The strategies discussed below can also be used to find regulations, decisions and other legal acts.
Adopted Directives
EUR-Lex: Legal Acts
Search page for legal acts. Also includes links to a page showing recently-published legislation and to the Directory of Legal Acts (a browsable and searchable subject index).
European Commission: Press Corner
Covers activities of the EU as presented by the various institutions in their press releases; includes options to view daily news, recent press releases, and to search by keyword and categories.
EUR-Lex: Summaries of EU Legislation
Offers more than 2000 summaries of various pieces of EU legislation; full-text searchable and browsable by subject.
Proposed Directives
Proposals for directives are either identified by topic or, if amending an existing directive, by directive number.
EUR-Lex: Lawmaking Procedures
Search page for locating legislation through the various stages of the lawmaking process as it bounces from one institution to another. This should include all Commission proposals along with their transmissions to the Council of the EU or the European Parliament.