EUR-Lex: Access to European Law

EUR-Lex provides free access to European Union law and other documents considered to be public.

The website is available in 23 official languages of the European Union; choose your preferred language from the language bar at the top of the homepage.

The contents of the site amount to some 2 815 000 documents with texts dating back to 1951. The database is updated daily and every year around 12 000 documents are added.

EUR-Lex offers:

• daily editions of the Official Journal of the European Union online,

• simple search, advanced search and browsing options,

• the possibility to display and/or download documents (PDF, HTML, DOC, TIFF),

• analytical metadata for each document.