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Publications Ofice estimates that three categories of actions will be required: easy<br />

elements which can be implemented right away, medium-term elements which<br />

require some development, and long-term elements which might include redesigning<br />

the information structure or deeper relection before implementation.<br />

this last category might imply the ordering of a more detailed study. Besides<br />

the usability study, suggestions or requests for adaptations or changes<br />

might come from users with whom the Publications Ofice is in contact —<br />

mainly through the help desk — from the Groupe interinstitutionnel Lex (GIL),<br />

the Council working party, and from professionals encountered from time to<br />

time at conferences, fairs, etc.<br />

Further facilitating the access to legal information<br />

the ‘Directory of Community legislation in force’ has its origins in a request<br />

of the Council in the 1970s. Since the new EUR-Lex was created, the<br />

directory has been updated monthly. Its structure allows for a stable classiication<br />

of acts. within the database, preparatory acts are also classiied by the<br />

chapters and sub-chapters of the directory. this means that the available metadata<br />

allow for a directory of preparatory acts belonging to still-pending legislative<br />

procedures, which could also be updated monthly. A speciic directory of<br />

consolidated versions could present only the last available layer of consolidation,<br />

mentioning — if this were the case — the last modiier that had not yet<br />

been integrated.<br />

the last task which will be mentioned here is PreLex. By a resolution of<br />

19 December 2002, the European Parliament required a better integration of<br />

various information systems existing in the ield of law and mentioned under<br />

more (old) EUR-Lex, CELEX and PreLex. Old EUR-Lex and CELEX have now<br />

become a new integrated system. for PreLex, the Secretariat-General of the<br />

Commission decided that its core business certainly included the production<br />

of the data and the use of them internally but that the dissemination falls under<br />

the competencies of the Publications Ofice. Negotiations about the handover<br />

of the dissemination of PreLex data are under way and by the end of 2007 the<br />

public system of PreLex should be with the Publications Ofice. In addition to<br />

ensuring regular production of the dissemination data and maintenance of the<br />

system, the Publications Ofice will also begin to analyse how the PreLex data<br />

could be integrated into the existing sets of EUR-Lex metadata in order to<br />

merge EUR-Lex and PreLex, knowing that the same information on legislative<br />

procedures as today should continue to be available to the user. this would<br />

01_2007_5222_txt_ML.indd 56 6-12-2007 15:13:39

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