Comparative and foreign law

EUR-Lex contains the founding, amending and accession treaties, as well as some protocols.

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.)

Documents used to prepare EU legislation, produced during the various stages of the legislative and budgetary process.

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.

Follow the life cycle of a legislative proposal from the moment it is launched until the final law is adopted.

Official website of the European Parliament.

Refer to this guide for explanations of how to cite European Union caselaw.

Available in hardcopy in the Library as as well as online via HeinOnline.

Search for decisions of the European Union courts. Full-text unreported versions available from 1997. Decisions fully indexed from 1953.

Available in hardcopy in the library and online via Westlaw International.

It drafts proposals for new European laws and it manages the day-to-day business of implementing EU policies and spending EU funds.

Responsible for deciding broad political priorities and major initiatives.

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.

Manages the euro — the EU's single currency — and safeguards price stability in the EU.

Ensuring EU law is interpreted and applied the same in every EU country; ensuring countries and EU institutions abide by EU law.

Audits EU finances.