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Law: Finding EU Legislation |
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Finding EU Legislation Legislation can be divided into two main types: Primary Legislation The various treaties establishing and amending these treaties. Secondary legislation Also called subordinate or delegated legislation. The main instruments of secondary legislation are regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions and are all published in the Official Journal of the European Communities (OJ).
The Treaties The European Union is based on the rule of law. This means that everything that it does is derived from treaties, which are agreed on voluntarily and democratically by all Member States. Previously signed treaties have been changed and updated to keep up with developments in society. The full text of all the Treaties can be found on the European Unions' legal information portal 'EURLEX'.
Treaty of
Lisbon
European Convention
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union This issue of the Official Journal also includes tables of equivalences. The EURLEX is the official EU portal for EU law and provides complete collections of EU legal texts. This search engine allows searching for specific documents by citation (natural number) or category e.g. legislation, case-law or a general search by terms or EUROVOC keywords (EUROVOC is a EU thesaurus which provides controlled keywords for different topics). The Official Journal of The European Communities (OJ) All secondary legislation is published in the 'L (Legislation) Series' of the Official Journal (often referred to as OJ L) and is located in print format in the Albert Sloman Library European Documentation Centre on Floor 4 at classmark J 280.2. The L series is published daily and divided into two sections. The first contains acts whose publication is obligatory, eg. Regulations; the second section contains acts whose publication is not obligatory, eg. Directives, Decisions, etc. The official journal is also available in pdf format from 1998 onwards on Eurlex. Directory of Community Legislation in Force The analytical structure of the Directory of Community legislation comprises 20 'Topic' based chapters with divisions into further sub-sections as necessary. Selecting one of the sections will return a list of all titles of acts in force classified in this section. The Directory covers agreements, directives, regulations and decisions. The legislation on the Directory gives access to consolidated texts, which have no legal value but which integrate a basic instrument of Community legislation with its subsequent amendments and corrections in a single text. Previously called ScadPlus, the 'Summaries of EU legislation' website presents the main aspects of European Union (EU) legislation in a concise & easy-to-read manner. It forms part of the Europa portal, which is published by the EU institutions. Westlaw: EU Legislation EU-LEG Full text of legislative acts of the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, and the European Commission reported in the Official Journal of the European Community, L Series, including international agreements; secondary legislation such as regulations and European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) general decisions, directives, and recommendations; and supplementary legislation (legislation resulting from agreements between member states). Coverage begins with 1952. The File EU-LEG is located in the Westlaw UK directory under European Union > Legislation. See the database menu for access to Westlaw and database guide for search help. The EU Legislation file on LNB covers Decisions, Directives and Regulations of the European Union. Also included, under the heading 'Other', are Notices, Communications, Guidelines, Recommendations, Common Positions, comfort letters from the Commission, and Information. Within the 'Consolidated Law' folder are weekly updated PDFs of the Official Journal entries for all EU legislation searchable by Celex number. EU Implementation in Domestic Law N-Lex http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/ A common gateway to national implementing measures which aims to help facilitate access to information on how directives have been transposed by 22 of the member states (Cyprus, Hungary and Latvia are not included). |
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