The Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) is the official companion of EU

legislation and other official documents of the EU institutions, bodies and

agencies. It is published every day from Tuesday to Saturday in the official
languages of EU and is available in different formats.

The L series contains mainly secondary legislation, such as regulations, directives,

decisions, and recommendations. When you refer to the journal, you're writing in
a certain way. Looking at an example, you see the abbreviation, OJ followed by
series of numbers, date, and pages. You can find out more about how to write a
cite in the institutional style guide published in the publication office. The C series
contains information from the main institutions like notices, guidelines,
announcements, resolutions, opinions, joint declarations, preparatory acts, and
summaries of judgments.

This is a notice from the commission about definition relevant to market. The
cases are published in European Court Reports, abbreviated to ECR, this is the
official version of the cases.

The report was published in print until 2012. After that, the report is only
published in a digital version.

The official name is Report of cases before the Court of Justice and the General
Court. It contains judgments from the Court of Justice, General Court, and Civil
Service Tribunal. It also contains opinions and orders. For a long time, it has been
recommended to refer to a case by giving the reference to the report of cases like
this. Since 2014, the recommendation is to refer to a case with a combination of
the usual name of the case, the number in the register, case number, and the
Eckley number and a paragraph.

All documents are easy to find in the legal database of EUR-Lex. It is a database
free online available in all official languages. The database is updated everyday. In
EUR-Lex you find official journal. Note that since the first of July 2013, the
electronic edition of the Official Journal in EUR-Lex is the authentic one.
EU, including consolidated legislation, preparatory acts, and legislative history, EU
case law, ECR in pdf, From 1970 international agreements and other official
documents.

EUR-Lex entrance page gives you access to search by document number here, or
quick search box which is often enough to be able to find what you need. If
necessary, you can get much more options. This could be useful when you get too
many results. More possibilities to limit your search and be more specific.

The latest news are published every day. Doing a search you will receive the result
in the middle of the page. They are often quite of lot of matches, and they refine
search query Is helpful. You're gonna find domain, sub-domain, year, type of
procedure, author or type of act.

Another database that is useful, you find on the webpage of the Court of Justice
of the European Union. It is available for free in every official language. It contains
the case from, the Court of Justice to General court and the Civil service Tribunal,
the opinions from the Advocate General, notes from the Academic Writings, and
press releases about new cases. On the entrance page of the data base, you find
the search fields for case number, parties, and dates. There is also an option to
use advanced search, which you will find behind the button. The press releases
are over here.

What would you not find in the Curia database? Cases from the European Court of
Human Rights.

Finally there is a huge website of the European Union, where you can find very
many relevant documents. The European Union has a tradition of publishing
nearly everything online. Their website is translated into every official language.
All the institutions have their own homepages. Those are mainly in English,
German or French. One important part of the Europa website is the news room.
In the press release database you can search for news and some commission
decisions and you will find in this database.
The database is in our link list. All the news has a number which look in a certain
way. If you have a reference that looks like this, it is a press release from the
commission.

Another way of entering the webpages is to enter by topic. This is the way to find
information from all EU institutions within a specific topic. Go, for example, to the
single market and look at the commission web page. It's an important web page
with a lot of relevant information. Searching the web page is both time consuming
and confusing. Many times the pages are and the structure is not always easy to
understand. It could be much more useful to use a search engine like for example,
Bing, Google, or Safari and write the site you want to search and then words
describing your search.