  Permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) are sensitive probes of the symmetry
structure of elementary particles, which in turn is closely tied to the baryon
asymmetry in the universe. A meaningful interpretation framework for EDM
measurements has to be based on effective quantum field theory. We interpret
the measurements performed to date in terms of a hadronic-scale Lagrangian,
using the SFitter global analysis framework. We find that part of this
Lagrangian is constrained very well, while some of the parameters suffer from
too few high-precision measurements. Theory uncertainties lead to weaker model
constraints, but can be controlled within the global analysis.
