Official Journal of the European Union

• regulations;
• directives;
• decisions;
• recommendations;
• opinions.

In addition, the Directory of Community legislation in force is published as part of the OJ Lseries. This directory lists references to the initial texts and to any subsequent amendments. It also includes references to agreements made and conventions signed by the European Union in the framework of external relations, binding acts under the EU Treaties, complementary acts, such as those of the Council of Ministers and Heads of State or Government, and other non-binding acts which are relevant for the institutions.

• summaries of judgments of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance;
• minutes of parliamentary meetings;
• reports of the Court of Auditors;
• parliamentary written questions and answers from the Council or Commission;
• statements from the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions;
• competition notices for recruitment by the EU institutions (if you are interested only in these notices, there is a special subscription — see price list);
• calls for expressions of interest for EU programmes and projects;
• other documents published pursuant to Community legislation;
• public contracts for food aid;
• the table of contents of the OJ CE series.

The CE series currently contains the preparatory acts in the legislative process and is only available in the EUR-Lex database or in the monthly CD-ROM edition.

The S series is the supplement to the OJ containing invitations to tender in the following sectors:

• public contracts for works, supplies and services from all EU Member States;
• utilities contracts (water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors);
• public contracts from EU institutions;
• European Development Fund contracts (ACP countries);
• Phare, Tacis and other contracts from central and eastern Europe;
• European Investment Bank, European Central Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development financed projects;
• European Economic Area contracts (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein);
• contracts pursuant to the agreement on government procurement (GPA), concluded within the framework of the GATT/World Trade Organisation (WTO), from Switzerland;
• notices concerning European economic interest groups (EEIGs);
• public contracts for air services.

A daily paper edition

You can take out an annual subscription (700–800 issues) or order individual copies. If you start a subscription during the course of a calendar year, you can either pay pro rata for the remaining months of the annual subscription or receive all back issues on CD-ROM at a supplementary cost.

For subscriptions or single copies, please contact our sales network . Certain specialised annexes are available to subscribers on request at no extra charge.

An off-line edition

The CD-ROM edition offers a convenient archive of information published in the OJ Land C series. It also includes OJ CE material, not published in the paper edition.

The CD-ROM, derived from the EUR-Lex service, is a monthly, cumulative, monolingual edition. It contains the OJ table of contents in HTML format and the OJ contents in PDF format. Via the CD-ROM, you can search for any OJ L, C or CE text published in the year to date, whether stored on the CD-ROM or more recently on the Internet site. The annual collection includes all the OJ issues for a given year.

For subscriptions or single copies, please contact our sales network.

System requirements

• Microsoft Windows 95/ME/2000/XP NT version 4.0 or higher 24 MB RAM
• Apple Power PC requires MacOS 7.5 or higher, Open Transport 1.11 or higher 16 MB RAM
• Internet browser supporting HTML , version 3.2 TCP/IP protocol installed
• Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3.0 or higher

Online services

EUR-Lex ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu ) offers a comprehensive access to European Union legal texts such as the Official Journal of the European Union, the Treaties, the legislation in force, the documents series of the European Commission, the case-law of the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance and the collection of consolidated legislation.

The Official Journal of the European Union is easily consultable with the daily editions online every morning.

EUR-Lex data are also available under licence from third parties. The licence holder may deliver the licensed information as a product or a service. A complete list of licence holders is available on request (e-mail: licences@publications.europa.eu ).

CD-ROM / OJS

The CD-ROM edition is published twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday, and carries as many as 750 invitations to tender a day. As a cumulative and multilingual edition, it contains the last five issues of the OJ S, and the corresponding 'family documents'.

A search engine with drop-down index lists offers easy selection of geographical data and classification codes. Multiple search profiles can be stored for repeated use.

The twice-weekly edition can be obtained by annual subscription. Single copies are also available against payment. Use of the CD-ROM in a LAN (local area network) is free.

For subscriptions and single issues, please contact our sales network .

System requirements

Operating System:
- PC: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP or higher
- Linux distributions Red Hat 8.0 or higher and SuSE 8.0 or higher
- Mac: MacOS X or higher

Browser: MSIE 5.0 or higher; Netscape 4.7.2 or higher

Online database

A daily updated online edition is available in the TED database ( http://ted.europa.eu/ ). Access to TED is free of charge.

In addition to current tenders, the TED database gives access to the archives for the past five years of the S series in English. A single search interface allows the user to select or to enter multiple search criteria, including geographical data, type of document, nature of contract, keywords and more.

TED licensed products and services

TED data are also available under licence from third parties. The licence holder may deliver the licensed information as a product or a service. A complete list of licence holders is available on request (e-mail: licences@publications.europa.eu ).

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EU Law:

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Tenders:

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• SIMAP
• Our tenders

EU Directory:

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