ADVANCED SEARCH

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Advanced search forms provide a wide range of relevant and changeable search fields linked by boolean operators for expert searching the whole database or for searching specific parts of the database, e.g.

• Search all - Advanced search contains all search fields, shortcuts to the Courts' diary, Nicknames and Treaties in pdf plus it provides an EU Wordnet multi-lingual thesaurus from the LOIS project.
• Official Journal - Advanced search contains all the relevant search fields for accessing Official Journal records.

Search tips

• OJ OnlinePlus is not case sensitive.
• Windows copy & paste functionality (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) can be used in the search form.
• Select required search fields from the pull down menu. » Search field examples
• Search fields are linked with Boolean operators located to the left of the field name.
• Open EU Wordnet to locate a legal term in a different language.
• Open to select your search term or phrase.
• A search term can be any word, phrase or number which may be linked together by Boolean operators, e.g. transport and hazardous waste
• You can use wildcards to find variants of words or to substitute a single letter, e.g. liab* or wom?n
• Dates must be entered in the format yyyy-mm-dd. You can use date operators in Date / Year search field for date range searching, e.g. >1999, 1990-04-30~1993-04-30
• To clear the search form in order to start a new search click the button.
• When you have finished using OJ OnlinePlus remember to log off so that your colleagues can access the database when you have completed your search. If you do not correctly log off but exit by closing the browser your session will remain active until the 30-minute automatic log off.

 

SEARCH FIELD DESCRIPTIONS

Please refer to the list below for a description and examples of all the search fields found in the Advanced search forms.

Authoring Institution

The name of the Institution responsible for a record, e.g.

• Commission
• Court of Justice

Note: This field also contains the Names of the country signing a Treaty or an agreement, e.g. Netherlands, Switzerland. If all Member States have signed then “The Member States” or “The Nine* Member States” is entered. (* Number changes according to the number of Member States.) Names of Committees or the Section dealing with the matter for acts issued by the European European Parliament or the Economic and Social Committee.

Case citations

The CELEX numbers of acts/case decisions cited in the Judgment or AG opinion (seen in Full analytical), e.g.

• 695J0001
• 389D0147

Case law & legislation

This field links legislation that is directly affected by a court decision and the text of that court decision. Enter the legislation number or the case number in CELEX number format, e.g.

• 379L0112 - retrieves all court decisions in which Directive 79/112 is cited and the directive itself
• 689J0369 - retrieves legislation, treaty articles that are cited plus the judgment C-369/89

Note: Court decisions can also be viewed from the full text display when the court decisions tab is activated or by changing the text view to Full analytical display. » More information

Case number

The case number as quoted in the text or title, e.g.

• 234/86 - for cases before 1990
• C-26/91 - for cases since 1990 from the Court of Justice
• T-56/92 - for cases since 1990 from the Court of First Instance

Catch words

Keywords and phrases allocated to Judgments. These describe very concisely the questions of law covered in a case, e.g.

• water pollution
• directive 76/464/EEC

CELEX number

This is often referred to as a DOC.NUM. It refers to the document number used in the CELEX database – the Official Legal database of the European Communities, e.g. the CELEX number for a Judgment is 699J010 » More information

CELEX sector

This allows you to select the CELEX sector you would like to search by number, sector or a combination, e.g.

• 1 - treaties
• preparatory

Citations

All numerical citations to documents made in a record, e.g.

• 95/C100/09 - OJ notice
• A5-0001/2002 - for a report
• C-1/91 - for a case

Concerns

This field contains the document numbers of the acts quoted in the operative part of Court decisions, e.g.

• 385R1999
• ec treaty article 10
• 1999/85

Cross reference

This fields gives a very broad search. It links related documents using CELEX numbers. Enter, in CELEX number format, the number of the legislation you are interested in and a search will retrieve all related records, ie: records that it modifies or that modify it and records with the legislation as the legal base or that cite it in the text, e.g. 379L0112

Dates

A group index containing all possible date fields: Date of document, Date of publication, Date lodged, Date inforce, Date of judgment, End of validity, in the format yyyy-mm-dd (you can use date operators for date range searching, e.g. 1998-04-31~1999-04-31)

Document number

This field is very useful to quickly retrieve a document when you know a reference number and the form it is cited, e.g.

• 79/112 – for Directive 79/112/EEC
• 1042/75 – for Regulation No. 1042/75
• 90/234 – for Decision 90/234/ECSC
• C-23/91 – for Case C-23/91
• com 93 23 – for COM(93) 23
• M.2533 – for Merger decision No IV/M.2533

Earlier Acts

This field contains, in CELEX number format, earlier acts prior to the decision process, ie: all legal acts a proposal seeks to modify, e.g. 596PC0603

ECR Reference

Publication references to European Court Reports by year, part and page number, e.g. 1999 ECR I-1075

Free text

Any word or phrase in the title and text of a document. Legislation and case numbers can also be searched in the same format as found in the Official Journal, e.g.

• C-34/91
• milk levy

Judge

Name of the Judge in a case (highlighted in Full analytical), e.g. Schockweiler

Legal base

The field contains the document numbers of the articles of treaties, directives, regulations which form the legal basis of the document, e.g.

• 197E156
• 381L0602 A07 or 381L0602*