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European Union

This article provides an overview of the major institutions of the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe, highlighting their roles and functions. It also explains the different types of legal documents and how to access them for research purposes.

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European Union

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  1. European Union

  2. Don’t confuse the EU/EC with the Council of Europe… The European flag represents both the Council of Europe and the European Union to strengthen the idea of solidarity between the different organizations for a united and democratic Europe .

  3. Major Council of Europe Institutions Major European Union Institutions Committee of Ministers (ministers of foreign affairs from each member state)  Council of the European Union or Council of Ministers (member state representatives, usually foreign affairs ministers) European Commission (elected members) European Council (member state heads of state) Parliamentary Assembly (appointed or elected members) European Parliament (elected members) European Court of Human Rights European Court of Justice European Commission of Human Rights Economic & Social Committee Congress of Local & Regional Authorities Committee of the Regions

  4. EU Law Making Institutions • European Commission • European Council • European Parliament • Court of Justice The Commission proposes legislation and policies, the Council approves legislation and can propose legislation of its own, and the Parliament gives its opinion on proposals, amended proposals, and addresses questions to the Commission. The Court of Justice enforces the legislation under the Treaties.

  5. Other major EU/EC institutions European Court of Auditors European Ombudsman European Data Protection Supervisor European Central Bank European Investment Bank –European Investment Fund European Economic and Social Committee Committee of the Regions

  6. UGA is one of the few law libraries to hold EU depository status • Emory's main and law libraries share their EU depository collection

  7. Europa – official sitehttp://europa.eu

  8. CommonTypes of documents • Treaties (Primary Legislation) • Secondary Legislation • Case Law • proposals, reports, press releases, etc.

  9. Primary Legislation = Treaties • Founding Treaties • Consolidated Versions • Accession Treaties • Other Treaties

  10. Secondary Legislation: • Regulations • Directives • Decisions • Recommendations

  11. Use this to get to EUR-Lex, the EU legal database

  12. EUR-Lex Free -access from anywhere - no password needed http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm EUR-Lex is your portal to EU law

  13. If you have an O.J. citation, and it’s from 1998 to present, go here

  14. Official Journal of the European Union roughly the equivalent of the U.S. Federal Register • "L" series = final texts of legislation • "C" series = notices, reports, proposed legislation For many documents, the Bluebook will want you to cite to the Official Journal

  15. “L” # and page # Official Journal PDFs available in EUR-Lex

  16. Use this search box if you have citation to O.J. and it's 1998 or later Use if O.J. volume is prior to '98 (selected full text); if not here, use the print O.J. in the Basement Browse O.J. by year from 1998-current

  17. EUR-Lex Simple Search Screen

  18. Infant formulae

  19. General EURLex “Search Terms” searching beer

  20. EURLex biblio page O.J. cite formats available relevant dates search terms

  21. even more EURLex biblio page legislative history citator function relevant domestic law

  22. Index providing subject access to EU legislation

  23. Consolidated Legislation integration of basic instruments, along with amendments and corrections, into single, non-official documents access via the Directory of Community Legislation or at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/legis/avis_consolidation.htm

  24. Useful summaries of EU legislation by subject

  25. The Commission's documents are initially issued as "COM docs" while final versions of most docs end up in the O.J.

  26. Broad subject areas Where you’ll find merger and antitrust cases

  27. Commission page on “competition”

  28. PreLex tracks pending legislation http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/apcnet.cfm?CL=en

  29. The Legislative Observatory on EuroParl http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/index.jsp?language=en Like Prelex, this site is useful for tracking pending legislation

  30. What are "white papers" - documents containing proposals for EU action in a specific policy area What are "green papers" - discussion papers published by the Commission on a specific policy area; often precede a White Paper These are issued as COM docs; we have paper thru early 2000s, also available online at http://europa.eu/documents/comm/white_papers/index_en.htm and http://europa.eu/documents/comm/green_papers/index_en.htm

  31. CURIA: ECJ’s site http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/ To get to search form Note: you can’t always get the necessary citation information from the Court’s site. EUR-Lex provides citation information

  32. Search form on the court’s site But note date restriction beer

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