Justis CELEX – Data

The official legal database of the European Union

The data in CELEX is provided by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, and coverage starts at 1951. They are taken from the principal institutions of the European Union: the Commission, Council, Parliament and Court of Justice.

Justis CELEX contains the following data Sectors (all in full text, unless otherwise stated):

Sector 1: Treaties

The Treaties establishing the European Communities, with accompanying articles, protocols, annexes and declarations, the Treaties of Accession of new Member States, and those Treaties that amend or supplement the founding Treaties.

Sector 2: External Agreements

Agreements between the European Union and member and non-member states and other legal acts resulting from external relations maintained by the European Union.

Sector 3: Secondary Legislation

Secondary legislation adopted by the Council, the Commission and the Parliament to implement EU policy. It includes binding legislation: Regulations, Directives and Decisions based on Article 189 of the Treaty of Rome, Article 161 of the EAEC Treaty and Article 14 of the ECSC Treaty. It also includes non-binding legislation: recommendations and opinions, as well as merger decisions, texts of consolidated legislation, resolutions and general programmes of work to be undertaken.

Sector 4: Supplementary Legislation

Complementary legislation created by agreements between Member States and decisions of the Member States meeting in Council.

Sector 5: Proposed Legislation

Commission proposals for future legislation from the Official Journal C Series (known as COM DOCS), together with opinions on those proposals by the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee, the Court of Auditors and the Committee of the Regions, from 1995.

Sector 6: Case Law

The full text of all judgments, orders, opinions and other acts issued by the European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance, as well as the opinions of the Advocates-General.

Sector 7: National Implementation

References to national measures enacted by Member States in order to put into effect the directives of the European Union.

The UK Implementations field in the European Union’s version of CELEX is not always kept up to date. Justis Publishing checks the implementing references for the United Kingdom and the Implementing SIs field, which is added by Justis Publishing, includes references to UK Statutory Instruments (SIs) that are missing from the UK Implementations field and corrected versions of any erroneous references. It may also include comments on the relevance and chronology of some of the references.

Justis Publishing has also added another field – Related SIs – containing legislation which does not strictly speaking implement a Directive but contains relevant information about the Directive.

Subscribers to UK Statutory Instruments on Justis can also link directly from CELEX to the full text of cited Statutory Instruments using the J-Link automatic linking feature.

Sector 9: Parliamentary Questions

Summaries of questions, both written and oral, raised by members of the European Parliament to the institutions of the European Union, particularly the Commission (the full text of questions and their answers is contained in the Official Journal C Series).

Sector C: OJC Documents

Documents published in the Official Journal C between 1995 and 1999 (documents from 1990 are contained in the Official Journal C Series).

Sector E: EFTA Documents

Documents from the institutions of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), including Acts in the framework of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) that have been published in the Official Journal.