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European Documentation Centre

The European Documentation Centre (EDC) in Nijmegen has been part of the Law Library since 1990. All official publications of the European Union are collected and catalogued. The collection consists of books, journals and other materials. To make the collection accessible, the EDC has catalogues and reference works. You can send responses to edc@ubn.ru.nl.

European Union

Official website of the European Union
Activities, institutions, documents and services of the European Union.

Institutions

Information about (the role of) Institutions and links to publications.

Council of the European Union
Voice of EU member governments, adopting EU laws and coordinating EU policies (more information)
Court of Justice of the European Union
Ensures that EU law is interpreted and applied the same in every EU country and that countries and EU institutions abide by EU law (more information)
Departments (Directorates-General) and Services
Directorate-General (DG' s) are the largest independent entities within the supportive apparatus of the European Commission. Moreover there is still a number of services, such as the legal service. On this site you find policies, internal and general services and external relations of the Directorates
European Commission
Promotes the general interest of the EU by proposing and enforcing legislation as well as by implementing policies and the EU budget (more information)
European Council
Defines the general political direction and priorities of the European Union usually by adopting Conclusions (online available from 1975 on) (more information)
European Court of Auditors
To check EU funds are collected and used correctly, and help improve EU financial management (more information)
European Data Protection Supervisor
Ensures that EU institutions and bodies respect people's right to privacy when processing their personal data (more information)
European Ombudsman
Investigates complaints against EU institutions, bodies, offices & agencies (more information)
European Parliament
Directly-elected EU body with legislative, supervisory, and budgetary responsibilities (more information)

Advisory bodies

Committee of the Regions
Advisory body representing Europe's regional and local authorities (more information)
European Economic and Social Committee
Advisory body representing workers' and employers' organisations and other interest groups (more information)

Financial bodies

European Central Bank
Manages the euro and frames and implements EU economic & monetary policy. Its main aim is to keep prices stable, thereby supporting economic growth and job creation (more information)
European Investment Bank
Provides funding for projects that help to achieve EU aims, both within and outside the EU (more information)

Interinstitutional bodies

Office for Official Publications of the European Union (Publications Office)
Publishing house for the EU institutions, producing and distributing all official European Union publications, on paper and in digital form

Decentralised agencies

EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights provides independent advice to EU and national decision makers on fundamental rights.

Catalogue of the Library of the Court of Justice
European Union Law, Catalogues
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This is a good starting point for online bibliographical research.
All the Library's new acquisitions, including issues of periodicals, are examined for the purpose of finding:
- articles on European Union law and other areas of law of interest for the institution's work
  The articles selected are then indexed and catalogued;
- notes on judgments of the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal.

CURIA This link opens in a new window
European Union, Law, Case law
Official website of the Court of Justice of the European Union with the complete texts of Judgments, orders and opinions from the Court of Justice (Court of Justice, General Court and Civil Service Tribunal) and Opinions and views of Advocates General
Coverage: 1953 - present
Manual
See also: EUR-Lex

EU Publications European Union law, Books, Journals, Journal articles
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Online bookshop, library and archive of publications
Coverage: 1952 - ....
PDF and e-book versions are free of charge
EU Whoiswho
European Union, Directories
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Electronic directory of managers and services in the EU institutions, bodies and agencies

EUR-Lex This link opens in a new window
European Union, European law, Case law, Treaties, Legislation, EFTA-documents, Preparatory Acts, Parliamentary questions, International agreements
EUR-Lex provides free access, in the 24 official EU languages, to:
- The Official Journal of the European Union.
- EU law (EU treaties, directives, regulations, decisions, consolidated legislation, etc.).
- Preparatory acts (legislative proposals, reports, green and white papers, etc.).
- Parliamentary questions.
- EU case-law (judgements, orders, etc.).
- International agreements.
- EFTA documents.
- Other public documents.
E-learning module

European e-Justice Portal
"One-stop (electronic) shop" for information on European justice and access to European judicial procedures
Eurostat
European Union, Statistics
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Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. This website contains a statistics database
FIND-eR
European Union, Catalogue
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Search for items from the European Commission Library catalogue and through the Library's electronic collections, containing the official publications of the European Union and documentation and publications from international organizations, commercial, academic government publishers
Inter-parliamentary EU Information Exchange (IPEX)
European Union, Parliamentary documents
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Platform for the mutual exchange of information between the national Parliaments and the European Parliament concerning issues related to the European Union.
The Documents database contains draft legislative proposals, consultation and information documents coming from the European Commission, parliamentary documents and information concerning the European Union
Inter Active Terminology for Europe (IATE)
Dictionaries
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The multilingual terminological database of the Commission's Translation Service
Legislative Observatory = L' Observatoire Législatif (OEIL)
European Union, Legislative procedures
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A search instrument developed by the Parliament to monitor decision and legislative proceedings. Various search options provide an overview of all documents relating to a particular proceeding.
The website contains records for all procedures still ongoing - irrespective of when they began - and all procedures that have been submitted to the European Parliament since the beginning of the fourth parliamentary term in July 1994.
N-Lex
EU member states, Legislation
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Gateway to national law from the individual European member states
National case-law database (DEC.NAT)
European Union law, Case law
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The database contains:
- the national case law regarding European Union law
- the reference to annotations and comments in books and articles related to national decisions and judgements delivered under the preliminary ruled procedure by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning those matters
Official documents published by the EU institutions
Overview of documents by institution
Rapid
European Union, Press Releases
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Press Releases of the Commission and of some of the other European institutions including the Council of the European Union
Search Europa
To search the official EU websites (europa.eu sites)
Summaries of EU legislation
European Union, Law, Legislation
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This site presents the main aspects of European Union (EU) legislation in a concise, easy-to-read and unbiased manner

Get started for searching the internet in the field of European law

Archive of European Integration (AEI)
An electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification
European University Institute
International centre for doctorate and post-doctorate studies and research with a European focus
European Union in the US
The delegation of the European Union to the United States
Globalex (New York School of Law): International Law Research: European Union

Library guide Law: EDC