Research Guide to International Law on the Internet
European Union
Getting Started
Foreword:You will find listed below some guides very useful
to get information about the structure and policies of the EU, as well
as to know how to search for documents and other resources on the European
integration wich are not on-line.
Europa Guide
European Union Basics-FAQ
(Roland Siebelink)
Euroguides
by the North London EDC
Exeter:
Guide to European Community Publications
Sheffield:
Guide to European Law Materials
EDC of the University
of Tilburg - This site contains an excellent guide in French and English.
The Nuts and
Bolts of European Union Law Research (Cornell Law Library) - A very
useful guide by Jean Wenger. It provides a very complete information on
the major resource available on and off line to research for European Union
legal materials.
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EU Institutions
| Commission | Commission
related sites | Parliament
| Other Bodies |
Warning: Take into account that there are a number of EU web
servers ( Europa, I'M
Europe, CORDIS, ISPO)
and it is possible to undertake a subject search simultaneously of all
of them using EUROPE-INDEX
Europa: This is the official homepage
of the European Union. Here you can find: The
European Union: a historical achievement / The
Union's policies / On the
political agenda / Next
steps to integration / Newsroom
/ WWW
servers in EU
Offices in the World / The
Union's Institutions / On
the record / Nearest contact
points / Official Documents
from the Union / Governments
on-line / Publications
/ On Line Services
/ Statistics.
IDEA: This is the interinstitutional
directory of the EU which comprises the directories of the various Union
institutions.
Commission
Commission homepage
on "Europa"
Directorates General
DG
Ia: External Relations: Europe and New Independent States, External Policy
and Common Security
DG II: Economic
and Financial Affairs
DG IV: Competition
DG V: Employment,
Industrial Relations and Social Affairs
DG VIII: Development
DG X: Information.
Communication, Culture, Audiovisual
DG XI: Environment,
Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection
DG XII: Science,
Research and Development
DG XIII: Telecommunications,
Information Market and Exploitation of Research
DG XIV: Fisheries
DG XV: Internal
Market and Financial Services
DG XVI: Regional
Policies and Cohesion
DG XVII: Energy
DG XIX: Budgets
DG XXII: Education,
Training and Youth
DG XXIII: Enterprise
Policy, Distributive Trades, Tourism and Cooperatives
DG XXIV: Consumer
Policy
Commission's Representations
Denmark|
Finland| Mexico|
Netherlands| Portugal|
Spain| USA
(New York)| USA (Washington)|
Commission related sites
Spokesman's Service
The host ECHO -- I*m Europe of DG
XIII: Information for the European electronic information services market
and multimedia content industries.
CEO Centre for Earth Observation
JRC Joint Research Centre
ECHO European Commission
Host Organization
LAB Legal Advisory
Board for the Information Market
ENRICH European Network for Research
in Global Change
ESPRIT European Strategic
Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology
EUREKA.
EUROBASES
European Union Public Databases manages access to the public databases
of the European Union: ABEL, CELEX, ECLAS, EUROCRON, INFO92, OIL, RAPID,
SCAD, SESAME.
EUR-OP Office
for Official Publications of the European Communities.
EUROSTAT
Statistical Office of the European Communities.
ECHO European
Community Humanitarian Office
CORDIS Community Research and Development
Information Service - This site contains some information on the CORDIS
database services available through telnet and dial-up connections.
IMPACT Information
Market Policy Actions Programme
ISPO Information Society Project Office
- It is intended to "support, promote and orient private and public
actions in the field of the information society". At present, it contains
some useful pointers to other information sources and acts as a primary
site for information on conference and seminar events.
JICS Joint
Interpreting and Conference Service
Parliament
European
Parliament 
It is the
new multilingual Web Server of the Parliament (at the present moment, in
English, French and German). There is an alternative
server
European Parliament's Document Exchange
Server
The European
Ombudsperson's Homepage .
EPISTEL Press releases
by the European Parliament
Other Bodies
Committee of the Regions
Economic and Social Committee.
There is an alternative server.
