Official sources and databases EU


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EUR-lex

EUR-Lex provides free access, in the 24 official EU languages, to: the Official Journal of the European Union, EU law (EU treaties, directives, regulations, decisions, consolidated legislation, etc.), preparatory acts (legislative proposals, reports, green and white papers, etc.), EU case-law (judgements, orders, etc.), international agreements, EFTA documents and other public documents. It also allows you to follow legislative procedures. The database is updated daily and contains more than 3 million items with some texts dating back to 1951. Each document is displayed with analytical metadata (publication reference, dates, keywords, etc.) organised behind different tabs: about this document, text, linked documents, procedure (the life cycle of a document), all. A document can be displayed in up to 3 languages simultaneously.

European E-justice

The European e-Justice Portal is conceived as a future electronic one-stop-shop in the area of justice. As a first step it strives to make your life easier by providing information on justice systems and improving access to justice throughout the EU, in 23 languages.

 CURIA - Court of Justice of the European Union

Only the versions of the documents published in the ‘Reports of Cases' or the ‘Official Journal of the European Union' are authentic. The other documents available on the Institution's website are given for the purposes of public information and are subject to amendment. The information and texts available on this site may be reproduced provided the source is acknowledged. Readers should be aware that certain parts of such information and texts might be protected under intellectual property law, in particular by copyright.

 

OEIL - European Parlament Legislative Observatory 

The Legislative Observatory database was set up in 1994 as a tool for monitoring the EU institutional decision-making process, with a particular focus on the European Parliament's role. The website has ever since expanded to include more information on Parliament's activities, involving not only its legislative but also its budgetary powers, its right of initiative, its power to endorse appointments, its power to revoke a delegation of power or oppose to its tacit renewal etc.

 

TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)

TED provides free access to business opportunities from the European Union, the European Economic Area and beyond. Every day, from Tuesday to Saturday, a further 1,700 public procurement notices are published on TED. You can browse, search and sort procurement notices by country, region, business sector and more. Information about every procurement document is published in the 24 official EU languages. All notices from the EU's institutions are published in full in these languages.

 

European Sources Online (access from faculty computers)

European Sources Online (ESO) is an online database and information service which provides access to information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions and other international organisations of Europe, and on issues of importance to European researchers, citizens and stakeholders.