Official Journal of the European Union and EUR-Lex
Official Journal of the European Union
The authoritative source of EU law
The Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) is the only periodical published every working day in all official languages of the European Union (EU).
It is published in several formats: you can subscribe to a daily paper edition, an offline edition on a CD Rom or you can access it online via EUR-Lex.
EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex gives comprehensive access to European law. It provides a convenient means for consulting the Official Journal of the European Union online, the treaties, the legislation in force, the document series of the European Commission, the case-law of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance and the collection of consolidated legislation. It also provides links to other sources of information such as the registers of the institutions and other legislative sites of the EU and the Member States.
EUR-Lex offers harmonised search functions with the sophisticated search facilities of CELEX fully integrated to provide in-depth documentary and legal analysis. There is free access to all types of document (formats: HTML, PDF, Word and TIF) and in all 23 languages where available.

7 times a week
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once a week
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each working day
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in an online format
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on a CD Rom
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searching a particular document in EUR-Lex
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subscribing to OJ
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you want to choose a particular format of the document (HTML, PDF, Word, TIF)
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- what the Official Journal of the European Union is and why it is useful for translators
- what the relation between the OJ and the EUR-Lex is
- that the CELEX number is useful when searching for a particular document