European Monetary Institute
(EMI)
Court of Auditors
Court of Justice
- At the Court's site you
can find in 11 languages the following sections: "Introduction to
the institution", "Proceedings of the Court of Justice",
"Publications of the Court of Justice", "Press releases",
"General information". Unfortunately, the section "Recent
case-law (in full)" is already announced but not yet implemented.
However, about the Court's proceedings here you can get an information
updated to the last 7/10 days.
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EU-Related Agencies, Centres and Institutes
ACEM Cooperation
Agency for the Europe of the Sea
BERD European Bank of Reconstruccion
and Development
CEDEFOP European Centre for the Development
of Vocational Training
CERN European Laboratory for Particle
Physics
CEO Centre for Earth Observation
EAC European
Astronaut Centre
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range
Weather Forecasts
EEA European Environment Agency
EI Environment Institute
EMEA European Agency for the
Evaluation of Medicinical Products
EMBL European Molecular Biology
Laboratory
EPO European Patent Office
ESA European Space Agency
ESA European Space Agency - Publications
Division
ESA European Space Agency - Villafranca
Satellite Tracking Station
ESO European Southern Observatory
ESOC European Space Operations Centre
ESRIN European
Space Research Institute
ESTEC European Space Research and
Technology Centre
ETF European Training Foundation
EUI European University Institute, Florence
European Topic
Centre on Inland Waters
Euratom
Supply Agency
IAM Institute for Advanced Materials
ITU Institute
for Transuranium Elements
IPTS Institute for Prospective Technological
Studies
JET Joint European Torus
HAEC Historical Archives of the European
Communities
OHIM Office for
Harmonization in the Internal Market
STI Safety Technology Institute
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Research Institutions on the European
Integration
Center for Critical European
Studies
Center for
European Integration Studies (George Mason University)
Centre for European
Legal Studies (Cambridge University)
Centre for European Economic Research
(Mannheim)
Centre for European
Studies (U. of Hull)
Center for West European Studies
(University of Pittsburgh)
European Consortium for Political
Research (Essex)
European Community Studies
Association (ECSA-NET)
European Institute of Business Administration
European
Law Students Association (ELSA) - JurWeb
Federal Trust Research
Institute (London)
Institut Européen de l'Université
de Genève
Institute for European
Economic Policy (U. of Trier)
Mannheim Centre
for European Social Research
Research
Institute for European Affairs (Vienna)
Vienna Institute for Comparative
Economic Studies
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European Documentation Centres on the
Web
Warning: For informations about EDCs without a Web page, see
the list supplied by the Mannheim's
EDC. At the same site, look at Informations
Network of the EU to get data on Commission offices, Parliament
office, Euro-Info-Points, Euro-bookshops, Euro-Info-Centres, Depositary
Libraries, EU - staff position, Innovation Relay Centres.
Aarhus /Amsterdam
/ Bamberg
/ Basel / Berkeley
/ Cardiff / Coimbra
/ Duisburg / Durham
/ Edinburgh / Essex
/ Exeter
/ Galway
/ Glasgow
/ Hull / Keele
/ Köln /
Leiden
/ Leipzig / Lund
/ Madrid / Mannheim
/ Minho / North
London / Oulu
/ Pamplona
/ Passau / Reading
/ Salford / Sundsvall
/ Valencia / Vienna
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WWW Servers of Member States on European
Union
British policy
regarding the EU (UK & Commonwealth Foreign Office)
Union européenne
in French (Foreign Office of France)
German
Federal Government's Europe page (in German)
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Web Pages on the European Integration
Association des Etats
Généraux des Etudiants des L'Europe (AEGEE)
Centre
for Commercial Law - This
site regularly hosts comments on developments in various fields of European
law, especially Employment Law
and Corporate Tax.
Citizens First - This Page in
11 languages costitutes a part of a Commission/Parliament initiative devoted
to promote the knowledge of the EU citizens rights. To this end, it provides
information about some topics (e.g., living, working, studying in another
country of the EU).
Consumer rights
in the Single Market
Discussion
lists relating to European issues (M. Nentwich) - A very useful collection.
