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Researching
EU Legislation
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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.
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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
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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 - 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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