Dear Colleagues,
PreLex, the database for monitoring the decision making process between EU
institutions, is now available on the Internet at:
http://europa.eu.int/prelex/rech_simple.cfm?CL=en.
This is the address of the English search screen, but PreLex is also
available in all 11 official EU languages.
PreLex replaces the APC database which disappeared when the CAA access was
closed at the end of 1999. Since the new database is web-based and free of
charge, it should attract more users than its predecessor. It will be
interesting to compare it with the Legislative Observatory, the EP database
which serves a very similar function.
There seems at the moment to be no explanatory page giving information
about the scope, period covered, updating frequency and so on, but maybe
this will be added later. Signposting to PreLex from other parts of Europa
will also follow later, I expect.
Within each record, links are provided to relevant documents on other sites
(e.g. OJ on EUR-Lex, EP reports on Europarl, Bulletin of the EU). I find
the OJ links frustrating, since if the OJ is more than 45 days old, you
simply get a EUR-Lex page saying that it is no longer available there. But
that's a minor criticism, perhaps. It would be interesting to have other
people's reactions to PreLex.
Comments and suggestions about PreLex should be sent to:
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Regards,
Chris Lamb
Documentation Officer
Technical Assistance Office
Euro Info Centre Network
70 rue Montoyer
B-1000 Bruxelles
Tel: +32 2 287 1553
Fax: +32 2 230 0520
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