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Enrichment of collections
the enrichment of collections is the result of requests from users. tables
and annexes of legislative acts are available in PDf if they were published after
1998, but they are not available in htmL. On the basis of the versions available
in XmL since 2004, we should be able to offer tables and annexes of legislative
acts in 2007.
Images also appear in court decisions, speciically in intellectual property
and trademark cases: not seeing the image impedes full understanding of the
case. EUR-Lex will process images in documents of the European Courts as
from 2007.
Although the Oficial Journal has been available online since 1998, the OJ
tables have not been used in EUR-Lex. they are quite an interesting instrument
on paper, but an even more interesting instrument if used electronically.
they offer information and possibilities to cross information and make documents
available from another point of view.
Press releases related to documents of the European Court should be included
in the LexAlert notiication system. Even if they will not be available
through EUR-Lex search functionalities, they can be assimilated to a way of
disseminating legal information that is closer to the citizen, just as a future
summary of legislative acts for citizens could be for legislation. Just note that
the Court does not issue press releases for all judgments or opinions: they refer
only to the most important judgments.
Consolidated legislative texts have been made available in PDf through
EUR-Lex, but they have never been loaded in htmL. the whole collection is
available in XmL format in-house and using it in EUR-Lex would give a new
dimension to the dissemination of consolidated legislative texts which represent
Sector 0 in EUR-Lex: they would be indexed and also belong to extractions
for licence holders.
Further developments
As to further developments in 2007, only three elements will be mentioned
here.
the longer-term intention is to give early access to all acts belonging to the
legislative procedure. EUR-Lex already gives access to COm documents. these
are mostly Commission legislative initiatives, but they are now often accompagnied
by SEC documents which contain impact assessments: the main role
of those documents is to demonstrate the implementation of the Lisbon strat-
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