5973 02.2004

Global: #5782 02.2004

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