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EU Law Online
EUDUG Meeting EP Office, London, 16 April
2002 Regina Vahrmeijer
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• Todays main issues
• Demonstration Eurlex / Celex
• Challenges

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Todays main issues

• Public access to EU documents
• Integrated systems

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Public Access to EU documents

• Regulation 1049/2001 regarding public access to
  European Parliament, Council and Commission
  documents
• adapt Rules of procedure 3 December 2001
• direct access in electronic form
• open on-line register 3 June 2002

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Documents of the institutions

• Preparatory actsLegislative documents drawn up
  or received in the course of procedures for the
  adoption of acts which are legally binding in or
  for the Member States
• Policy papersDocuments related to development of
  policy or strategy
• Other documentsOther documents included in the
  register

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Integration

• Single entry point to EU Law
• Eurlex, Celex, Curia ...
• Single entry point to documents of the
  institutions
• Prelex, The Legislative Observatory, ...
• On-line dissemination as an integrated part of
  document production
• Official Journal, Greffe 2000, ...

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Integrated services
Eurlex Portal to EU Law Guided search
Links EU sites
Celex Menu / Expert search
Eurlex Search facilities
Celex databases Eudor Archive Curia (Court of
Justice) Prelex (Commission) The Legislative
observatory (EP)
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• 1970s - Commission opens Celex database
• 1980s - Public access against payment
• 1995 Transfer to the Publications Office
• 1997 Celex on the web
• 2000 Integrated access to
• - pdf and tiff text repositories
• - PreLex and The Legislative Observatory

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• 1998 Publications Office opens EUR-Lex
• 2001 Eurlex Portal to EU Law
• 1998 Official Journal on-line (45 days)
• 1999 Directory of Legislation in force
• Directory of Commission proposals
• COM documents
• 2001 Search facilities accessing Celex/Curia
• 2002 Free access to EU Law

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1 January 2002

• The Portal to EU Law
• easy access to EU Law
• for the general public
• free of charge
• The Value added service
• advanced search tools
• for professional users
• paid service

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EU Law onlinefuture developments

• Preparatory acts
• search by procedure
• documents directly from the source
• integration of the Prelex/OEIL services
• Original treaties
• Improvement of the quality of html texts
• Developing the value added service
• Integrated look
• Integration of explanatory texts

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Improving the Value added service

• New features
• Alert service
• News flash
• User Forum
• Extended coverage
• Consolidated texts
• National case law
• Annotations

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Challenges

• New member states - new languages
• New technologies - old texts
• Manage the information overload
• Same day delivery
• Authenticity

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The Value Added Service

• Full legal and documentary analysis
• Cross-references between documents
• Alert service
• User Forum, news flash
• User-support, training and documentation

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Coverage

• Treaties
• Official Journal L C
• COM SEC documents
• Merger decisions
• Case Law
• National implementation measures
• Consolidated texts

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Menu Interface

• full text search, search on words in title
• search by document and publication reference,
  dates or periods, author, type of document,
  subject matter
• navigation cross-searching, refine your search
• translation bi-lingual text display

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Expert interface

• search in the complete Celex databases, including
  html text files
• cross-searches in any given combination
• personalised display models
• save and re-use of personalised search profiles
• listings extraction of data

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EUR-Lex the portal EU Law

• single entry point for information on EU law
• free access to legislative texts
• guided search facilities
• direct search in EU legal databases and archives
• links to other EU sites with legislative
  documentation

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Coverage

• Legislation
• Legislation in preparation
• Case law
• Parliamentary questions
• Other documents of public interest
• Treaties selection

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Search facilities

• Search by
• full text
• by document number
• by publication reference
• search in
• the Eurlex site
• the Celex databases
• the Curia database
• Acces
• the Eurlex and Celex text repositories
• the Eudor Archive

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Add also ...

• Official Journal On-line
• Directory of Legislation in Force
• Directory of Commission Proposals
• COM documents listed
• Consolidated texts listed

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Links ...

• Prelex
• The Legislative Observatory
• Council Register
• SCAD Plus
• etc.

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http//publications.eu .int
http//europa.eu.int/eur-lex
http//europa.eu.int/celex
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