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+"""GuidanceIngester (Parser 3): ingests supervisory guidance (EDPB / DSK / ENISA
+/ BSI / CNIL) as a SEPARATE interpretative source — never a primary obligation.
+
+Guidance documents are heterogeneous PDFs / HTML, unlike the uniform eur-lex
+XHTML of Parsers 1-2. This module extracts the text (pdfplumber for PDF, a small
+HTML stripper otherwise), normalises it, and tags it
+source_class=supervisory_guidance / authority_weight=70 /
+bindingness=interpretative / use_for_primary=false, with references_out to the
+binding norms it interprets (Art. N DSGVO / § N BDSG). So guidance ranks BELOW
+binding law for obligation questions, yet stays fully retrievable as
+interpretation context (and is the right Top-1 for "what does the EDPB say?").
+
+Chunking is left to the RAG service (chunk_strategy='legal'); each resulting
+chunk inherits the guidance metadata. pdfplumber is imported lazily so the
+module (and its tests) load without it.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import html as html_lib
+import re
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any
+
+from services.legal_act_ingester import UploadUnit
+
+GUIDANCE_WEIGHT = 70
+
+_TAG_RE = re.compile(r"<[^>]+>")
+_WS_RE = re.compile(r"[ \t]+")
+_BLANK_RE = re.compile(r"\n{3,}")
+# "Artikel 37", "Art. 38", "Article 9" → the interpreted article number
+_ART_REF_RE = re.compile(r"\bArt(?:ikel|icle|\.)?\s*(\d+[a-z]?)", re.IGNORECASE)
+_PARA_REF_RE = re.compile(r"§\s*(\d+[a-z]?)")
+_MIN_GUIDANCE_CHARS = 200
+
+
+@dataclass
+class GuidanceSpec:
+    """One guidance document + the binding norm it interprets."""
+
+    source_id: str  # stable handle, e.g. "edpb_dpo"
+    short: str  # display handle used as regulation_short, e.g. "EDPB DPO"
+    title: str  # full title
+    publisher: str  # EDPB / DSK / ENISA / BSI / CNIL
+    url: str
+    interpreted_reg: str  # binding norm it interprets, e.g. "DSGVO" (for references_out)
+    collection: str = "bp_compliance_datenschutz"
+    version_date: str = ""
+    jurisdiction: str = "EU"
+
+
+def normalize_text(text: str) -> str:
+    """Collapse intra-line whitespace and runs of blank lines."""
+    text = html_lib.unescape(text)
+    text = _WS_RE.sub(" ", text)
+    text = "\n".join(line.strip() for line in text.split("\n"))
+    return _BLANK_RE.sub("\n\n", text).strip()
+
+
+def extract_pdf(path: str) -> str:
+    """Extract text from a PDF. pdfplumber is imported lazily (container only)."""
+    import pdfplumber  # noqa: PLC0415 — heavy, optional dep; only needed at ingest time
+
+    parts: list[str] = []
+    with pdfplumber.open(path) as pdf:
+        for page in pdf.pages:
+            page_text = page.extract_text(x_tolerance=3, y_tolerance=4)
+            if page_text:
+                parts.append(page_text)
+    return normalize_text("\n".join(parts))
+
+
+def extract_html(raw: str) -> str:
+    """Strip tags to plain text (for guidance served as HTML)."""
+    return normalize_text(_TAG_RE.sub(" ", raw))
+
+
+def guidance_refs_out(interpreted_reg: str, text: str) -> list[str]:
+    """Forward edges from the guidance to the binding norms it cites."""
+    out = {f"Art. {m} {interpreted_reg}" for m in _ART_REF_RE.findall(text)}
+    out |= {f"§ {m} BDSG" for m in _PARA_REF_RE.findall(text)}
+    return sorted(out)
+
+
+def guidance_meta(spec: GuidanceSpec, text: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    return {
+        "regulation_code": spec.short,
+        "regulation_short": spec.short,
+        "regulation_name_de": spec.title,
+        "citation_style": "guidance",
+        "document_type": "guidance",
+        "source_class": "supervisory_guidance",
+        "bindingness": "interpretative",
+        "authority_level": GUIDANCE_WEIGHT,
+        "authority_weight": GUIDANCE_WEIGHT,
+        "source_type": "guidance",
+        "issuer": spec.publisher,
+        "jurisdiction": spec.jurisdiction,
+        "version_date": spec.version_date,
+        "source": spec.url,
+        "license": "public_eu",
+        "category": "guidance",
+        "use_for_primary": False,  # interpretative — never a primary obligation source
+        "is_citable": True,
+        "citation_unit": spec.title,
+        "article_label": spec.short,
+        "chunk_scope": "guidance",
+        "interprets": spec.interpreted_reg,
+        "references_out": guidance_refs_out(spec.interpreted_reg, text),
+        "norm_id": f"GUIDANCE-{spec.source_id}",
+    }
+
+
+def self_test(text: str) -> tuple[bool, list[str]]:
+    """Gate before upload — guard against an empty/failed extraction."""
