EUR-Lex
Official EU legal database providing free public access to all EU law and regulatory texts.
EUR-Lex is the European Union's official free legal database, the authoritative published text for every regulation, directive and Court of Justice case in EU law.
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EUR-Lex is the official online portal of the European Union that provides free public access to EU law, including treaties, regulations, directives, decisions, and preparatory acts such as Commission proposals and Parliament legislative resolutions. It is operated by the Publications Office of the European Union and publishes texts in all 24 official EU languages. When a regulation is referenced in policy or litigation, the EUR-Lex entry is the legally binding version.
The portal uses the CELLAR content store and assigns each legal act a unique identifier, typically an Official Journal reference or a COM number for Commission proposals. Practitioners use its document search, consolidated text versions that integrate all amendments into a single readable text, and the ELI citation framework. EUR-Lex also publishes the electronic Official Journal, which has carried legal force equivalent to the paper version since 2013.
Energy-market reporting draws on EUR-Lex as the reference point for transposition registers and directive texts, among them The Register entries for Slovakia's and Portugal's national measures cited in this briefing's coverage of EU gas-market law.