European Union Research: A Beginner's Guide

Available in PDF format from 1999 onwards.

Includes COM final documents (formal proposals for new legislation) since 1984.

Includes selected COM docs, but many do not include explanatory memoranda.

Includes Common Positions, press releases, and Council minutes. Coverage is from January 1999 onwards; many documents are not available in full-text and must be requested through the web-site. Prior to 1999, most Council documents were kept confidential.

Some Council documents, including many “Common Positions” are included in the C Series of the OJ.

Includes documents produced and recieved by the European Parliament, including reports, motions for resolutions, agendas, debates, minutes, texts adopted. Contains documents in the public domain since Dec. 3, 2001 and some older documents (mostly Committee reports).

Contains all ongoing parliamentary procedures irrespective of when they began and all procedures concluded since July 1994. Covers legislative, budgetary and internal parliamentary procedures such as co-decision, consultation, and assent procedures, own-initiative reports, and resolutions and recommendations adopted by the European Parliament. Includes a legislative tracker so that you can track any new developments in subjects or procedures of your choice. Free registration.