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Researching EU Law
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How do I
find EU legislation if I
only know the subject
matter?
Free web sources
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EUR-Lex -
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm
- select
Simple Search
and then
Search Terms.
Enter your terms
in the box.
Alternatively
from the home
page of EUR-Lex,
under
Collections
there is a link
to
Legislation in
force.
This is an
online version
of the
Directory of
Community
Legislation in
Force and is
arranged by
subject. |
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Summaries of EU
legislation -
http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/index_en.htm
- this site
provides
summaries of
European
legislation,
divided into 32
subject areas.
There are links
to EUR-Lex for
full text
documents. |
Hard copy
sources
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Directory of
Community
Legislation in
Force - 20
chapters based
on subjects;
vol. 2 has a
subject index.
The electronic
version on
EUR-Lex has
links to the
online OJ L
series. Please
note that the
hard copy
version of the
Directory
stopped
publication in
2004. |
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Encyclopaedia of
European
Community Law -
arranged with
broad subject
headings¹ |
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Halsbury's Laws
volumes 51 & 52
(fourth edition)
- use the
subject indexes
in the volumes |
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held at
Gray's Inn,
Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple Libraries |
Subscription-based
databases
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Justis EU - fill
in
Document Type
box and search
terms in the
Full Text
box. |
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Lawtel EU - from
the
Adopted
Legislation
option, enter
your subject
terms in the
search box. |
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Lexis Library -
from the
European Union
database, select
Legislation and
Regulations
and enter your
search terms in
the
Search
box. |
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Westlaw UK -
select the
EU database;
enter search
terms in
Free Text
box. |
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