Education,
Formation, Universities - A student-oriented collection of the Valencia's
EDC (in English and Spanish) including Cursos
@ Europa, an useful guide on European university courses, as well as
links related to European Integration Courses, European Educational Projects,
European Universities with European Community Informations, Students Associations,
Europe and Youth.
Euroindex
(U. of Saarbrücken) A well kept collection of links.
EuroInternet
(M. Nentwich) - An excellent site, well organized and very complete, extremely
useful also (but not only!) to get up-to-date information from German-speaking
countries.
European Community Studies
Association (ECSA-NET) - This site contains a lot of useful information
for both academics and students working in the field.
Europe and the
Internet (Antero Aunesluoma) - It is not updated since 1/13/96, but
contains information about EU-Referendums in Scandinavia.
European
Documentation Centre in Mannheim - In this excellent site you can find
an extremely wide range of information and services in English and German.
European
Information Association (Manchester) - A well organized archive of
resources on the European integration. Very useful is in particular the
section on EU
policies.
European Library
(U. of Madrid) - Includes keyword search. Very useful.
European Union Internet
Resources (Sevetson) - An extensive index of links.
Europe @ Internet
- (U. of Valencia) - In English and Spanish. This side supplies a wide
range of very useful services. Highly recommended.
European Environmental
Law (U. of Maastricht) - This
excellent Web Page "is being set up to provide students, academics
and practitioners with recent case-law and materials concerning EC environmental
law".
Usenet
Newsgroup - A very complete list by the Valencia's EDC.
EU
Programs - Information from the Valencia's EDC.
EU
Programmes - Information in English and in German from the Mannheim's
EDC.
ForInt-Law's
Europe sources (Washburn University)
Francovich
and follow-up - It
is "A Survey of Cases on State Liability for Breach of European Community
Law" compiled by G.Betllem and J.Lefevere. This regularly updated
dossier "will monitor pending cases and list decided ones both by
the ECJ and national courts".
Guia
de Financiacion Comunitaria (170 Programas e Iniciativas de la Unión
Europea) - A very useful guide in Spanish (U. of Valencia).
Internet
Resources: EU Information - A wide collection of links from the Sheffiel
Hallam University.
La carrera en la Comisión
de las Comunidades Europeas - Working
in Europe. - A guide in Spanish from the Valencia's EDC.
Listserv's
- A wide and well annotated list by the Valencia's EDC.
Mobility
of Lawyers within the European Union (U. of Birmingham) - An
useful "Introduction to the EC Law on Mutual Recognition of Professional
Qualifications". Includes Texts of EC Law, Introduction to free movement
of lawyers, Free movement and the EEA, Co-ordinators of Directive 89/48/EEC,
detailed information relating to internal laws of EU and EFTA member States.
Statewatch database:
the State and civil liberties in UK and Europe - An useful searchable
database for information on Europol and Schengen Conventions as well as
on third pillar issues.
The Bangemann Commission
document, "Europe and the global information society, Recommendations
to the European Council"
WWW Virtual Library: West European
Studies (U. of Pittsbourgh)
Call for Proposals Concerning
the Intergovernmental Conference (ICG) in 1996
The European Union
and the environment policy
The EU employers' Network - Developments
in European social & employment law.
Ortelius - It is a new
experimental database on higher education in Europe sponsored by DG XXII.
Western
Europe & the European Union (Columbia University)
Women in Decision-Making
in Europe
Working
in Europe - A guide (in English and German) to job opportunities (Mannheim's
EDC).
Yahoo
search page European_Union
Young European Federalists
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Bibliographies on the European Integration
Bibliographic
Essays By Topic from European Access (U. of Colorado)
EU
Bibliography (U. of Colorado)
EU Bibliography
(Berkeley)
EU subject oriented
guides (U. of Pittsbourgh)
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Sites with EU related documents
E.U.
Agricultural Regulations Home Page - This site (not updated since September
1995) hosts general information and the E.U. Beef Export
Regulations Database.
Food
Law Pages (David J.Jukes) - This
site includes an European section containing also full text legal documents.
Full texts of ECJ judgments
in Spanish and French (U. of Valencia)
Full
text of various documents (North London EDC)
Legal Advisory Board
Homepage - This page contains links to full text documents in the area
of data protection and telecommunication policy.
