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Researching EU Law
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How do I find
out if EU legislation
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the UK?
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Free web sources
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EUR-Lex - http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm - once you have found the document, select Bibliographic Notice; under Relationship between documents there is an option to Display national execution measures. EUR-Lex may not have the implementation details so do not assume that if there are no details that the legislation has not been implemented. Try the other sources listed below.
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European Commission website - http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm. Find the Directorate-General responsible for the Directive via Departments and Services and see if there is any information about implementation.
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EC Legislation Implementator (part of Halsbury's Statutory Instruments) - issued annually. Covers only UK implementation of Directives. It is arranged chronologically by Directive number.
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Halsbury's Laws volumes 51 & 52 (fourth edition) - details of implementation are included in the footnotes.
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Current Law Monthly parts - in each part there is a section on European Legislation Implemented by Statutory Instruments. |
Subscription-based databases
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Justis EU - select Celex from the Data Sources list and tick National Implementation. Fill in other details.
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Lawtel EU - the summary information gives details of implementing measures.
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Lexis Library -
within the European Union database, there is an option for National Provisions Implementing Directives.
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Westlaw UK - once you have found the document in the EU database, select National Measures from the Document Outline options. |
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