EUR-Lex

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EUR-Lex

Open access

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EUR-Lex provides free access, in the 24 official EU languages, to:

• the Official Journal of the European Union from the 1950s onwards;
• all EU legislation, whether in force or not, including the Treaties, directives, regulations, decisions and consolidated legislation, with status information, and transposition details for directives;
• preparatory acts: legislative proposals, reports, green and white papers, etc.;
• EU cases: judgments, opinions and orders;
• international agreements;
• EFTA documents.

EUR-Lex also tracks ongoing legislative procedures and provides summaries of legislation.

The database is updated daily and contains more than 3 million items, with some texts dating back to 1951. 

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