| Author (Person) | Hudson, Grace |
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| Publisher | Chadwyck-Healey |
| Series Title | Developments in European Information Issues |
| Publication Date | 22/12/2000 |
| Content Type | News |
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End of one Presidency, start of the next The IGC 2000 negotiations were brought to a conclusion at the European Council in Nice with agreement on the Treaty of Nice. A draft English language version can be found at http://ue.eu.int/cig/nice/niceen.asp?lang=en/. The conclusions of the European Council are available as a pdf file at http://europa.eu.int/council/off/conclu/dec2000/index.htm/. With the end of the French Presidency the baton passes to Sweden from 1 January 2001. The new Presidency website is already open at http://www.eu2001.se/ and poised to chart the next stages of development. EUR-Lex restructuring Changes have been made to the Preparatory Acts section of EUR-Lex, dividing it into two sections named “Legislation in Preparation” and “Documents of Public Interest”. The new section “Documents of Public Interest” contains the COM documents which are not legislative proposals such as White and Green papers, Reports and Communications. The legislative proposals will fall into the other section. Those who have established links to documents from other sites will be pleased to learn that no changes will be required. It is worth noting again that links are established from Prelex to available documents in EUR-Lex and elsewhere, so if you are searching for information on the stages of the decision-making process you can move directly to the full text of the various documents. An extension of the EUR-Lex service is currently being tested and is expected to go live next year. Instead of logging in to EUR-Lex to check the contents of the latest OJ, it will be possible to receive the Table of Contents automatically by e-mail as an attached html file. Links to the full text in pdf are available, including the text of the OJ C E series. The system appears to be stable under test and works efficiently, so hopefully it will not be long before this becomes widely available. It is likely, though not yet confirmed, that the service will be free. |
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| Subject Categories | Culture, Education and Research |
