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The Official Journal: The Official Journal is the EU equivalent to the U.S. Government's "Federal Register". The L (Legislation) and C (Information and Notices) series of the Official Journal appear daily in the 20 official languages of the European Union.

Legislation in force: The texts are arranged under twenty main chapter headings.  Legislation relating to agriculture, biotechnology, organic farming, foodstuffs, etc. can be found under heading 03 "Agriculture" and heading 15 "Environment, Consumers and Health Protection".  An alphabetical index using keywords is also available.  On this site you can find the initial legislation and all the amendments as published in the Official Journal.

Preparatory Acts: List of Commission Proposals that have not yet been adopted and links to documents of other European Institutions that take part in the development of Community legislation.

Treaties: Consolidated texts of treaties and treaties in the process of ratification are available.

Case Law: Recent case-law of the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance is available.

EU Legislation: Process and Players

Sales Offices:

Subscriptions and paper editions of the Official Journal can also be obtained from one of the sales offices. The list of sales offices is available at the Internet at http://publications.europa.eu/others/sales_agents_en.html.