The Gazette 1992

GAZETTE

APRIL 1992

the indexes published with the volumes of Reports, indexes published by the Court, our own in- house index to the transcripts, the Gazetteer of European Law and the Common Market Reporter encyclopaedia which contains the EuropeanCommunity Cases series. Computerised Databases The library has access to CELEX, the Commission's official computerised on-line database which contains all the legislation (other than measures of short duration), mostly in full text form though some by short reference only, and all the case law as published in the EuropeanCourt Reports, as well as a good deal of other official material. The library subscribes to the LEXIS database which contains the full text of the European Court Reports, the Common Market Law Reports and the legislation section of CELEX from 1980 to date. Some queries are more suited to computer than to manual searching. For example, the request mentioned above for a list of all the cases on the Lomé Conventions was answered by doing a search for the term "Lomé" in the Reports section of CELEX. If this term had located too large a number of case reports, it could have been modified by linking it with another appropriate search term. As it happened, 24 cases were found by the first search and titles, summaries and citations were printed out. Another recent example of the use of CELEX was a search for the term "spring water" in the legislation section. TWo occurrences of the term were found and the titles of the documents and the references were printed out and checked. The enquirer wanted to know if there was a definition of "spring water" as distinct from "natural water" in any regulation or directive. The information on a particular regulation or directive on CELEX includes a section listing earlier

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articles on UK and Irish law also include references to EC law and its application. Journal articles are located using Legal Journals Index and European Access. Current awareness The daily news bulletin Agence Europe is received and is scanned by the editor of Eurlegal News. It is available for consultation in the library. The Bulletin of the EuropeanCommunities published by the Commission is a useful source for recent legislative developments.

measures which it modifies and later measures which have in turn modified it. Information on amending measures is also contained in Butterworths European CommunitiesLegislation: Current Status. (A fuller description of these computerised databases will be given in a later article). Textbooks, Encyclopaedias, Journals Commentaries on the law are the starting point for research on a subject. The library has CCH's Common Market Reporter, referred to above, Vaughan's Encyclopaedia of European Community Law and Myles' EC Brief Copies of the main textbooks on the institutions and on the substantive law are held and also the leading journals on EC law. Of course, many textbooks and journal

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