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September 2011 Sources for EU legal information Primary Sources (See also under Online resources, below) Treaties The primary legislation of the EU is the Treaties, available on EUR-Lex. HYPERLINK http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/treaties/index.htmhttp://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/treaties/index.htm Secondary legislation, draft legislation and consultative documents Some of this material is held in the EDC, adjacent to the European Union collection. (Shelfmarks for hard copy) Official Journal of the European Communities Legislation (OJ L and C series (Euro Comm 300 E61) HYPERLINK http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOIndex.do?ihmlang=enhttp://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOIndex.do?ihmlang=en Commission (COM) Documents (EC/1 per. 7 and on microfiche) HYPERLINK http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/prep/index.htmhttp://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/prep/index.htm Debates of the European Parliament (Euro Comm 300 E30 - E31and EC/3 per. 5) HYPERLINK http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/plenary.do?language=ENhttp://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/plenary.do?language=EN European Parliament reports (EC/3 per. 7) HYPERLINK http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/reports.do?language=ENhttp://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/reports.do?language=EN Links to documents for all the institutions are listed here HYPERLINK http://europa.eu/documentation/legislation/index_en.htmhttp://europa.eu/documentation/legislation/index_en.htm Cases See also Sources for EU legal information: subscription databases (Shelfmarks for hard copy) Common Market Law Reports (CMLR) 1962- (Euro Comm 100 C734) Reports of cases before the Court of Justice and Court of First Instance of the European Union (ECR) (Euro Comm 100 R313) EUR-Lex http://eur-lex.europa.eu/ Curia http://curia.europa.eu/ Online resources – free internet resources Europa - Gateway to the European Union HYPERLINK http://europa.eu/index_en.htmhttp://europa.eu/index_en.htm Foreign Commonwealth Office – Britain in the E