bodleian law library sources of eu information online margaret watson angela carritt

Bodleian Law Library

Sources of EU Information Online

Margaret Watson

Angela Carritt


Sources of EU Information Online

• Official EU information sources (all available via Europa)– Celex– EurLex– PreLex– OEIL– Curia

• Commercial EU information sources– Eurolaw– Lexis Nexis– Westlaw– Justis Common Market

Law Reports


Celex

• Official database of the EU• Parent of most other sources of EU information

online • Only available in the Bodleian Law Library• Coverage

– Primary legislation (treaties)– Secondary legislation (directives, regulations, decisions)– Case law from ECJ, Court of First Instance)– Details of preparatory acts (COM docs)– Details of parliamentary questions– Some national implementation measures


Europa

• http://www.europa.eu.int/index_en.htm• Official source of European Union Information

on the web - the EU’s information portal• Aims to make full corpus of EU Law available

online • Free • Includes:

– EurLex– PreLex – OEIL– Curia


EUR-LEX, OEIL, Pre-Lex & the Curia•Free•Produced by different institutions•Have different emphases/specialise in different documents•Have different search interfaces & techniques•Links between the four services


EurLex Coverage

• http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html• Part of Europa = freely available on the web• Coverage:

– Official Journal C & L– Primary Legislation (Treaties)– Secondary Legislation (Directives, Regulations,

Decisions)– Case Law (ECJ and Court of First Instance)– Legislation in preparation (COM & SEC docs)– Parliamentary Questions– Documents of Public Interest


• Directives, Regulations, Decisions• Directory of Community Legislation in force

•Commission proposals (COM or SEC documents)

Opinions of:

• Economic & Social Committee• Committee of the Regions• Court of Auditors• European Central Bank

Cases from:• European Court of Justice• Court of First Instance

Enlargement Information


When searching by terms the following connectors apply:“my search phrase” = Phrase searchingWord, word = ORWord + word = AND* =Truncation symbol

EurLex search screens allow searches on: • document number • OJ reference• search termsbut you can’t combine these search terms


Not full text but...•Bibliographic details•Legislative history•Related documents

Full Text


The URL includes the Celex Number 31987L1028

For National Implementation Measures change the first 3 (which stands for Legislation) to 7 (for National Implementation Measures)


Directory of Legislation in Force - Analytical Structure


Directory of Legislation in Force- Alphabetical Structure


PreLex

• http://europa.eu.int/prelex/apcnet.cfm?CL=en• Produced by the European Commission • Part of Europa = freely available on the web• Follows the major stages of the legislation making

process between the Commission and the other institutions and provides access to the documents produced during the decision making process

• Good place to access COM, SEC documents and to find how far a COM document has got


ConnectorsWords must be entered in the order in which they appear. AND is assumed between words


Timeline of events


Links to documents produced by the Commission

Links to documentsproduced by the EconomicAnd Social Committee


Links to documents Produced by the EuropeanParliament


OEIL

• http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/dors/oeil/en/default.htm

• Similar to PreLex, but produced by the European Parliament

• Part of Europa = Freely available on the web• Good place to find documents of the

European Parliament (PE DOCS)


To search by document number

To search by search terms


PE Doc A5-0333/2002


Results Screen


Curia

• http://curia.eu.int/en/index.htm• Official sources of EU information produced

by the Curia• Part of Europa = Freely available on the web• Full text of ECJ & CFI cases from June 1997 -• Directory of ECJ cases 1957-, CFI 1989-

(very similar to the printed publication Court of Justice of the European Communities Index A-Z


To search for fulltext cases


Unreliable - if you can’t find your case use the “Words in Text” optionConnectors

OR at all times%= truncation symbol


Opinion of the Advocate General

Judgment


To access the Directory of Cases


Link to other parts of the Europa website for further details or the full text


Eurolaw

• Information provided by Celex • Eurolaw adds keywords and its own search

engine• Access via Oxlip• Requires a password from outside the Oxford

domain


Do not include any letters e.g. don’t use COM, SEC, FINAL etc

Connectors:ANDORNOTIf you do not use a connector treated as a phrase? - replaces a single letter * - truncation symbolWITHIN n = must occur within n words where n is a number


Results


Bibliographic section and details from Celex Number.


Full Text


Further information...Related documentsImportant dates...


Lexis

• Follow link to Lexis Nexis Professional Standard Interface (this is not the main link)

• Case Law– ECJ & CFI cases, 1954-

• Legislation– Treaties, Secondary legislation, National

Implementations• Preparatory Documents• Parliamentary Questions


EU Legislation option includes preparatory docs


Westlaw

• Case Law– Common Market Law Reports, 1962-,– ECJ & CFI cases, 1954-

• Legislation– Treaties– Secondary Legislation

• Preparatory Documents


Justis Common Market Law Reports

• Available via Oxlip

• Full Text Significant case law from:– European Court of Justice– Court of First Instance– EC Commission– EFTA Court– British and Irish cases applying EC law– cases applying EC law from national courts

across the EU.– ECJ cases from the International Litigation

Procedure, 1990-