Access to legislation in Europe
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The Guide to the legal gazettes and other official information sources in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association (pdf-file, 244 p., 4.5 MB, English) can be downloaded from the EU Bookshop[1]
free of charge.
The guide provides general information on the legislative sources of EU and its 27 member state, the European Economic Area (EEA)[2] and the four Member States of the EFTA.
Each of these 33 descriptions has the following structure:
1. Legal gazette
1.1. Overview
1.2. Details on the legal gazette in general
1.3. Details on the online edition
1.4. Details on the publishing institution
1.5. Drafting and publishing procedures
2. Collections of consolidated legislation
3. Legislative portals and online databases
3.1. Official portals
3.2. Official databases
3.3. Additional information: other commonly used legal databases
You may also like to visit the N-Lex website. There you can query national laws in 23 EU countries via a standard search screen, in 22 of the EU’s official languages.
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- EU Bookshop is an online service giving access to publications from the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies. In addition to the online bookshop, this service will offer an online catalogue and archive of all EU publications.
EU Bookshop will allow users to search for EU publications, order them and where possible, download copies.
The online EU Bookshop catalogue contains publications issued in the past three years. Earlier publications can be found in the archive. Please note that some older publications are not yet in the archive as it is still under construction. [↩] - The European Economic Area (EEA) was established on 1 January 1994 following an agreement[1] between member states of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the European Community (EC), and all member states of the European Union (EU). It allows these EFTA countries to participate in the European single market without joining the EU. Source: Wikipedia [↩]
Hartmut Buettner @ October 31, 2009
