Eurolaw is the definitive full-text legal database of the European Union, comprising of the official CELEX (Communitatis Europeae Lex) database as well as expert commentary, providing legal and research professionals access to European legislation.
In the world of international law there has never been a greater need for accurate information to help organizations make key decisions fast. With the multitude of regulatory developments that can impact your organization and affect the day-to-day decisions, Eurolaw will assist your decision-making by keeping you up-to-date on:
- new legislation
- amended legislation
- court rulings and directional statements
- regulatory guidelines
- policy statements and opinion
Considering over 500 new pieces of legislation are produced each month in the European Union (EU), Eurolaw is a critical service for any organization operating in the EU.
Eurolaw Benefits
With full and accurate knowledge of European legislation as well as additional content sourced from various complementary publications, this centralized resource can result in significant expenditure savings.
With Eurolaw, you can:
- Keep track of the vast number of legislative changes that occur each year
- Control the costs of researching, and managing your legal compliance obligations
- Overcome the amorphous and unstructured nature of internet searches that raise more questions than provide answers
- Bring together the multitude of European legal information sources into a single manageable resource
Eurolaw CELEX and more!
Eurolaw is assembled from multiple official sources and combines a vast array of documentation in the one easy-to-use service.
Widely acclaimed for its ease of use and additions to the CELEX database, the Eurolaw service includes original documents in up to 8 languages:
- the Treaties establishing the EU
- the Directives, Regulations and preparatory documents with consolidated texts
- national implementation details and links to the full text of UK Statutory Instruments
- European Court of Justice and First instance decisions
- Parliamentary questions
- data from the Information and Notices section of the Official Journal C Series
- data from the Information and Notices section of the Official Journal L Series
- Judgments from the European Court of Human Rights
- the weekly Bulletin of the Courts of Justice and links to the Official Journal in electronic format in all the published languages
- COM docs back to January 1998
- links to tabular data back to 1995
- links from the CE Marking Directives to bibliographic records of the relevant Standards required to attain the CE Mark
- Missing tables - allowing proper interpretation where other versions of CELEX omit these
Eurolaw Sectors Covered
Sector 1 Treaties
Sector 2 External Relations
Sector 3 Directives and Regulations
Sector 4 Supplementary Legislation
Sector 5 Proposed Legislation
Sector 6 Case Law
Sector 7 Member Countries’ implementation details
Sector 9 Parliamentary Questions
Sector 10 C Series of the Official Journal
Sector 11 European Court of Human Rights
How Eurolaw Works
Eurolaw has been specially designed to allow for any level of user, from the novice student to the professional database user. With Eurolaw you can locate legislation using many different fields, depending on the piece of information you hold. You can search by:
- Number
- Title
- Text
- Document Type
- Official Journal (OJ) Reference
- or any combination of these
Eurolaw even allows for searching by colloquialisms such as the ‘VDU Directive’.
With on-screen instructions at every stage and a convenient ‘quick guide’ Eurolaw is extremely simple to use.
You can monitor your own lists of legislation, and once made you will receive an email each month detailing which legislation has been amended.
Your important searches can be saved and Eurolaw will automatically email you when your search terms are enacted in a new piece of legislation.
To assist with contextual understanding of legislation, Eurolaw makes use of extensive hyperlinking between related records.
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