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EUR-LEX TODAY AND TOMORROW<br />

After more historical and philosophical speeches on the development of<br />

access to law, speaking of what has been achieved recently in EUR-Lex<br />

and what is planned for 2007 is a bit like coming down to earth. But managing<br />

a database on a daily basis is down-to-earth work and it is of course a pity that<br />

we do not have more time to dream about the perfect access to European law<br />

or, more pragmatically, to make more high-lying plans for the evolution of<br />

EUR-Lex.<br />

where do we stand in November 2006? two years after the launch of the<br />

new EUR-Lex on 1 November 2004, the system has been fully stabilised in<br />

2006: users — who visit all corners and possible combinations of the system<br />

to a greater extent than we do — have helped us to ind bugs and get rid of<br />

them. EUR-Lex is working in a stable environment based on a stable infrastructure<br />

which lets us cope with increasing numbers of users. the full documentary<br />

structures have been safely kept: EUR-Lex is not only the access to<br />

documents, it is also the access to legal information, crosslinking documents<br />

and information. the documentary structure allows the constitution of networks<br />

of documents and of legal information.<br />

Different parts of the system already deal with the 23 languages which<br />

will be oficial EU languages from 1 January 2007: the provisional site, with<br />

provisional versions of documents in Bulgarian and Romanian, has been available<br />

since June 2006, the treaties are available in Irish and former editions of<br />

the Oficial Journal published in Irish since 1998 have been loaded and made<br />

available.<br />

By mid-November 2006, the number of users was around 200 000 on<br />

working days, and was increasing.<br />

the system still needs further development and the EUR-Lex team still has<br />

new ideas to implement. Some of these developments will be immediately<br />

obvious to the user, but there are also behind-the-scenes elements which are<br />

important for an appropriate management and handling of the back ofice of<br />

the database.<br />

PASCALE BERTELOOT<br />

Head of the EUR-Lex unit,<br />

Publications Office<br />

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