European information by theme: websites and databases
Survey by theme of a selection of websites and databases fto search information on and provided by the European Union.
Starting points
- Europe Homepage
Gateway to the European Union includes- Policy areas, offers a survey of the EU policy areas, including a brief description of the policy area, links to EU institutions and bodies, legislation and documentation
- EU institutions and organizations includes information on and links to the websites of the institutions and organizations
- Publications and documentation offers links to EU-documents, legislation, statistics, historical documents and opinion polls
- A-Z index alphabetical index on the pages of the Europe website
- European E-jusitce
Portal containing information on jusitce (legislation, case law, judicial systems, legal practice) in the European Union and the member states, Target groups:citizens, business, legal practitioners and judiciary.
Economic issues
- EU Gateway: Policy areas - offers a brief description of the policy area, links to EU institutions and bodies, legislation and documentation.
- European Commission: Policy areas - provides references per policy area to relevant pages on the website of the Commission
- Business - industry, enterprise policiesy, small and medium-sized enterprises, internal market, free movement of services, competitiveness
- Economy, finance and tax - single market, budget, competition, customs, economy, combating of fraud, and taxation
- EU tenders and contracts - information on EU tenders and public contracts. Current tenders can be found in the database TED
Social issues and environment
- EU Gateway: Policy areas - offers a brief description of the policy area, links to EU institutions and bodies, legislation and documentation.
- European Commission: Policy areas - provides references per policy area to relevant pages on the website of the Commission
- Employment and social rights - employment, social rights and equal opportunities
- Environment, consumers and health - consumer affairs, environment, food safety, health, maritime policy, sustainable development
- EIROnline
Database of European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) offering news and analysis on European industrial relations - Social Dialogue texts database
Database with documents and agreements made in various sectors of industry in the field of employment and industrial relations.
Treaties
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European Union: Treaty texts
Overview of the founding treaties, including the full official texts - Texts of treaties via EUR-Lex
The basic legal texts on which the EU is founded, amending Ttreaties, the accession treaties, and essential documents - Treaty Office Database
Database containing the texts of all bilateral and multilateral treaties or agreements concluded by the European Union with third parties (does not include founding treaties and treaties between member states). - Institutional reform of the European Union
Web page with information on on the latest developments of the European Union institutional reform - The European Union Constitution
Information on the European constitutional process, bringing together facts, official documents, analysis, bibliographies, links and other resources relevant to the main steps in this process - Charter of fundamental rights
Text, context, links and bibliography - Schengen Joint Supervisory Authority (JSA)
Contains legislation, links, news, opinions, Schengen Information System (SIS).
Legislation
European legislation:
- EUR-Lex
Access to European Union law: legislation, case law and documents related to the decision-making - Prelex
Database of the European Commission on inter-institutional proceduresfollows the major stages of the decision-making process between the Commission and the other institutions .
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Legislative Observatory (OEIL)
Database of the European parliament with an overview of interinstitutional legislative procedures and the European Parliament's input into those procedures .
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N-Lex
The joint gateway for the national law of the EU-member states - from this page you can access the official databases of national laws - Europapoort
Information about the new procedure on the European policy and legislative process in the Dutch Senate
Case law
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EUR-Lex
Access to European Union law: legislation, case law and documents related to the decision-making -
Curia
Case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union as from 1997. -
Annotations of judgements
Annotations by legal commentators relating to the judgments delivered by the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal since those courts were first established . These references are also included as bibliographic notices with the judgments in EUR-Lex, under the header 'doctrine'. -
Dec. Nat. - National Decisions
Database containing some 20,600 references to national decisions concerning Community law from 1959 up to the present day. - DG Competition
Website of the Directorate-General Competition of the Commission, offering the decisions in EU competition cases (e.g. antitrust, mergers, cartels) and collection of judgments rendered by their national courts involving the application of EC competition rules in anti-trust cases.
Literature
- Archive of European Integration (AEI)
Online repository and archive for research materials (reports, articles and official EU documents) on the topic of European integration and unification - ECLAS
Central Library catalogue of the European Union Commission. - European Integration Current Contents
Access to the tables of contents of journals relevant in European Integration research - law, human rights, economics, history and political sciences - Library European
University Institute
Library of the European University Institute in Florenceoffering important collections in the field of European integration - EU Bookshop
Online access offered by the Publications Office of the European Union to the European Union’s official publications - Library Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Catalogue of Max Planck research institute, also contains many references to European law publications.
Statistical data
- Eurostat
Website of the EU statistical office, offers access to all Eurostat data and publications. - EU-Statistics and polls
Survey page with links to statistics on the EU and opinion polls. - Economic databases and indicators
Web page of Directorate-General for Economic and Financial affairs with access to databases and documents with macro-economic analyses. .
Reference works
- Inter Active Terminology for Europe (IATE)
EU inter-institutional terminology database: digital dictionary with terminology in the languages of the European Union member states
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Eurovoc
Multilingual thesaurus. - EU Whoiswho
Names and addresses of staff of the European Union institutions. - Register of Expert Groups
Register listing formal and informal advisory bodies established either by Commission decisions or informally by the Commission services. The advisory bodies assist in preparing legislative proposals and policy initiatives. -
Comitology register
Register containing background information and documents relating to the work of committees assisiting the Commission to implement EU legislation, including all documents forwarded to the EU Parliament for information or scrutiny.
Topical issues
Information via the EU:
- EU Press Room
Press releases of the EU institutions.
Here the database Rapid is found, which can be searched for (even older) press releases. - What’s new on Europa
A selection of the latest updates on the websites of EU institutions and bodies.
- EurActive
Media portal fully dedicated to EU affairs: news, policy and discussions EU policy areas. EurActive offers e-mail newsletter. - Euobserver
News and comments on the EU. Euobserver offers RSS feeds and free subscription to newsletter by e-mail. - ThePaliament.com
News, information on activities of theEuropean Parliament and other EU institutions, offering RSS feeds en subscribtion to e-mail bulletins (see: Free Bulletins)
Search engines
Besides search engineslike Google, AlltheWeb and Altavista there also are specialized search engines as aid for finding EU information:
- Search Europe
Searching only official European Union (europa.eu) web pages with Google. It is possible to limit search to legal information (law search) on the EU-sites. - Google Scholar
Search engine for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed articles, reports, books and theses. Data originate from sites of publishers, preprint archives and universities. Titles contain links to literature citations ("Cited by ..."). - Scirius
Scientific research tool on the web, searching in over 370 million scientific sources such as journals, scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository.
