NATIONAL IMPLEMENTING MEASURES

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OJ OnlinePlus provides references, when they have been made available by the member states, to national legislation implementing EU directives. A directive is binding on Member States as regards the objective to be achieved but leaves to national authorities the choice of form and methods used to attain the objective. The official documentation service of the EU (Celex) aims to reflect some aspects of this interaction between Community law and national law by providing publication references to Member States' national provisions enacting Community directives and ECSC recommendations. The creation of a directive or ECSC recommendation in the database is systematically followed by the addition of the corresponding Celex, Sector 7 document. (This file is updated on a monthly (sometimes irregular) basis as each Member State is responsible for supplying references to its own implementing legislation to the Commission.) The Secretariat-General monitors the application of community law.

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• In the full text display of a directive you can view national measures implementing the EU directive by clicking the tab. This opens a display listing the measures per country if they have been submitted and added to the Celex database.
• Use Search all - Advanced search to directly retrieve national implementing measures for a particular directive, e.g. Type search field: national implementing measures and 2006/14.