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1. hOw DO wE <strong>EN</strong>D 2006?<br />

Expert search was made available in August and the advanced search link<br />

giving easier access to expert search has now been activitated. Expert search is<br />

not a completely new development as it was in fact cut out of CELEX and had<br />

to be reconnected with all its ‘capillarities’ to the new EUR-Lex system. Expert<br />

Search is a very potent tool, essential for specialists, in particular within the EU<br />

institutions and in national administrations.<br />

LexAlert, the system notifying new documents or information to users,<br />

has been in production for several months even if registration online is still not<br />

possible. the weak point of notiication systems is the e-mail infrastructure:<br />

the risk of the sending server being identiied as an author of spam is quite<br />

high.<br />

that is why notiication is also offered by RSS feeds: this functionality<br />

should develop in the future and might become the only one available for<br />

mass notiication.<br />

Besides linking and RSS feeds, new features for 2006 related to the reuse<br />

of data. web services have been developed and tested internally within the<br />

institutions. they allow, for example, speciic systems maintained by directorates-general<br />

of the Commission to include data from EUR-Lex as the reference<br />

database. Duplication of documents and information can thus be avoided and<br />

updating in parallel to EUR-Lex also becomes possible. web services should<br />

also interest member States, for example in a database following their own<br />

implementation of directives.<br />

traditionally, CELEX and now EUR-Lex are licensed. New formats and<br />

the new EUR-Lex allowed for new formats for licence holders, to which we<br />

added a new communication mode. An ftP store server for the licence holders<br />

was opened by mid-November and the irst extractions in XmL delivered.<br />

Since summer 2006, one main task has been preparing for enlargement.<br />

the special editions of the Official Journal of the European Union which publish<br />

oficially all acts in force on the day of accession in the languages of the new<br />

member States have also had to be available online in Bulgarian and Romanian.<br />

In addition the current editions of the Oficial Journal will have to be made<br />

available in the new languages from 1 January 2007. Developments are well<br />

under way and the results should be available in December 2006. further developments<br />

are needed for creating all browsing and search functions in the<br />

new languages and uploading documents in the new languages as soon as<br />

they are made available.<br />

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