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EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex is the official online portal to EU law, run by the Publications Office of the European Union, giving free access to the Official Journal, legislation, case law and preparatory acts.
The EUR-Lex legal notice allows reuse of the legal documents it publishes, including commercially, with acknowledgement of the source; it applies the Commission’s reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU). CJEU case law is reused under the CURIA copyright notice.
Arieta Data’s EU lane is built from EUR-Lex and from Cellar, the Publications Office repository behind it.
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Cellar
Cellar is the Publications Office of the European Union’s semantic repository that stores EU publications and their metadata and feeds EUR-Lex; it exposes SPARQL and REST interfaces.
CELEX number
A CELEX number is the unique document identifier EUR-Lex assigns to every EU legal document, encoding its sector, year, document type and sequence number.
Official Journal of the European Union
The Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) is the EU’s gazette; since 1 July 2013 its electronic edition is the authentic, legally binding publication of EU legislation.
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