1. STRATEGIES For EU Legal Research

2. Fundamental Source The EU Glossary http://europa.eu/scadplus/glossary/index_en.htm (Access from the documents tab on the main Europa page.) http://europa.eu/scadplus/glossary/index_en.htm

6. If you want to peruse in subject categories… SCADPlus Commission’s alphabetical index Commission Library’s catalog Panoramas

7. SCADPlus This source summarizes and links to legislation. It doesn’t get you to every possible underlying document. http://europa.eu/scadplus/scad_en.htm http://europa.eu/scadplus/scad_en.htm

18. So, that’s how you get from SCADPlus to the law. Now…

19. The Commission’s Alphabetical Index http://eurunion.org/infores/eu_a.htm http://eurunion.org/infores/eu_a.htm (Actually, there are two.)

21. This one is managed by the the Commission’s library in the U.S.

24. This one is managed by the Commission headquarters in Brussels.

26. Both alphabets get you to similar pages. If one doesn’t have a listing that helps you, go to the other alphabetical index.

27. If you click on “air quality” in one index, you get…

29. The other alphabet lists “air quality data” and “air quality legislation” as two separate entries.

31. If you click on the legislation link, You land in Eur-Lex.

33. So, those alphabetical lists are easy to browse and can get you to either primary or contextual information pretty efficiently.

34. The Commission Libraries Catalog http://ec.europa.eu/eclas/F

40. Panoramas Under the activities tab on http://www.europa.eu.int http://www.europa.eu.int click on topic, then choose “panorama.”

44. If you click on one of those summaries of legislation, you get to the SCAD-Plus material.

49. If you scroll down through a Panorama page, you can jump into the law.

59. If you are not searching by subject…

60. Use the Index to Information Sources http://europa.eu/geninfo/info/index_en.htm http://europa.eu/geninfo/info/index_en.htm Under the services tab on the main Europa page.

64. Notice that this legislation list is the ONE place where you can see simple one-line distinctions between the various sources of EU legislative information

65. The Official Journals (EU version of government gazette) The “C series” of the journal has communications such as minutes of the Parliament, decisions and resolutions of the institutions, and government notices. The “CA series” is an annex with additions to legislation and job ads. The “CE series” has major Commission proposals and the Commission’s answers to questions. The “L series” contains the text of legislation.

66. Use the Official Journal when you are monitoring legal developments by topic or agency.

68. Bulletin This is also chronological and it also has information from all of the EU lawmaking bodies.

74. EUR-Lex Is the route to primary law in force and in-progress.

86. For legislation in progress or legislative history You can choose between Pre-Lex and OEIL (the Legislative Observatory)

87. Pre-Lex includes more Council and Commission documents… But you cannot distinguish between them because Pre-Lex merely names them. If you already know about a source, start with Pre-Lex.

88. OEIL has commentary about each stage of the legislative procedure. If you haven’t already learned about particular stages of a law’s development, start here and then look to Pre-Lex to fill-in any gaps that might exist for a particular stage.

97. Document Registers Council, Commission, and Parliament each have document registers.

99. Use those when you have exhausted the ordinary Eur-Lex offerings. Even if you don’t have a document number, you can investigate internal reports or find other background information as long as you can describe the issue and relate it to eventual legislation.

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