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the CELEX number is, in its default format, made
up of information concerning the type of document and
the collection it belongs to, its year and natural number,
and serves as a unique identiier across all sectors and
document types within the EUR-Lex system.
the heading ‘Search by publication reference’ also
allows for the narrowing down of a query to retrieve
only one single document, but is limited to the documents
published in the Official Journal of the European Union
or the European Court of Justice’s Court Reports. the details needed to
perform such a search by publication reference include, for the Oficial Journal,
the year, the OJ series (L for ‘Legislation’ or C for ‘Information and Notices’) as
well as the number of the irst page of the document and inally either the exact
date of the OJ or its number.
for the European Court Reports, the year and the page number together
with a selection of the volume (Court of Justice, Court of first Instance, Staff
Cases) are necessary to limit the result to a single document.
1.2. Search options for a set of documents
the most simple and, one might wrongly assume, maybe least interesting
solution to retrieve a well-deined set of documents in EUR-Lex is to combine
several simple searches for a single document, e.g. by CELEX number. however,
this approach comes with the big beneit of being very convenient to the
user.
the irst practical example introduces three individual queries for codiication
projects.
‘Codiication is the process that brings together the provisions of existing
acts with all of their subsequent amendments into one law’ (cf. COm(2006)
689, p. 7) and must not be confused with consolidation, the result of which
only serves information purposes and is not legally binding.
the starting point for the codiication process is a draft for a codiied version,
which is provided for by the Commission, and which represents a new
document type, which recently had to be introduced into the collections covered
by EUR-Lex. the Commission aims at inishing the work on a total of
500 such codiication projects up until 2008, out of which a test set has already
been delivered to the Publications Ofice to be loaded into the EUR-Lex
database.
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