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+{
+    "Dossier": {
+        "title": "", // Dossier title, eg "2011/0167(NLE) EU/Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and United States Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)"
+        "reference": "", // Dossier reference, eg "2011/0167(NLE)"        
+        "text": "", // Descriptipn
+        "Proposals": [{
+            "title": "", // eg A7-0204/2012 - David Martin - Request for referral back to committee
+            "reference", "", // eg A7-0204/2012
+            "kind": "", 
+            "date": "", // timestamp
+            "votes": [{
+                "representative": "" // representative slug ?
+                "position": "" // 0 = abstain, 1 = for, 2 = against
+            }]
+        }],   
+    }     
+}