EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex is the online gateway to EU Law. It provides the official access to EU legal documents. It is available in all of the EU’s 24 official languages and is updated daily.
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EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex is the online gateway to EU Law. It provides the official access to EU legal documents. It is available in all of the EU’s 24 official languages and is updated daily.
Database info
On Eur-Lex you find the following EU legal documents:
- Treaties
- Legal acts from EU institutions
- Preparatory documents related to EU legislation
- EU case-law
- International agreements
- EFTA documents
- References to and, for those Member States that agreed, also texts of national transposition measures
- References to national case-law related to EU law.
EUR-Lex gives you access to all the editions of the Official Journal of the European Union (Official Journal) from the very first one of December 1952. Since 1 July 2013, the electronic edition of the Official Journal published on EUR-Lex is authentic and produces legal effects.
It also helps you to understand EU Law by providing:
- the main stages of the procedures leading to the adoption of legal acts
- consolidated texts which combine the initial legal acts and all their amendments into single documents
- over 2000 Summaries of EU legislation that explain EU legislation in a plain, easy-to-read and concise way.
If you have text in another language, it is advisable to search in the corresponding language version of Eur-Lex. Once you have found the document, you can switch back to your preferred language.
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