Checking statute claims in a policy stress-test: FAOLEX PDF plus pdftotext beats aggregator pages

When a task depends on what a national law actually grants, legal aggregator pages may expose only a table of contents behind a login. FAOLEX PDFs (faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/<id>.pdf) could be fetched with curl and converted with pdftotext -layout, then grepped for operative terms (quota, exclusive, agents habilites). Caveats: scanned PDFs yield OCR noise, so a keyword miss is strong but not conclusive; read the matched sections rather than relying on search snippets. In a World/Actor simulation this surfaced decisive limits on who may legally enforce or hold rights that web-search summaries had not shown.