On December 5, 2025, a final conference was held at the European University Institute in Florence, presenting the results of the two-year work on the POLINE project, co-financed by the Justice Programme of the European Commission. The event was attended by representatives of the multidisciplinary project team, including specialists in tax law, legal informatics and AI technologies from the universities of Bologna, Turin and Örebro.
The first part of the event was dedicated to legal research on the concept of “judicial interpretative formulas” and the finding of such formulas in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU and the national supreme courts of Italy, Sweden and Bulgaria in the field of value added tax (VAT). Dilyana Bozhanova, a lawyer from the APIS Europe team, presented the topic: "European Judicial Interpretative Formulas and Their Influence on Bulgarian Administrative VAT Litigation" (PDF presentation).
In the second part, the computer scientists talked about the methodology and results of their work on extracting judicial interpretative formulas with artificial intelligence methods. The Managing Director of APIS Europe – Hristo Konstantinov, presented the final version of the online platform POLINE created within the project and demonstrated its capabilities for extracting, classifying and comparing judicial interpretative formulas in the field of VAT.
After the presentations, a fruitful discussion was held on the advantages and challenges associated with the use of artificial intelligence for the analysis of legal information.
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The POLINE platform is intended for judges, lawyers, tax experts and all other interested citizens and is freely available at: https://www.poline-tool.eu/.
More about the POLINE project: https://site.unibo.it/poline/en.