1. Bodleian Law Library Sources of EU Information Online Margaret Watson Angela Carritt

2. Bodleian Law Library 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

3. Bodleian Law Library 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

4. Bodleian Law Library 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

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8. 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

9. Bodleian Law Library 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

10. Bodleian Law Library 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

11. Bodleian Law Library When searching by terms the following connectors apply: “my search phrase” = Phrase searching Word, word = OR Word + word = AND * =Truncation symbol EurLex search screens allow searches on: document number OJ reference search terms but you can’t combine these search terms

12. Bodleian Law Library Not full text but... Bibliographic details Legislative history Related documents Full Text

13. Bodleian Law Library 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)

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16. Directory of Legislation in Force - Analytical Structure

17. Bodleian Law Library Directory of Legislation in Force - Alphabetical Structure

18. Bodleian Law Library 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

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20. Connectors Words must be entered in the order in which they appear. AND is assumed between words

21. Bodleian Law Library Timeline of events

22. Bodleian Law Library Links to documents produced by the Commission Links to documents produced by the Economic And Social Committee

23. Bodleian Law Library Links to documents Produced by the European Parliament

24. Bodleian Law Library OEIL http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/dors/oeil/en/defa ult.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)

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26. To search by document number To search by search terms

27. Bodleian Law Library PE Doc A5-0333/2002

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29. Bodleian Law Library 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

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31. To search for full text cases

32. Bodleian Law Library Unreliable - if you can’t find your case use the “Words in Text” option Connectors OR at all times %= truncation symbol

33. Bodleian Law Library Opinion of the Advocate General Judgment

34. Bodleian Law Library To access the Directory of Cases

35. Bodleian Law Library Link to other parts of the Europa website for further details or the full text

36. Bodleian Law Library Eurolaw Information provided by Celex Eurolaw adds keywords and its own search engine Access via Oxlip Requires a password from outside the Oxford domain

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39. Do not include any letters e.g. don’t use COM, SEC, FINAL etc Connectors: AND OR NOT If you do not use a connector treated as a phrase ? - replaces a single letter * - truncation symbol WITHIN n = must occur within n words where n is a number

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41. Bodleian Law Library Bibliographic section and details from Celex Number.

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43. Bodleian Law Library Further information... Related documents Important dates...

44. Bodleian Law Library 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

45. Bodleian Law Library EU Legislation option includes preparatory docs

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47. Westlaw Case Law –Common Market Law Reports, 1962-, – ECJ & CFI cases, 1954- Legislation –Treaties –Secondary Legislation Preparatory Documents

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50. 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-