European Union Research

HOME - EUROPA website, the European Union's official website, a "web portal to a vast amount of information concerning the European Union, its institutions, and its policies. The researcher can find most of the associated EU websites through links to EUROPA:" http://europa.eu.int/

Ø EUR-LEX, European Union Law website available at http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/
EUR-LEX is the web portal to European Law on the Internet. EUR-LEX links to the Official Journal of the European Communities. The OJ is the "central gazette of EC and EU legal information. Published every business day, the OJ is made up of two series: The "L" series contains final legislative acts; the "C" series contains information and notices, legislative proposals, European Parliament resolutions, etc." EUR-LEX also links to Treaties, Legislation, Legislation in preparation, Case-law, Parliamentary questions, and Documents of public interest:

Ø EU ACTIVITIES website available at http://europa.eu.int/pol/index-en.htm The various activities of the EU are divided into thirty separate subject areas, each presenting the EU’s policy in a specific area.

*Institutions*	*Advisory bodies*
European Parliament (EUROPARL) available at http://www.europarl.eu.int/home/default_en.htm	European Economic and Social Committee http://www.esc.eu.int
Council of the European Union available at http://ue.eu.int/en/summ.htm	Committee of the Regions http://www.cor.eu.int/
European Commission available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm
Court of justice of the European Union available at http://curia.eu.int/en/index.htm	*Interinstitutional bodies*
European Court of Auditors available at http://www.eca.eu.int/EN/menu.htm	Office for Official Publications of the European Communities http://publications.eu.int
European Ombudsman available at http://www.euro-ombudsman.eu.int/


*Financial bodies*
European Central Bank available at http://www.ecb.int/	*Decentralised bodies of the European Union* *(agencies)*
European Investment Bank available at http://www.eib.eu.int/
European Investment Fund available at http://www.eif.org/	Agencies of the European Community available at http://europa.eu.int/agencies/index_en.htm
	Common Foreign and Security Policy available at http://europa.eu.int/agencies_cfsp/index_en.htm
	Police and Judicial Cooperation in criminal matters available at http://europa.eu.int/agencies_jha/index_en.htm

Ø EU AT A GLANCE website available at http://europa.eu.int/abc/index_en.htm
"The EU is a family of democratic European countries, committed to working together for peace and prosperity. It is not a State intended to replace existing states, but it is more than any other international organization. The EU is in fact unique." This site links to information on New Member States, Applicant Countries, Maps, Traveling Information, Flag, Anthem, an EU Glossary, and much more.

Ø EUROPEAN COMMISSION: "The European Commission embodies and upholds the general interest of the Union and is the driving force in the Union's institutional system. Its four main roles are to propose legislation to Parliament and the Council, to administer and implement Community policies, to enforce Community law (jointly with the Court of Justice) and to negotiate international agreements, mainly those relating to trade and cooperation. "
Official documents available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/off/index_en.htm

Ø ECLAS database (Articles, etc.) is the European Commission union catalog which references the holdings of a network of libraries. The ECLAS website, along with the Central Library, is available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/libraries/bibliotheques_en.htm