Full text of legislative acts of the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, and the European Commission reported in the Official Journal of the European Community, L Series from 1952 onwards.
The official compendium of EU legislation (L series) and other official documents of the EU institutions, bodies and agencies (C series and its supplements).
Search for or browse for binding legal instruments (regulations, directives and decisions), non-binding instruments (resolutions, opinions), or other instruments (EU institutions’ internal regulations, EU action programmes, etc.)
The “Summaries of EU legislation” website presents the main aspects of European Union (EU) legislation in a concise, easy-to-read and unbiased way. It provides approximately 3 000 summaries of European legislation, divided into 32 subject areas corresponding to the activities of the European Union.
Contains full-text judgements from 1954 (for the Court of the European Communities), 1989 (for the Court of First Instance of the European Communities) and 1985 (for the C Series of the Official Journal).
Passes EU laws, signs agreements, develops the EU's foreign and defence policies, approves the EU budget, coordinates economic policies and co-operation.
The European Parliament has three main roles — debating and passing European laws, with the Council; scrutinising other EU institutions, particularly the Commission, to make sure they are working democratically; and debating and adopting the EU's budget, with the Council.