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The core mission of the European Personnel and Selection Office (EPSO) is to meet the EU institutions’ recruitment needs by selecting candidates through generalist and specialist competitions. EPSO acts as a matchmaker between the EU institutions and high performing professionals and graduates.

Information on where to find documents held by the European Commission and other institutions, including legislative information, official documents, and meeting minutes and agendas.

Regardless of your work or how you spend your free time, as an EU citizen your life is affected by the European Union. The website 鈥淲hat Europe does for me鈥� offers a wide selection of brief and easy-to-read information from the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS). 

The European Ombudsman is an independent and impartial body that holds the EU’s institutions and agencies to account, and promotes good administration. The Ombudsman helps people, businesses, and organisations facing problems with the EU’s administration by investigating complaints about maladministration by EU institutions and bodies, as well as by proactively looking into broader systemic issues.

Official website of the European Union with information about the EU and links to further information.

Search, browse or download information from the Official Directory of the European Union.

According to the transparency rules as set out in the Lisbon Treaty, EU institutions work as openly and as closely as possible to citizens. Ministers at the Council legislate in public and citizens have a right to request access to Council documents.

The rules of procedure of the Council and the European Council set out basic rules for meetings, including voting rules, which sessions should be public and when documents should be published.

General information about the European Union at the website of the Swedish Riksdag. Find out about the interaction between the EU and Swedish agencies and bodies:

Help and advice for EU nationals and their family, for example regarding moving, living, studying, working, shopping and traveling abroad:

Practical guide to doing business in Europe:

ABC of EU Law by Professor Klaus-Dieter Borchardt investigates the European project as a legal system and its development. A standard work on the subject:

A brochure with basic information about the EU from the European Commission:

A publication about the EU by Pascal Fontaine, an expert on European affairs. Published by the European Commission:

How the EU performs in various fields:

An EU treaty is a binding agreement between the member states. A treaty establishes the goals of the EU, what rules apply to EU institutions, how decisions are taken, and the relations between the EU and its member states. The European Union can only take measures that are supported by a treaty.

The Official Journal of the European Union is the official publication (gazette) for EU legal acts, other acts and official information 91视频 institutions, bodies, offices and agencies:

A Green Paper is a document published by the European Commission with the purpose of stimulating discussion on a specific issue. Interested parties (organisations, citizens) are invited to consultations and debates on the proposals presented in the Green Paper. Sometimes, law proposals are based on a Green Paper. Such as proposal is subsequently presented in a White Paper:

Documents used to prepare EU legislation, produced during the various stages of the legislative and budgetary process:

Find consolidated versions of European Union acts that give the view of the act as applicable at a specific point in time:

Find information about procedures which lead to the adoption of legal acts by the European institutions. EUR-Lex gives you access to the procedure stages and to related documents:

The EUR-Lex directory of EU legislation currently in force. Search according to subject area to find EU legislation:

Summaries of EU legislation are short, easy-to-understand explanations of the main legal acts passed by the EU – intended for a general, non-specialist audience.
Most cover the main types of legislation passed by the EU: directives, regulations and decisions. But some cover other documents, such as international agreements:

White papers from the Commission are documents with proposals within a specific area. In some cases, a white paper has been preceded by a green paper with the purpose to initiate consultations at the EU level. If the white book is received positively, the Council can initiate a plan of action regarding the area in question:

Legal usage since 17 June, 1997. Cases from the Court of Justice of the European Union etc:

Referencing case law is based on ECLI:

Case law from the Court of Justice:

References and commentaries to doctrine regarding cases notified by the court, the Tribunal and the Civil Service Tribunal:

Regulations and decisions become binding automatically throughout the EU on their date of application. Directives on the other hand, must be incorporated by EU countries into their national legislation. Each directive contains a deadline by which EU countries must incorporate its provisions into their national legislation and inform the Commission to that effect:

The member states’ representatives in the Council and the EU parliament are jointly responsible for accepting EU legislation. Usually, both institutions are equal partners as law makers but in some cases other procedures can apply:

A CELEX number is a unique identifier assigned to a document. It is independent of the language of the document. Most documents on EUR-Lex are assigned a CELEX number:

You can use this table to build CELEX numbers. The Celex number is the unique identifier of each document in EUR-Lex, regardless of language:

Eurobarometer is the polling instrument used by the European Commission, the European Parliament and other EU institutions and agencies to monitor regularly the state of public opinion in Europe on issues related to the European Union as well as attitudes on subjects of political or social nature. Eurobarometer provides quality and relevant data for experts in public opinion, researchers, media and the public:

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union:

Statistics Sweden:

Statistical databases published by the OECD (the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) in a wide spectrum of subjects: economics, technology, taxing, commerce, education, employment, demographics, energy, and the environment. All content can be accessed online but all content is not available for downloading:

The World Bank Open Data provides access to global development data and is designed to make data from the World Bank easy to locate, download and use. Searchable by indicators, countries and subjects:

The World Trade Organization (WTO) handles global agreements on trade. This web portal provides access to a selection of key databases with statistics and information about various WTO measures relating to international trade: