1. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Information search EU Law 2012-04-03 Erik Åkesson Photo: looking4poetrylooking4poetry

2. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Treaty of Lisbon Before the Treaty of Lisbon: Three pillar structure EC law After Lisbon: EU law

3. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Types of documents Sector 1: Primary law – treaties Sector 2: International agreements Sector 3: Secondary law – legislative acts adopted by the organisations Sector 6: Case law

4. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Sources EUR-Lex Pre-Lex Oeil – legal observatory Curia

5. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Primary law EU Treaty (Maastricht Treaty) Functioning Treaty - Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (EC Treaty, Rome Treaty) Euratom Treaty Amending treaties Treaty of Lisbon – new amending treaty Treaties in EUR-LexEUR-Lex

6. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Secondary law Regulations Directives Decisions Recommendations and Opinions

7. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Legislative process COM-documents legislative proposals from the Commission Ordinary procedure Special procedures

8. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Official Journal Decisions are published in the Official Journal Series L: legislation Series C: information and notices

9. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Ways of referencing the acts Data Retention Directive Directive on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks 2006/24/EC (document number, after Lisbon: 2010/18/EU) 32006L0024 (CELEX number) OJ L 105, 13.4.2006, p. 54-63

10. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Case law Court of Justice (1953-) General Court (Court of first instance) (1989-) Civil service tribunal (2005-) www.curia.eu

11. 2012.03.30Erik Åkesson Literature References to commentary in the bibliographic notice in EUR-Lex Library catalogues (JULIA, LIBRIS) Article databases (Westlaw International, Google Scholar)