+    problems: list[str] = []
+    if len(text.strip()) < _MIN_GUIDANCE_CHARS:
+        problems.append(f"extracted text too short ({len(text.strip())} chars)")
+    return (not problems, problems)
+
+
+def build_upload_unit(spec: GuidanceSpec, text: str, run_tag: str) -> UploadUnit:
+    """One UploadUnit for the whole document; the RAG service chunks it and each
+    chunk inherits the guidance metadata."""
+    return UploadUnit(
+        filename=f"{spec.source_id}.txt",
+        text=text,
+        meta=guidance_meta(spec, text),
+        document_version=f"{run_tag}-{spec.source_id}",
+        collection=spec.collection,
+    )
diff --git a/control-pipeline/tests/test_guidance_ingester.py b/control-pipeline/tests/test_guidance_ingester.py
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+"""Unit tests for the GuidanceIngester engine (Parser 3).
+
+Pure tests on the text + metadata path (PDF extraction is a lazy pdfplumber
+wrapper, exercised in the container). Covers: normalisation, HTML stripping,
+references_out to the interpreted norm, the interpretative (non-primary)
+metadata and the self-test gate.
+"""
+
+from services.guidance_ingester import (
+    GuidanceSpec,
+    build_upload_unit,
+    extract_html,
+    guidance_meta,
+    guidance_refs_out,
+    normalize_text,
+    self_test,
+)
+
+SPEC = GuidanceSpec(
+    source_id="edpb_dpo",
+    short="EDPB DPO",
+    title="EDPB Leitlinien zum Datenschutzbeauftragten",
+    publisher="EDPB",
+    url="https://edpb.europa.eu/guidelines/dpo",
+    interpreted_reg="DSGVO",
+    version_date="2017-04-05",
+)
+
+
+def test_normalize_text_collapses_whitespace_and_blank_runs():
+    assert normalize_text("a   b\t c\n\n\n\nd") == "a b c\n\nd"
+
+
+def test_extract_html_strips_tags():
+    assert "Hallo Welt" in extract_html("<p>Hallo <b>Welt</b></p>")
+
+
+def test_guidance_refs_out_links_to_interpreted_reg():
+    text = "Gemaess Artikel 37, Art. 38 und Article 9 der Verordnung sowie § 38 BDSG."
+    refs = guidance_refs_out("DSGVO", text)
+    assert "Art. 37 DSGVO" in refs
+    assert "Art. 38 DSGVO" in refs
+    assert "Art. 9 DSGVO" in refs
+    assert "§ 38 BDSG" in refs
+
+
+def test_guidance_meta_is_interpretative_not_primary():
+    meta = guidance_meta(SPEC, "Diese Leitlinie erlaeutert Artikel 37 DSGVO im Detail.")
+    assert meta["source_class"] == "supervisory_guidance"
+    assert meta["authority_weight"] == 70
+    assert meta["use_for_primary"] is False
+    assert meta["bindingness"] == "interpretative"
+    assert meta["chunk_scope"] == "guidance"
+    assert meta["regulation_short"] == "EDPB DPO"
+    assert meta["interprets"] == "DSGVO"
+    assert meta["issuer"] == "EDPB"
+    assert "Art. 37 DSGVO" in meta["references_out"]
+
+
+def test_self_test_passes_long_and_flags_short():
+    ok, _ = self_test("x" * 300)
+    assert ok
+    bad, problems = self_test("too short")
+    assert not bad and "too short" in problems[0]
+
+
+def test_build_upload_unit_tags_collection_and_version():
+    unit = build_upload_unit(SPEC, "A" * 300 + " Artikel 35 DSGVO", "run9")
+    assert unit.document_version == "run9-edpb_dpo"
+    assert unit.collection == "bp_compliance_datenschutz"
+    assert unit.filename == "edpb_dpo.txt"
+    assert unit.meta["use_for_primary"] is False