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Official Journal of the European Union
The Official Journal of the European Union is published daily in Luxembourg by the Office for the Official Publications of the European Communities. It is the EU's official gazette and publishes the text of legislation and other official acts of the European Union. It contains treaties, all four of the principal types of legislation, working papers, judgments of the European Court of Justice, proposals for legislation, and other official communications between EU institutions. It is now published daily in each of the twenty-one official languages of the EU.

There are six components to the Official Journal:
Legislation-L Series contains regulations and directives adopted by the Commission or the Council alone or jointly with the European Parliament. Prior to 1968, the Official Journal was not divided into the L and C series.
Communications-C Series contains nonbinding decisions of the EU institutions such as communications of the Commission on various topics, court judgments, and opinions of the Committee of the Regions and the Economic and Social Committee.
Communications-CE Series contains Commission proposals and is only published electronically, with versions available on EurLex, CELEX, Westlaw, and LexisNexis. A table of contents of the electronic CE series is published in the print C Series. This electronic-only part of the O.J. began in July 1999.
Communications-CA Series principally contains employment notices for EU institutions.
Annex-Debates contains verbatim reports of the plenary sessions of the European Parliament. The Annex-Debates ceased publication in print after the May 1999 parliamentary session.
Supplement-S Series contains notices of invitations to bid on EU funded contracts. (TED (tenders) database).

 

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