NETLAW
- This Austrian site hosts
a little collection of EU legal documents mainly related to copyright issues
and data protection.
Official
Documentation - An useful collection of sources and links, including
also European Councils and the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference (U. of
Valencia)
Online
Documents in English and German - A collection of the Mannheim's EDC
including: Full texts from EU on-line databases, Treaties, Agreements,
Documents by the EU Institutions, Speeches, EU publications and Journals,
Europe in press reports, EU bibliographies and catalogs.
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Aktuelle
Materialien zur Internationalen Politik - This
collection of papers often hosts EU related studies (generally in German),
but only abstracts and table of contents are available.
Aslib
European News - Articles about Information Technology.
Boletín
Electrónico Info-Europ@ CDE - València
Bulletin of the
European Centre for Space Law
ECHO News
ECOLEX
- It is an Austrian journal with a section on Europe, including regular
surveys of ECJ case law. Full text is no longer available.
Eurobarometer
- Public opinion surveys on EU issues.
Europages - European enterprises
yearbook.
Europa 15 - Periódico
de la Representación de la Comisión Europea en España
(in Spanish).
Europe on CD - Publications
of the European Union in CD-ROM.
EUROnotas
(Office of the Commission in Mexico).
European
Community Humanitarian Office Newsletter
European
Journal of International Law - Includes
regular surveys of ECJ case law, but here you can find table of contents
only.
European
Public Law - Table
of contents and abstracts only.
European Union
News (Office of the Commission in Washington)
European Law Journal
- Contents pages only.
European
Union Newsletter for Central Europe
EUR-OP News
- Information from the EU's Publications Office.
EuroInfo (Office of the Commission
in Madrid)
Frontier-free
Europe - From DGXV, a monthly journal in all EU languages.
INFO-C -
Information on EU consumer policy in German, English and French.
InfoRegio
- A monthly newsletter on the EU's regional policy, available in 11 languages.
International Law Center
(Law Journal Extra!) - This
interesting site regularly hosts EU related news and articles, mainly on
business-related issues. Highly recommended.
Journal of Environmental Law
- Contains an annual European Case Law section.
Label
France - A magazine in French, with an index searchable by topic, very
often containing articles on the European integration.
Ladas
& Parry Newsletters - Information mainly about intellectual property
rights.
Lex Mundi World Reports
- Take a look at this interesting
review (indexed from 1989 by topic and by jurisdiction) which regularly
hosts legal materials on the European integration.
Maastricht Journal
of European and Comparative Law - Contents pages only.
News
by topic (North London EDC) - It does not provide full texts, simply
highlights EU documents received by this EDC.
Newsletter of the European
Environment Agency
Office for Official
Publications of the European Communities (EUR-OP)
OneEurope
Magazine (AEGEE)
RAVE
(U. of Düsseldorf ) - RAVE
(abbreviation of "Recherche von Artikeln aus dem Völker- und
Europarecht") is "a database for research of articles and decisions
in public international law and European law". The database "it
is almost complete as concerns German legal periodicals, and contains a
number of widely disseminated non-German periodicals" (you can look
at the list of the covered periodicals). RAVE permits research in English,
French and German. Have a look at the Manual
in order to know how you may research for articles and decisions in your
specific field of interest. Take into account that RAVE covers from 1995
onwards and does not provide the full texts of articles and decisions.
However, it goes without saying that it is a very useful service.
Rechtsprechung
des Europäischen Gerichtshofes - Case-law in German only.
Realité Européenne
- This monthly monitors EC legislation and case-law (full text in French).
You can use a well organized index. Highly recommended.
RTD Info
- This newsletter (in English, French and German) provides information
updates about the Community research programmes.
Single
Market News - Bimonthly newsletter from DGXV, aimed at business, consumers
and all those interested in the Single Market.
Supreme Court International
Bulletin - At this
page you can subscribe the SCIB, wich "provides free weekly HTML summaries
of judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Communities"
(as well as of the following Courts: US Supreme Court, Canada Supreme Court,
House of Lords, Australia High Court). You can also consult the Bulletin
Archive.
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