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Public Courses

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ASLIB TRAINING: PUBLIC COURSES (BUSINESS & OFFICIAL INFORMATION SOURCES)

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European Union Legal Information: An overview

The course will cover the full range of EU legislation ranging from Treaties to pre-legislative progress. It will include how to find out how a particular Directive has been implemented in any specific member state. For case law, it will take a look at the European Court of Justice, Court of First instance. Other related information will also be covered including merger decisions and tender notices.

Programme Features:

  • Introduction
    • What is Celex?
    • Where can key EU information be found?
    • Eur-Lex
  • Legislation
    • Treaties
    • Secondary legislation
    • Celex numbers
    • How to check for amendments and implementation date
    • Consolidated versions
    • National implementation of Directives
    • ComDocs/Green Papers & pre-legislative progress
  • EU Case Law
    • Official Law Report series of Europe
    • CFI and ECJ
    • Difference between Opinion and Judgment
    • Language availability
    • Curia website for recent decisions
    • How to find status if you only have the case number and it hasn't been reported
  • Other EU materials
    • Tender documents
    • Merger control decisions
  • Conclusion

Why you should attend:
This course is aimed at those who may or may have worked with legal information for sometime, but now need to get to know more about EU case law and legislation. This course is ideal for someone who may not have the time to spend an entire day going in-depth on the topic, but wants to get a quick essence of what the materials are and where they can find them.
Note: each stage will include examples of where to find the relevant materials

On completing the course, you will:

  • have an increased awareness of the different stages of legislation
  • be aware of the basic sources (both paper and Internet)
BOOK THIS COURSE NOW



28 March 2008 - afternoon
4 July 2008 - afternoon
14 November 2008 - afternoon

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Course Director:
Fiona Durrant

Time:
14.00-17.00

Your investment:
£150 plus VAT (£176.25) Aslib Corporate Members/ £187.50 plus VAT (£220.31) Non Members

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