EU Legal Databases: an overview Ian Mayfield, University of Portsmouth

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EU Legal Databases: an overview Ian Mayfield, University of Portsmouth

Overview of session Eur-Lex: official legislative database Summaries of legislation: SCADplus OEIL and Pre-Lex: tracking progress of legislation Other useful sources A look at commercial sources

Eur-Lex: background Celex - 1967 - French only Public 1981 - English 1982 - web late 90s Mainly fee-based - source of commercial services e.g. Context, ILI ‘Openness & transparency’ - 2004 Celex free ‘New EUR-Lex’ launched November 2004 Celex not updated after 2004 - withdrawn December 2006 Cobbetts 14/10/2008 3

Eur-Lex: Contents Official Journal L & C (pdf 1998 →) Proposed, current & withdrawn legislation Directory of Legislation in Force COMdocs (1999 →) Cases (1954 → but incomplete) Parliamentary questions Background information / links 4

Eur-Lex: Functionality Chronological access to OJ, COM docs, cases Browse legislation via Directory of Legislation in Force Simple and advanced search Simple search by number, reference, sector or use general search Search histories and saved searches Bilingual display

Eur-Lex: still to come LexAlert (e-mail updates) Personal profile (saved searches) Search case law by party

OEIL The EP’s ‘Legislative Observatory’ Covers procedures dating from start of 4th Parliamentary session in July 1994 Tracks procedure through legislative stages Identifies ‘actors’ Outlines background and history of the legislation Identifies documentation Personal alerts through ‘Observatory tracker’ Simple and advanced search Now has fact sheets outlining financial, socio- economic and environmental impacts

PreLex Commission website (now managed by Official Publications Office) ‘Monitoring the legislative process’ Introduced in late ’90s but has data back to 1976 Similar to OEIL but has No histories or background material More links to documentation More search options relating to institutional structure

Other useful sources SCADplus: summaries of legislation Document registers Merger cases

Why use commercial sources? Reliability Content Add-ins e.g. merger cases, press releases, register documents, EFTA docs, implementation… Value added e.g. commentaries, notes, nicknames etc. Added functionality e.g. linking, cross-searching, profiles Support

Commercial sources - examples OJ Online (Ellis), OJ Daily (Justis), Eurolaw (SAI Global), Celex (Justis), Lawtel, Westlaw (Ellis), Justis EU Caselex (Justis), EU Competition Law Online (Ellis) European Sources Online (Cardiff University)