THE WEBSITE EUROPE

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THE WEBSITE EUROPE

• 5 de marzo de 2008

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• http//www.europa.eu

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The website Europe

• It was created in 1995 due to the G-7 meeting
  about information society
• Nowadays, it has become an important instrument
  with general and specifical information about the
  European Union
• It has versions in every official language

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What can we find?

• Information about the institutions and organisms
  of the European Union
• Information about the european integration and
  the european policies
• History of the EU
• Access to the official documents of the EU

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Organization of the website

• Basic information to citizens
• Access to news and current topics
• Access to activities, institutions, documents and
  services
• 4. Search and direct access

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1. Basic information

• Discover the EU
• Information of divulging and schematic character.
  
• Games.
• Living in the EU
• Citizens rights, tips to live in foreign
  countries
• Interact with the EU
• Citizen information

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2. News and current events

• Cover last informations
• The EU day by day headlines of the main press
  official notices (en, fr, de)
• All the news access to Europe Press Room, and
  the database Rapid which contains the press
  official notices since 1985 (en, fr, de)

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2. News and current events
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3. Activities, institutions, documents and
services

• Thematic information about the activities in the
  EU
• Access to the websites of the european
  institutions and organisms
• Access to the documents of the european
  institutions
• Services offered to the citizens

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3.1 Activities
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3.2 Institutions
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3.3 Documents
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3.4 Services
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4. Search and direct access
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• THE LEGISLATION WEBSITE OF THE EU
• http//eur-lex.europa.eu/

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EUR-LEX

• It is the best instrument for the search, the
  location and the recovery of the communitarian
  right
• Before, it was a by-product of the data base
  CELEX. From the 1 of January of 2005 it is the
  website of the right of the EU. The two data
  bases have megred and CELEX has stopped existing.

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EUR-LEX

• What can we find?
• Legislation
• Jurisprudence
• Preparatory acts
• Treaties
• Parliamentary questions
• Official journal C and L series
• Repertoire of the effective communitarian
  legislation
• European Court cases

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EUR-LEX

• Search options simple
• advanced
• by colections
• Version in every official language of the
  European Union
• File format HTML, PDF, TIFF, DOC

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EUR-LEX search example

• ? MARSHALL judgement
• Judgement of the Court of 2nd August 1993
• M. Helen Marshall versus Southampton and South
  West Hampshire Area Health Authority
• About equal treatment of men and women

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If the search was not successful we are able
to Make a new search Refine the search (to
obtain more accurate results) Get all the
searchs we have made (search history) and combine
or change them
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EUR-LEX results page

• The results are obtained in the form of ready
  ordinate (we can choose, per date, type).
• Of each document we get the following
  information
• Document reference (tipe, title, date)
• Bibliographic reference (where it is and in which
  language)
• Text (if you have access) in html, pdf, tiff,
  doc.
• Besides, we can choose other aditional
  information
• - Dates
• - Languages and available file formats
• - Clasifications

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EUR-LEX save the results

• ? If we want to save a document in our computer
  (or in a pendrive) we need to do it from the full
  text of the document, NEVER from the page of the
  bibliographic references o the list of results.
• (lo mismo si queremos crear un enlace)

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EUR-LEX file format.

• DOC
• PDF
• HTML
• The website is saved as a htm file. This way
  we can have access to the text without links and
  we will be able to change it into Word.
• TIFF
• We ask for the document to be sent to our
  e-mail. We will receive it compressed.

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EUR-LEX create links

• If you want to send a link to one of the
  documents of Eur-lex you have to do it always
  from the website of the full text of the document
  (not from the search page, results,
  references...)
• The link should be this kind
• http//eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.
  do?uriCELEX32006L0115ESHTML

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EUR-LEX example

• ? Decision 771/2006/CEE of 17th may 2006
  establishing the European Year of Equal
  Opportunities for All (2007)
• Published in
• DOUE 146 L 31th may 2006, p. 1-7

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EUR-LEX example

• ? Directive 2004/38/CE of the European
  Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on
  the right of citizens of the Union and their
  family members to move and reside freely within
  the territory of the Member States

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EUR-LEX example

• ? Directive 2006/54/CE on the implementation of
  the principle of equal opportunities and equal
  treatment of men and women in matters of
  employment and occupation

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EUR-LEX example

• ? Directive 2000/43/CE implementing the principle
  of equal treatment between persons irrespective
  of racial or ethnic origin

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EUR-LEX example

• ? Judgement Bosman of the Court of 15th decembre
  1995
• Case C-415/93
• Freedom of movement for workers

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EUR-LEX example

• ? Judgement Kalanke of the Court of 17th
  october 1995
• Case C-450/93
• Equal treaetment of men and women

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Other informations in EUR-LEX

• N-LEX
• http//eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/
  Website to get the national legislation
  (experimental phase)
• Current documents selection
• General information about european legislation
  (processes, protagonists and legislative technique

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TSJCE

• The official source is the Compilation of the
  Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice and the
  Court of First Instance
• Jurisprudence from the 17 of June of 1997
• Documents in full text and in every official
  language of the EU

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TJSCE

• The search is done through a form that contains
  the fields
• Court
• Type of document
• Number of case
• Date
• Name of the parts
• Legal scope
• Words in the text

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TJSCE example

• Judgement Jégo-Quéré of the Court of 1 of april
  of 2004

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TJSCE icones
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TJSCE other informations

• Doctrine on the cases that have been judged in
  the Court can be found in the link
  http//curia.europa.eu/es/content/juris/index_not
  e.htm
• Every week the Activities of the Court of Justice
  and the Court of first Instance are published.
  Very useful to be up-to-day of the last
  jurisprudence. It can be consulted in
• http//curia.europa.eu/es/actu/activites/index.ht
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OTHER WEB RESOURCES

• How to consult the databases?
• How to mention electronic documents?
• You will find information in the page of services
  of the library
• http//biblioteca.udg.es/serveis/guies/index.asp

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• CENTRE DE DOCUMENTACIÓ EUROPEA
• (Biblioteca Montilivi
• Edifici 2)
• Eva Monge Fernández
• 972 418218
• cde_at_udg.edu
• biblioteca.udg.edu/cde