Communitatis Europeae Lex
CELEX | |
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Url | http://eur-lex.europa.eu/ (embedded) |
providers | Publications Office of the EC |
languages | All official languages of the EU |
Content | EU legislation |
Communitatis Europeae Lex ( CELEX ) is one of the oldest legal databases and is the predecessor of EUR-Lex .
CELEX has the following contents:
- Legislation (contracts, derived law, etc.)
- Jurisprudence
- Preparatory Acts
- Parliamentary questions ( European Parliament )
history
1965 is the year the data collection CELEX was created. It was opened to the public in 1981. In 1992, CELEX was transferred from the Commission to the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities . The entries in the CELEX database have been transferred to the EUR-Lex database since the end of 2004, so the CELEX database is no longer updated and offered.
Due to the transparency policy within the European Union , a solution had to be found so that the citizens of the European Union have free access to the documents of the European Union. In addition, the CELEX database had to be made more user-friendly, so that the EUR-Lex database was created. The complete documents that were published in the CELEX database can now be called up in the EUR-Lex database in a much more user-friendly manner.
CELEX not only contains legal acts, but also includes supplementary documents - preliminary legislative work, case law documents and parliamentary questions - which serve to provide a comprehensive understanding of the provisions of Community law.
Document number
The CELEX document number is also still used in the current database of the European Union EUR-Lex . Each individual document is clearly identified by the so-called document number, which is the same for all official languages.
- For example, a typical document number looks like this:
21999L0055
Here, 2
the area number , 1999
the four-digit year number , L
the code for the document type ( L
= directive) and 0055
the number of the act (four digits, three digits for contracts, padded with leading zeros).
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- Database EUR-Lex
- Detailed explanation of the document number of CELEX from the Internet Archive accessed on January 25, 2017 ( original source )
- Press release from the Office for Official Publications on the subject of "25 years of European law online" from 23 November 2006