Finding out about National Implementation of EU law

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Finding out about National Implementation of EU
law

• Ian Thomson
• University of Zagreb Faculty of Law Library
• Seminar New developments in EU legal research,
  27 October 2008

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Finding out about National Implementation of EU
law

• EU Directives need to be transposed into the
  national law of each Member State these are
  called National Implementing Measures (NIM)
• Traditionally, the EU itself does not publish the
  full text of NIM so how do you find this
  information?

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Finding out about National Implementation of EU
law

• EUR-LEX
• offers bibliographical informationfor national
  implementing measures
• is promising to offer in the near future links
  to the full text of national implementing
  measures in the language of the Member State
  concerned

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Finding out about National Implementation of EU
law

• N-Lex
• A common gateway to national law
• N-Lex is intended to help searching for national
  law of a country, not specifically national
  implementing measures
• Experimental

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Finding out about National Implementation of EU
law

• Government departments in the Member States will
  often have information relating to the national
  implementation of particular pieces of EU law

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Finding out about National Implementation of EU
law

• A good model example

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Finding out about National Implementation of EU
law

• European Commission information about national
  implementation

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Finding out about National Implementation of EU
law

• Guide to transposing a Directive